2nd Paper Questions

1.        How did you go about analyzing the text? What methods did you use—and which ones were most helpful?

I used mostly my own opinion and the opinion of the companies I was analyzing.

2.       How did you go about drafting your essay?

I drafted my essay by jotting down ideas, then I found my ads and listed the 7 properties of an analysis and answered them briefly. (Purpose, Audience, Stance, Context, Media, Design, Quote.)

3.       How well did you organize your written analysis? What, if anything, could you do to make it easier to read?

I believe I did a very good job on organization, I started with a powerful image and ended with an even better one leaving a good impression on the reader.

4.       Did you provide sufficient evidence to support your analysis?

Yes I did, I have statistics listed throughout.

5.       What did you do especially well?

I think that I've improved my grammatical fluency. It was not as good in my first paper.

6.       What could still be improved?

I think my grammatical fluency still needs a bit more work, but I feel that I did a good job answering the prompt.

7.       Did you use any visuals, and if so, what did they add? Could you have shown the same thing with words?

I used 3 advertisements that I placed strategically around the essay.

8.       How did other readers' responses influence your writing?

It helped out a lot I took into consideration all of their critiques and nearly used every one of them in my paper.

9.       What would you do differently next time?

I think I would add another advertisement that captured more from the ethos side of persuasion.

10.   Are you pleased with your analysis? What did it teach you about the text you analyzed? Did it make you want to study more works by the same writer or artist?

Yes I am pleased with it. I learned a lot about the current condition of many rainforests around the world and I've learned an immense amount of new vocabulary. It made me want to keep researching the issue and see what’s changed in the last couple of years since the advertisements were published.

11.   What are the transferrable  skills you can take from this into other writing situations?

The power of persuasion is something I will use in the rest of my papers. I learned a lot about it and would like to continue to learn more about pathos, ethos, and logos.