Purpose: My motivation for this photo essay is to highlight the unreal magnificence of our planet that a lot of people (myself included sometimes) take for granted. There are things about our planet that most people consider beautiful like a colorful sunset or a full moon, but there are many things that people do not notice. I want to find as many beautiful objects of our planet and put them on display. In the end my motivation is also to show that there is so much beauty with preserving and most people don’t even consider it. I hope that after seeing my photo essay people realize that there is so much amazing stuff around us all the time and you don’t even have to pay anything to enjoy the majority of it. There are a lot of things that contributed to me picking this as my topic, I’ve always had a love of nature and animals but I’ve never taken it much past appreciation. My freshman common reader was garbage land and ever since then I’ve always had something gnawing at me to try my hardest to make a difference and I think it is finally about time I start. The best possible outcome of people seeing my essay would be that they take more time to enjoy the little things that the planet has to offer us: the way a breeze makes the tree blow or how impossibly still water can be if there is not current or disruption. In all honesty I don’t really foresee a “worst possible outcome.” I suppose the absolute worst thing would be that other people find the subject matter boring, which would almost defeat the purpose of this being done in the first place because I want to educate people. I suppose that along with people thinking that it is boring, I could not catch people’s interest which is the opposite of what I want. I guess that this could change the situation by maybe changing people’s outlook on our environment, maybe people would take more steps to reduce their flow of garbage to landfills or maybe reduce their carbon footprint just a little bit.
Audience: On a small scale my audience is my peers in class, who will have to help edit and will see my topic from start to finish. On a larger scale my audience would be anyone who uses the internet and reads blogs and happens upon my blog. So as far as planning my photo essay according to who my audience is I think that I need to make sure that I’m most concerned about piquing the interest of people in my age group, because most of us disregard nature and the beauty of earth and learning more about what makes it worth preserving. Along with people in my age group I should target high school aged students because they can also help work towards a change in attitude that could eventually lead to more of a concrete change in the way things are.
Context: Our class meets later in the afternoon, so it is after everyone has had lunch and maybe a few classes and they are starting to get burned out for the day. In order to keep people engaged and interested in my photo essay I will have to work to make sure that I am going as deep into my photo essay subject as possible. As for it being posted on my blog that makes things a little more interesting because the time of day that anyone chooses to view it wholly depends on that persons schedule and even what time zone they are in. I would think that someone looking at my photo essay online would find it interesting to them no matter what the time of day because it was something they chose to click on, but the same things that applied to my classmates would apply to anyone on the internet: making sure that my topic is interesting and thoughtful enough to keep people interested and perhaps even wanting to know more about what I have to say further down the line.Strategies: My strategy should come from where I started with the statement of purpose, in which I decided that I want my photo essay to be about the beauty of nature that a lot of us forget about sometimes and how even the little things are worth preserving. Also in my statement of purpose I decided that the group of people that I am targeting is young adults in my age group and even high school aged teenagers. So I would need make sure that I strategize to meet their interests. If I know anything about young adults, which I think I do, it’s that we grew up with distractions (TV, video games, the internet, etc.) and it is really hard to keep our attention. So, the main part of my strategy will be to format my photo essay in a way that captivates the readers eye and makes them want to read through the whole thing without moving on to the next new and exciting thing.
Ethos: I will play to reader’s ethos by using a language that is familiar to them, without dumbing anything down. I will also need to be explicit with my stance and how much this really does mean to me, if people don’t think I care about the subject than I am giving them absolutely no reason to care themselves.
Pathos: I will appeal to readers’ emotions by putting as much of my own into it. The environment is something that is vitally important and I think that people should have a myriad of emotions concerning it. The emotion that I want to appeal to the most would be empathy.
Logos: I will appeal to logos by being as logical as possible. Basically “We live on the earth. We need the earth. Help maintain the earth for the sake of our lives.”
Medium: As far as mediums for our photo essay go I could either use Word or PowerPoint only because I’m not skilled in any other medium that is comparable to those two. Just from experience I can imagine that using word would make it hard to format the photos and text the way I would want to so I’m automatically leaning towards using PP. I think that PowerPoint would be the best use of my time and energy and I would be able to format everything the way I would want. I would still have to include my narrative so there might be a part that I would type in Word, but I think for the actual photographic part of the photo essay I will use PowerPoint because I will be able to manipulate photos and texts much easier and with more purpose than I would be able to in Word.
