Going into this assignment, at
first I had a hard time finding an advertisement because with most
advertisements I couldn’t think of a way to redirect them toward a different
audience. I eventually found a Popchips advertisement in Seventeen that I felt was pretty easy to redirect. After that, I
felt pretty confident. I had an idea of what I was going to do and I thought it
would be easy to write. Once I started writing my rough draft, though, I lost
that confidence. I couldn’t seem to elaborate on my thoughts in order to make
the essay long enough. I didn’t know how to go in enough detail about the use
of rhetoric either. It was very helpful and when we were in class and we came
up to the professor one by one with questions. It helped me organize my essay
more and understand how pathos, ethos, and logos were used in the original ad. I
still was never able to make the essay long enough. When I came up with my idea
for the redesign, I just pictured it in my head. Unfortunately, my first idea
was already an advertisement created by the Popchips company so I had to change
it. That was inconvenient because I really liked my first choice and thought it
was a good advertisement. Clearly it was, since it was used by the company
itself. I still liked my new idea but I don’t think it was as good as the
first. I really liked that this assignment was very different than any writing
assignment I’ve done before. I got to use my creative side, which is one of my
strong points. It was easy for me to picture the advertisement in my head and
recreate it on paper but it was just a little bit more difficult to get down on
paper. If I got a second chance to write this essay, I start my rough draft by
elaborating on the use of rhetoric so that my paper was long enough so that I
wouldn’t have lost points. Unfortunately, losing points on the final draft was
going to happen either way because I couldn’t think of enough detail to stretch
it out to 5 pages. Either way, I felt like I learned more about the use of
rhetoric and how to use them in visual literacy, rather than novels.
You had a lot of good points in your reflection. I felt the same way about the length of the paper. I had a hard time stretching mine out to 5 pages also. I felt like this was a good paper and good experience also.
ReplyDeleteI am so with you on trying to find the perfect ad, I was struggling as well to flip the ad to a different intended audience. Your right getting this essay to five pages took a lot of rambling and just trying to elaborate on the topic more; however, I felt like everything was explained enough within 3 pages. Just always stay positive you are a strong writer and you have a ton of ideas, don't look back to your previous idea because I bet the next one was just as good. Agreeing with you 100%, viewing the use of rhetoric's with the advertisement way helped so much and helped me figure it out really well.
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