In Class: First Paragraph

“The Horned Bookstore”, that is what some students call the TCU bookstore, Barnes & Noble. However, not all the Barnes & Nobles around the country can be called as “The Horned Bookstore” since this special one is founded mainly for the TCU students, the “Horned Frogs”. During my one year’s experience in this country, I have already seen several Barnes & Nobles in this country; they are of different design, in different color. But this one, the particular “Horned Bookstore” has a strong distinguishing characteristic since it is TCU bookstore. When people drive by the West Berry Street, they will know that this architecture with a warming color is for TCU, when they see the classic purple logo right above the Barnes & Noble logo. Barnes & Noble are doing a good job in showing their credibility and the status of being connected to TCU.

In Class: Previous Experience on Group Workshop

In fact, I was in Miss Irvin's English 10803 class last year, so I have already experienced the group workshop. I feel ok even I am also not so excited about.
So it is hard to say whether I like it or not.
However, at that time I thought it would really help on my essay since the comments were made by my peers and their opinion might represent a great number of the readers. Their questions might be the readers questions. So everything went well and it did help on my essays.

I think if there would be a group workshop again in this class, I won't be surprised and I think I will be totally ok with that. Well, I have to say that the otomsphere will be a little bit weird when we were talking about each other's essay.

In Class: Reflecting of observation notes of my peers

As I am reading my peers' comments on my observation notes:

• I noticed that I did not pay enough attention on the smell of the bookstore, as both of my peers pointed out. Instead I put too much energy and attention on inferring the inside world of them.
• Since it was comparably silent in the bookstore, I just took down several conversations of this space.
• Even I have thought about whether there is a way to make students feel better when purchasing the textbooks, I still did not figure it out. I think that is probably because the textbooks are so expensive and myself is one of the "victims".
• My peers point out that I did not make enought ethos observations, but I do not agree on this point since I have already pointed it out in the inference part of my Aug 27's note.
• From their comments, I can see that they were satisfied with my analysis in the 3 rhetorical appeals. Thanks to them.

In Class: Reflecting of the observation Notes

In fact, I did my notes a little bit earlier before this assignment was given out. So I think that's why I have seen what exact I expected to see. Since Barnes & Noble is a kind of conforting place for one to sit in a quiet state, it did not upset me when I was doing the observation.

I picked different time to do these observations which means, I have got different characteristics of Barnes & Noble from different angles, at least I think I got it.

Since we've learned something about the ethos, pathos and logos appeal in the class, I went to the Barnes & Noble for another two times with a certain purpose. At first I thought it would be so challenging because it is really weird to look for some outstanding artifact in a public space. However, everything turns out good. I felt nature and easy to take a close look to each part of the bookstore and finally I almost got everything I need. The only pitiful thing is that I am not really sure about what I found about logos are really logos appeals.

Ethos, Pathos and Logos appeal in Barnes & Noble

After having been to the TCU bookstore, Barnes & Noble several times, I think I got enough information for the ethos, pathos and logos appeal in Barnes & Noble. I noticed that it helps me a lot when getting these informations to analyse this pubilic space since the ethos(credibility), pathos(emotional influence) and the logos(logic process) will do a great favor to tell the reader about the function, the characteristic of the public space from different angles.


Ethos: As we know, ethos appeals shows the credibility of one person or one thing. Barnes & Noble shows great ethos(credibility) from its look. As I can see, Barnes & Noble is a regular building with formal architectural design. The entire building is symmetrical with a Barnes & Noble logo in the middle. The logo is in white and normal font which shows that Barnes & Noble is a serious book selling store. It will make themselves trustable. Also, above the Barnes & Noble logo was a TCU logo in a TCU font and the classic color, purple. This also shows the credibility and the trustworthiness of this bookstore because it has a contract with TCU or even runned by TCU, a university with good reputation.


Pathos:Pathos appeals gives us the emotional influence of Barnes & Noble. When seeing it from the outside, people will definetely feel home-like since the colors it uses are warm. The roof with red brick and the wall with sunshine yellow brick make people feel silent and peaceful. The building is likely speaking to the customers or even people who just pass by:"If you want to buy some book or just want to have a rest, this is the best place you want to go."
Also, when we enter the bookstore. The strong smell of the Starbucks coffee and the cream-colored couch will make people feel cozy and drag their legs from leaving this comfortable place.