Arrangement: Well I know that I will have multiple pictures and a narrative. I definitely want the narrative to be spread out with the pictures if possible to do that in PowerPoint, just because I would prefer for the two to coexist rather than be two separate entities. As far as the arrangement of the pictures I am not so sure. I could either do a season kind of arrangement where I bring the reader through the different seasons and showcase all the different types of beauty in the different seasons or I could do close up and landscape pictures, growing bigger and bigger as the essay goes on. So as far as arrangement there’s a lot that still needs to be determined. It ultimately depends on what pictures I decide to do, which I should do post-haste.
Rhetorical Analysis
Purpose: My motivation for this rhetorical analysis is to continue with the groundwork I laid for myself in the photo essay. I want to stick to an emphasis on the environment which is why I chose to use WWF ads. After reading my paper I hope my audience will have a better understanding of what the ads that WWF is trying to portray and make people think about. Because that is their general purpose: make people think about the important issues concerning our environment. The main situation that makes me want to have this as my subject would just be the state of our planet as it is presently. The best possible outcome of this paper would be people taking more time to consider the impact they have personally and that they can indeed make a difference. Seeing ads like this is not uncommon, they are in magazines, they’re all over the internet on different websites, and there are a plethora of them if you take the time to do a simple Google search. The best thing that could happen with my analysis would be people actually being able to internalize the ads they see so very often. The worse possible outcome would be that people just completely ignore the subject and don’t give it any thought. I have faith that my essay will encourage people to give it thought though and don’t foresee a “worse” outcome. This paper could change the situation because it could make people become more introspective when they see something like a WWF and have a better understanding of what it means and what the purpose of it is.
Audience: As always on a small scale my audience is my peers in class and my professor. But, on a much larger scale I want my audience to be anyone who has had their interest piqued when they saw a WWF ad or an Ad Council ad about the environment. My audience could even be someone who has very little understanding of the environment and wants to learn more and try and comprehend the ads they see about the environment. The age range of the targeted audience would be high school to college and even a little older, the people who can make the most difference in our future society.
Context: The context, since it is posted on my blog is a little up in the air. Because of the fact that anyone can view at any time of day, or night for that matter. So they context really all depends on when someone comes across my blog and finds it interesting. In the school context it would be reviewed during our class time which is at 2 in the afternoon.
Strategies: Going off of my statement of purpose I will need to make sure that I write in an academic language that still translate to my audience and make it easy for anyone to understand. Keeping the attention of my audience will be key and I think I can achieve that by choosing ads that that age group would find interesting. Formatting and the flow of the essay will be paramount because it’ll keep their attention and keep them focused on the subject at hand.
Ethos: To effectively employ ethos I will need to show my credibility on the subject. I think that my photo essay was a good start and if I try and keep the same theme going that I’ll be in good standing. Obviously I will need to use more effective academic language and show that I am a credible source.
Pathos: I will have to make sure that I try my best to make the readers care about the subject of an analysis on WWF and Ad Council ads. I think the ads speak for themselves quite a bit so I already have a good foundation laid for where my text needs to take the readers.
Logos: I will have to be logical and have a solid structure as to where my argument goes and have it lead somewhere that the readers can follow. I have to give myself credibility so they can rely on what I’m saying.
Medium: With this being an academic essay, the medium used is pretty clear: Word. It will all be text and include between 4-7 photo ads that I will select with thought and consideration over where exactly I want my paper to take people’s minds.
Arrangement: The arrangement will take some more thought because I still need to set in stone what pictures I will be using for the ads that I am analyzing. The order to which I utilize the pictures is really important because it will determine the flow of the entire paper so that is what I need to focus on most. The actual text of the paper will flow properly if I choose wisely the order of the ads. Arrangement will be key to the effectiveness of my paper and it will also be key in keeping people’s attention and determining where the argument will go.Argument Synthesis
Purpose: Since this paper is supposed to be an argument regarding the changing of the working world of the 21st century, my purpose needs to revolve around using my sources in the best way possible and making sure my argument is as clear and concise as possible. After learning about it, I have realized how difficult a synthesis paper can be, but I have also learned that it can be extremely beneficial to the person writing it and anyone who reads it. So, by using the sources from our packet, mainly Sennett, Judy and D'Amico, Friedman, Peters, and Vitae, I hope to effectively argue that success in the working world of the future will include changes in: ability to adapt, the self, and skills and education.
Audience: I think that the information and conclusions I'm drawing from that information would interest someone who is my age or younger. Perhaps even much younger, like high school aged, who is already thinking about their future. To reach this target audience it is most necessary to appeal to logic, proceeded by emotion. Most people when they think about their future either stress out because they have absolutely no idea what to do, or they are completely at ease because they already have a clear picture in their head of what they want to do. I think this paper can appeal to either of these people if I execute it successfully. Most importantly I want to write this paper for someone like me, who has an idea of what they want in their future, but no idea of what to do or how to get there. After reading through this packet and starting to establish an argument, I've learned a lot about how it applies to me and above all I want to possibly help someone else see that there is extremely fruitful information in this packet about the working world of today.
