English 101
The midterm: class discussion
Submitted by Courtney Kappes 10/4/97
MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM
Advertisement for Watchguard
1. Why/What Purpose: Buy the product Message:
Internet dangerous/corruptive
product=solution
Audience: Teachers-schools
Context: Kids violence morality *kids and internet
2. Ethos
"Deputy" Website/ph.context "the most dependable product
on the market"
3. Pathos-appeal to the audience
pictures (gun, whips, eyes) FEAR Box as "hope"/weapon shield
blocks out the "bad stuff" Color- Black on White red=aggresive
Threat> out to get you Contrast- school/outside good/bad you/them Firebox/Plug
in Play (fancy words to appeal to our senses)
4. Logos Problem
-----Solution=Product
They are focusing on my emotional response to sell their product. Claim
--- they want a response How are you going to support this claim? -message-
pathos used to get message across
-No Logos -No Ethos
WHEN YOU MAKE A CLAIM MAKE SURE TO KEEP THAT CLAIM UP THROUGH OUT YOUR PAPER.
submitted by Hosanna Kakarala (10/5/97)
On October 3 1997, we talked about how to prepare for the midterm.We have to bring a text for monday to analyze and talk about how the author write it.
Some of the strategies are to outline the essay, and how one big claim (thesis) for it, and smaller claims that support it stating a purpose, audience, message, and context are useful to make an outline. Talking about pathos,logos, ethos seperately would also be another approach. We did a model analysis of a text from a magazine, which talks about how the internet is not safe for everyone due to explict contents. The class decided on the following: Purpose: Buy watch guard. Audience: Teachers and educators. Message: internet is not safe and watch guard makes it safer Context: New (ponographic web sites). To interpret the message, pictures are used showing violence and ponography in dangerous situations. Font and color for certain words also make the message revealing.
If you have comments or would like to add anything to Dolores' summary, please e-mail your instructor!