Redesign Essay Reflection

I felt really good going into the assignment because I was very confident with the advertisement I chose and felt very comfortable with how I could redesign it, I had a few different ideas but I really liked how I had the option to choose an option and one wasn’t chosen for me.

            I decided on the advertisement that I did because I could easily appeal to it how it was in the first place and I had a good idea in my head about who I could make it appeal to once I redesigned it. As soon as I saw the ad I knew that I was going to do that one just because I personally enjoy the product and would love if it was bought for me so that made the redesign easier too because I tried to make it so a man would buy the jewelry for the women or daughter or any significant lady in their life.

            I pictured in all in my head so all I had to do was say it and write it down before the idea went away or was changed a little bit. Since I had it pictured in my mind it was pretty simple after that all I had to do was make sure it appealed to ethos, pathos, and logos, and had enough detail in it for the person reading it to get a good picture.

            I didn’t face many challenges in the beginning of the essay but it was a little challenging explaining every detail and making sure I had every detail so that it was an easy picture in everyone else’s mind that didn’t see the advertisement. I overcame that challenge by reading   over what I wrote a few times and add little details to make sure everything was explained correctly and everything was seen.

            What I really liked about this assignment was that we could find our own advertisement and could do whatever we wanted to with it unless it wasn’t approved but mine was. I like having the freedom of being able to do different things with the ad and it be my own ad that I redesigned and made. I used the likes to my advantage by making my redesign ad the exact way I wanted to and making it my own.

            I walked away with more knowledge about ethos, pathos, and logos and a lot more understanding of them which helped out a lot in the paper considering we had to make sure they were all in the ad. Also writing more detail in a paper when you’re describing something to someone who has never seen the ad before. I have a greater understanding of both of those aspects now that I have written this paper. Without having an understanding of them this paper would have been very hard.

            I wouldn’t do anything differently if I had a chance to rewrite this paper. The things I wanted to do with the essay were approved and I didn’t change a thing of it, I had to add little details but nothing drastic that would have changed how the ad appealed to an audience. I enjoyed what I did with the paper and I believe it was a successful paper.

A Letter to Myself

Dear Hannah,

                Everyone makes mistakes every day. One of the most common mistakes that are made is getting a speeding ticket, they aren’t something pleasant to get and no one enjoys it. It’s very hard to not speed sometime, especially when you’re late somewhere but speeding should never be an option, it could be very dangerous and an expensive ending to that mistake. There are many ways to prevent this mistake from happening, one way is to make sure you know exactly where you are going and how much time you have before you make a certain turn or exit for your destination. Also going to speed limit at all times everywhere no matter what and you can easily avoid being pulled over and receiving a ticket. Driving safely will make it easy for you to not receive a ticket; it’s also a better decision to drive safely no matter where you go just to make sure nothing bad will happen while you are driving. It’s never safe to speed you can get into accidents or you could get a ticket which is never fun to pay because they are usually expensive. There are no ways to make the mistake go away or make it acceptable but there are ways you can make the mistake a little bit better. Once you have figured out the cost of your ticket you can call the court and plead guilty and go into court when your court date is scheduled and try to get your ticket reduced by explaining why you were doing what you were doing and depending on how bad the ticket was for, it could be reduced and they could make it so you get no points on your license which stay on your license forever and you never get rid of them, it also looks bad and raises your insurance which nobody wants. Another way you can make the mistake better is by paying the ticket right away and never making the same mistake again, learn from what has happened the first time and getting a ticket usually isn’t the best feeling so the best thing to do is accept it, either take it to court to have it reduced a little or pay it and move on from there. There isn’t much you can do to fix the mistake once it’s been made there is no taking it back. There are many ways to prevent it as long as you follow the speed limits and don’t speed, pay attention to your surroundings, know where you are going and be positive of what you are doing, and always drive safely you have your life in your own hands and anyone else that is in the car with you when you are choosing to speed. All you have to do is think before you do things while you are in the car, it is very important to make sure you know everything you are doing in the car, everything can happen in a blink of an eye.