Context: The context that this essay needs to be in is relatively clear, it is about looking to the future of the job world for any young adult who wishes to be a part of it. Anyone can view the paper at anytime since it is up on the blog, but my hope is that young adult hopefuls for the working world take the time to at least skim it because I think it could be helpful.
Strategies: Appealing to readers in this essay is going to be really important. There are important points made and it would be really awesome if someone were to actually read it and learn something from it that they could apply to their life. I'll need to effectively use ethos, pathos, and logos in the proper way in order to make sure as many people as possible find my argument interesting.
Ethos: I showed credibility by effectively using our sources that were extremely helpful. Not only by picking and choosing solid quotes, but also by giving enough background on each of the individual authors to show how credible the sources that I chose to use were.
Pathos: I think this subject is easy to make young adults in my target audience care about, because it is so vital to their future if they want a successful career life until they retire. I know I don't want to work a minimum wage job forever and not make any kind of difference, but maybe by making changes and moving forward with what we think of the working world, finding a place to call your own in the work force is entirely possible if not unavoidable.
Logos: Since this is the first ever synthesis paper I have done, I think I did a very good job of incorporating logic into the subject. It is a rather easy subject to have a logical enforcement. If you want work, you need to be prepared for change.
Medium: The medium for this is a synthesis argument. It is an academic essay that needs to be between 6-8 pages. (I know if I go into more detail and emphasize certain things that surely I can make it longer, but for the time being I am just so happy that mine is 6 pages.) It is an academic synthesis that I tried very hard to use proper adult language and complex sentences for.
Arrangement: The arrangement for this argument was what I think I found most difficult. It was tough to decide what argument to put where, how much emphasis to put on different subjects and even just figuring out what quotes I wanted to use. I finally decided to go personal, education, and technology as my three main topics that I went into more detail about which related back to my thesis that people have to constantly be prepared for change and changes in the working world.
Research Synthesis
Purpose: The purpose of this synthesis argument is to show the importance of nuclear energy in a time when there are so many people living on the planet and we need a sustainable way to make everyone live comfortably with energy coursing through homes and businesses. Nuclear energy is cleaner than a lot of other energy and although it can be extremely volatile, as long as the proper safety precautions are taken it can be extremely safe. My main goal for this paper is to gain a better understanding of nuclear energy myself and pass on what I learn through my research synthesis.
Audience: My audience for my paper this time is specifically my teacher and my classmates. I want to show how far my writing process has come through this class. I want to show that I am capable of adaptation and growth. This paper is a completely new form of writing to me. This will be the second time in my life that I have written a synthesis argument, after how well I did on the first one I have relatively high hopes for how this one will turn out.
Context: The context of this paper is the way we utilize nuclear energy in a time where out planet is almost at capacity and we have an insane amount of energy required to run our daily lives. Having nuclear energy in our world means that there's a way we can sustain ourselves for as long as possible. I didn't know much about nuclear energy before this paper, but put in the proper context there is a myriad of subjects that can branch from a subject like this.
Strategies: The strategies for this essay are extremely important, if I want people to read this and learn absolutely anything from it, I need to make it appealing and make it something that people will want to read.
Ethos: The credibility will come from my sources which are academic in nature. It will also come from how I utilize them most effectively. Sources used in an ineffective way are practically meaningless so I need to make the most out of my sources by putting them in the proper context and making sure that everything is where it needs to be and I have picked the most useful information.
Logos: The logic of this paper is again going to come from effectively using my sources to show that nuclear power is extremely logical and is the best choice for our society which is brimming over the earth's capacity limits.
Pathos: I need to appeal to reader's emotions because this subject is really important, and if people don't find the emotional appeal in my paper it is very unlikely that they will take anything said to heart. Nuclear energy can be a very emotional subject to people and I would rather people be over the edge with emotion because of my paper, instead of fee absolutely nothing.
Medium: My medium for this paper is another academic, well written paper with concrete ideas and information to back everything up. It has to be at least 2000 words. In my head that sounds like a lot, but my other synthesis paper ended up being over 2500, and that was without even trying so this one should be relatively easy to make happen.
Arrangement: Just like the other argument synthesis paper, I found the arrangement for this paper extremely confusing and hard to pin down. I know I want to have a paragraph specifically about nuclear energy and what it is, a paragraph about how safety rules have changed since Fukushima or how safety regulations are in general, and a paragraph about how nuclear energy is better than things like oil or solar power. I guess what would make the most sense if I just ordered the paragraphs how I have them listed there... That was easy.
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