Logos: For the logos appeal, I think we can see a lot from Barnes & Noble. From the purple TCU logo on the front wall, we can infer that there is a contract between TCU and Barnes & Noble. From the souvenirs being sold in the bookstore we can infer that this is no only a bookstore but also a visiting station for the TCU students' families or other visitors who comes here. From the Starbucks inside the bookstore we can infer that there were also other Starbucks on campus serving TCU staff.

In Class: Logos artifact

I brought a lab report from my physics class.
I generally how a mass move when it was dropped down from the resting state, which means the initial velocity is zero.
The lab report also tell me that the method of how to get the motion of the mass including the idea of how to measure some important data. Such us the displacement(distance) between each two dots. It also tells us that why we do not have to time the entire movement since the rbi timer's frequency is a constant, which is 40HZ, so the interval time between the each two dots will be 0.025sec.
I do not really get the idea of how we get the linear regression equation because the proving steps in the experiement is not so convincing.

Unit 1 Proposal

The space I pick for my first essay about the public space analysis is The Barnes & Noble near the campus, to be more specific, the TCU bookstore.

This is really a normal place because there are bookstores, or even Barnes & Nobles everywhere in the country. Almost every reader for my essay have already known how Barnes & Noble looks like. Then you might ask, since I know all this, why I insist writing about this conventional place?

What makes this space appealing to me? I think it's just because I have a strong feeling for Barnes & Noble from the inside part of my heart. I am an international student and everytime when the semester begins or ends I will come here, not just for purchasing books.
I also take notes here, return books and resell the old books I have already used.
The text books here, I mean in this country are totally different from those in my country.

I like to observe people's expressions, actions, conversations not just for the essay. It is also my intereted part. A normal bookstore will not attract me so much, but a bookstore near campus really does. I can see students, professors and other people who is or might be related to TCU.
I like to guess the character or personality or even family circumstance for each individual.


For the observation, I will choose different angle. In front of the bookshelves, on a couch in the Starbucks of the Barnes & Noble, or even behind the service counter(if possible to see the face expressions of each person.) Also, I will choose different time to observe, specificly different period of the semester. I'd like to find out the people's purpose for coming here and how they get what they want in this place.


For me, I am also a part of the targeted audience. I purchase text books, studying stuffs, I return books, I take notes for the ISBN numbers, etc. I did the same or more than everyone did in this place, which makes me have a really strong feeling of Barnes & Noble.

I have both positive and negtive preconceived ideas about Barnes & Noble. As we dicussed in class, we can not divorce ourselves from how we really feel about this space from our own angle. But in the analysis I think I will be neutral since what I'm goona write about is a PUBLIC space.
I will try to be in different position, I mean not physically but in role, to observe and analysis Barnes & Noble.

In Class: Ethos Artifact

Today I brought my passport.
I got this passport two years ago and I believe it makes me know as a
citizen of People's Republic of China. So if someone get my passport, they will
know that it belongs to a Chinese guy.
In the passport, I have the VISA for the United States, which means I am authorized by the ambassy to come to this country during a certain period. Also, an I-94 from is stampled to this passport, meaning that I passed the custom of the United States after a proper process.

From all over the above, I think my passport will tell people who I am, where I come from and the exact time period I can stay in this country.

In Class: Public Space Analysis-Pathos

I am thinking of the small building of Bank Of American near the campus.
I think emotion is one part of human nature. Emotion can be identified by their action, expression, the words or phrases they use.

Since I might write about a bank retailer, I'd like to observe more the customers rather than the conducters cause when it comes to money, the problem or conversation become sensetive.
People cares about their money. Where are they flowing to, when did they transfered in or out?
Students cares because they were sponsered by other people, Business people cares because they may be dealing with a great deal of money for public using, etc.

When I finished observing the customers, I can get better point of writing about the place.

In Class: Pathos Artifact

Here I broght a picture of a man who was buried under a big brick or a collapsed wall.
I can't tell what exactly that is because this is a real photo taken in Sichuan, China, when the terrible earthquake happened.
The man's face is twisting and he could only hold his body with his own hand. His face was totally covered by dust and mud.
He opened his eyes wide so that he can stay awake, otherwise the rescueing team would not find him because there were so many people under the messed buildings, waiting for being saved, he was just one of them. His hands, arms, legs were all bleeding.

I picked this picture as my artifact of pathos because it really arouse my emotion once I saw it.
It shows that the earthquake was a great disaster and also reflect that people has the Spirit to search for the hope to survive.

The picture is not colored, which is really heart touching and shows a historical meaning.