I learned many things from the image analysis and synthesis essays. I learned things about how to approach looking at things in a different light. Like in the advertisements, before, when looking through magazines I would nonchalantly pass through the ads or make a small comment on how great those shoes looked. Now I see all the selling tactics that the companies put into their ads. Before I thought that they just liked to use attractive things to draw in their buyers. But now I know that this has a name ego, pathos and logos and that these companies are masters at using this to attract buyers in. In the synthesis essay I learned a lot about contributing more into the conversation. Before it was just one guys opinion and my own but now I have to take two different or similar opinions and then contribute my own new opinion. It wasn’t as difficult as it first sounded. All I had to do was act like I was really having a conversation and inputting my own voice into it. By the end of the paper I had successfully synthesized two ideas and came up with a brand new one.
I totally agree. I see everything diffrently when i am flipping throug ha magazine. I enjoy it more. I like to see how companies are selling their items and how they set up their ads! its very interesting and compelling.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this. Whenever I see a commercial or read a piece of writing I can't help but to stop and see how a company is trying to win us over or take a piece of writing and think of new and intriguing points of view to it.
ReplyDeleteThe term is ethos, not ego. But I must agree that after the image analysis assignment I often find myself trying to analyze magazine and television ads. It's actually kind of fun to try to figure out the target audience.
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