Literacy Narrative Process Memo

Hannah Sexton

WRT 150

Lauren Rinke

10-12-12

Process Memo

            When I sat down in class and started to think it was a little bit difficult for me to figure out where to start because I couldn’t remember much before 1^st grade so I figured that would be the best place to start. Something interesting I found or remembered when I was making my timeline was that I was really into reading for quite some time until I began to dislike it in 6^th grade. There wasn’t much of a set theme I think in my timeline, other than the fact that I loved books up to a certain point. It was difficult to pick one type of thing to talk about, because I had a bunch on my timeline I wanted to put it all in my paper but couldn’t, it would have been very disorganized. I decided what to pick by just figuring out where my love for reading was lost and explain a little bit before and the a little bit after that point. Creating the timeline explained that I lost my love for reading for almost 7 years which isn’t good at all, it makes me very upset to think about because reading is so important and now that I’m getting back into it I wish I would have kept my love for reading the whole time. I figured it would have been best to talk about my struggles with reading rather than all the reading I used to do because I feel like the struggles I had with reading was a lot more important and I have a better memory of it than my love for reading I had before it. It was difficult to center all my thoughts I had into only a few thoughts, I really struggled with that part of the assignment, I wanted to put a lot more into my literacy narrative than I could. When I began to write my narrative I organized it by age and experiences, I began with my love for reading and how I always read then how I was in the reading class and struggled all the way into 6^th grade which made me lose my love for reading because I was so embarrassed then to now where I work at a daycare and read to my children there all the time, now im starting to read again and love it again. After the first time reading my story and changing a few things that didn’t make sense it read chronologically. It was difficult to organize my thoughts into a draft because I had so many of them; I didn’t use much of any prewriting skills other than brainstorming and my timeline. After the peer review session I realized a lot of things I had to fix grammatically and I had to fix some things that made it sound like a real story some things were jumbled. My partner was very helpful he made some corrections I had missed and gave me more of an idea on how to break down my story to put it into the animoto slideshow. Some constructive criticism he gave me was that I needed to change a few things so it would make better sense and fix some of my grammar mistakes; it was very helpful I didn’t notice some of the things that he had so it was very helpful to me. When I was doing my final edits I wasn’t thinking about how I was going to turn it into a slideshow because I had so much information in my narrative I didn’t know how to narrow it down. It didn’t really alter it at all because I wasn’t thinking about making the slideshow as I was writing my narrative. I believe my partner did choose the best sentences in my paper for my slideshow; I used all of them a little bit more because I felt like there should have been a little information in there than he suggested. I found it very difficult to get my sentences down to only 52 characters per slide, I had a lot more information I wanted to put into a slide but I either had to cut it out or make it into two different slides. My strategy was to figure out different ways to say the things I wanted to say to make them shorter but to also make sure they made sense, it took me a little bit of time to get the text slides done just because of that factor. I used images I felt would give the audience a better understanding of my slideshow, I felt like all my pictures made sense with my text slides and made my slideshow better. I also used some book references as pictures for example the 1984 picture and the Candide picture. I chose the images that were in my slideshow because I really liked them and they gave my slideshow even more detail. Most of the pictures were from the internet but I had some of my own personal pictures in the slideshow also. They all put a picture to my slideshow which gave it more detail and a story is always better with pictures, it makes it more interesting. The song I chose was called Heal up by Cory Sipper, I chose this song off the animoto site and I felt like it made my slideshow better because I struggled with reading and the song talks about getting better and getting there. I wish I would have given more information in my text slides and had more personal photos rather than pictures from the internet.

Nissan Leaf

In the Nissan Leaf commercial, it is about an electric car that can help our environment and make global warming decrease because of the fact that it’s electric and it won’t harm the ozone layer. For example the polar bear that is represented as the car at first I believe, lives off nature and goes through it all and survives but when the garbage trucks pass him with all the garbage in it he gives them a big roar to show that that’s harming our ozone layer unlike the Nissan Leaf car that’s electric and won’t harm it. The people that this commercial is intended for would most likely be the “tree huggers” who do whatever it takes to save our ozone layer and are against things such as pollution and destroying trees. The type of rhetoric that is being used is the polar bear and how he can live off nature without harming it just like the Nissan Leaf can. According to this commercial and the reading by Sturken and Cartwright I would say this is a negotiated reading for me because I agree that it would help our ozone layer but not all cars that are electric are safe for our environment, they still need gas which we get from our environment but it’s better for our environment than a regular car that isn’t an electric one so it does have its good points and its bad points. 

From Virginia Heffernen:

1.       My elementary, middle, and high school teachers could have had us do more projects or just any type if school work on the computer instead of basically nothing accept using the computer for research and to type papers.

2.       The type of technology I thought I would be using with my future career would be computers to store information, and other then that not much because I would most likely be working with my hands a lot and writing information. I believe college will help me with having to use the computer more in my future; I’ll be more familiar with certain things.

3.       I feel like I write better in a more relaxed scene than a blog or an email, I would rather write down my thoughts and things then put them on a blog or email. I’d also rather call someone and tell them something rather than an email.

4.       I would have my student’s do a lot of work on the computer but be understandable if the computer had a problem, which a lot of teachers are understandable considering you never know what could happen to a computer at any time. I would give out projects, papers, and assignments online and have the students get used to using the computer more but I would also give them assignments on paper and other things on paper so they don’t fully get used to everything being on the computer.

5.       I don’t agree with the tone of this piece I believe we should prepare people for what is going on and what is going to happen in the future instead of not preparing them at all for something that doesn’t exist yet. Yes, we don’t know what the future holds but it’s better to be prepared for something that will most likely be in the future that will only get more fancy and learn everything about how it is now and eventually work your way up from there.