Analyzing An Advertisement Of My Choice From A Magazine

A semester has passed since I started college and my journey of becoming a better writer. It has been a very important semester for my future college career, and I would not be here without the things I have accomplished. The composition program has really helped me to prepare for what college writing is all about. Now standing here and looking back I could not imagine how it would be without that class. I believe my English, and my writing is better than it has ever been, and all thanks to the composition program.

In order to have an interesting essay it is important to grab the attention of the audience. This semester I learned that audiences determine lots of parts an essay has. Mainly, rhetorical strategies are the easiest ways to grab the attention of audiences. Pathos, ethos, and logos are all strategies that appeal to different groups of people and different kinds of subjects. For example, in my essay Image Analysis of EKBURG.RU’s Advertisement “Think of Both Sides” I target my audience with appeals. Pathos is my main appeal. I hope to analyze the image, but also help the audience understand the deep meaning in this advertisement. I use a picture and facts to appeal to the emotions of the audience and grab their attention. My audience is targeted to people driving over the holiday and anyone with a child because that is the main focus of the analyzed ad. I also wrote in a very serious manner because this is a serious subject. Clearly, this audience is of an older age to understand the meaning of my essay. Throughout my essays this semester I stick to a purpose and have always learned to direct my attention back to that purpose. In order to write with a purpose my purpose must be clear and explained throughout my essay. One way I make sure my purpose is clear is through a thesis sentence. I have learned how to properly create a thesis sentence through this course and to explain my thesis through steps in each paragraph, then sum it up at the end with a conclusion. For example, in

One of the challenges high school seniors face is to choose whether to further their education or not. Many students choose to go on to college to get degrees or certificates, but many do not. College certainly is not for everyone. College is important though for people who want to obtain jobs that require getting a degree. I am a person who wants to get a career that requires a quality college education. I will experience many challenges and obstacles throughout my college education. I know taking a Composition and Rhetoric class will be one of these challenges. I am taking English 1101 because I have to in order to get my degree, because I want to get ahead, and because I expect to develop better writing and communication skills.

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

Over the course of this semester I learned a lot about myself as a writer. This English 101 class has really allowed me to expand my essay structure and ways of thinking. This was my first college writing course and it has given me much more freedom when writing because in high school I felt limited and like what we were writing was not very important. In high school I would write essays to just to fulfill the required word or page count and to a degree I still feel like this but maybe that is why I am an engineering major but in this course I actually was able to express my ideas and for the first time really test the limits of my writing capabilities. I really enjoyed being able to incorporate my voice more in my essays and I believe

This English Composition II class has educated me so much on how to write better, write in different formats, schedule my time better, and how to improve my writing. Learning more about all of these categories will help me in the future when I need to write other essays for future college classes that I will have. I am very happy that I took this class when I did, because of it I am more prepared for college this fall. I just hope my future professors are as funny and kind as Mr. Stout has been towards

(TS) The advertisement for Bose Headphones displaying the man and the waterfall uses humor and dramatic irony to make readers remember the ad and the headphones they are selling. (C1) Humor is portrayed in this ad in a number of different ways. (E1) This ad uses humor because the man rowing the boat is about to fall to his death down a waterfall and doesn’t even realize it. The fact that the man is so oblivious and the exaggeration of the power of the headphones is what brings up humor in the ad. (R1) The humor in this unrealistic advertisement quickly draws readers attention to make you remember it. The picture stands out and is different from other ads because of the way it uses humor, so the audience is sure to remember

This semester taking English dual credit I believe that not only my writing skills have improved but my reading skills as well. Through this course I have learned how to find the deeper meanings of other author's writings. I learned that part of understanding and comprehending comes from being able to analyze. By learning how to analyze my skills as a writer have improved because I am able to use some of the other writers skills and techniques on my own paper. Overall this course has helped me tremendously. When comparing the other dual credit course I took last year to this course I would have to say that the difficulty of both courses is similar even though the courses are very different. One reason that made the other dual credit course I took which was U.S. History seem more

I learned how to write an essay. I took that information you gave to me and I ran with it, and I can now write a powerful essay. From the first draft to the final one, and every mile between, I have retained all the information and can now show you. We discussed the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the sentence that states the main idea of your whole writing assignment, and how if you have an inadequate thesis statement, the whole backbone of the paper is lost.

One fall semester, I enrolled into a required writing course. The course was part of my major.

TIME Magazine is geared towards young, wealthy, well-informed college graduates who have just entered the workforce. The magazine’s articles are widespread, covering a magnitude of information to keep its readers informed; political discourse, socio-economic trends, as well as light-hearted, comical sections are found in the magazine’s contents. Since the magazine’s intended audience are young and looking to start their lives, the advertisements in the magazines appeal to this

The first essay we wrote included an analysis of a college brochure. To state it nicely, it did not go well for me. My analysis at first was very choppy and I never fully explained my thought on the paper. For example, my thought process went from “the

Companies have been using advertisements in magazines as means of marketing for many decades now. While the purpose for ads, which is to get the consumer to buy their products, is seemingly obvious. Most of the messages that ads are sending are being received to the viewer’s subconscious mind. As Jean Kilbourne touches upon in her documentary Killing Us Softly 4, ads not only tell us what we need to buy, they tell us who we are (Killbourne, 2010). The specific ad I will be analyzing is an ad that was produced by the marketing executives at BMW. The ad can be found in many different magazines and the targeted audience for this particular ad is obviously to gain the attention of men. The ad displays a man and women in bed believed (suggested) to be engaging in intercourse with a picture of a BMW covering the women’s face. Through the knowledge that I’ve gained from Jean Kilbourne’s documentary, I can point out that three are three strong messages being displayed in this ad. The ad sends a message that dehumanizes women, uses sex to sale a product, and shows men that they can objectify women without consequences.

Throughout the semester, I have encountered different assignments for each essay that has help me to become a better writer. My expectations were high, and I became anxious about what the topic was going to be on. As soon as I progress with the objective, I was able to put down what I wanted to talk about with the subject matter. One particular assignment that improved my quality of writing was the ad analysis. What also helped me was the learning outcome that use for it this assignment: researching. Without it, I would have never achieved the goal that was needed to complete the assignment.

Smoking tobacco has been a part of American culture since its very conception. Throughout our history, tobacco has been advertised as a simple pleasure for those who seek it out. Whether you are sitting on the porch with a couple of friends or in a dimly lit jazz club, tobacco ads give off a false sense of comfort, power, and success. Until around the mid-1900’s, smoking cigarettes was not considered unhealthy. It was only later that the public realize the detrimental health consequences that came with smoking tobacco. To spread this information, specific advertisements were aired to help inform the public of the dangers of smoking. While these ads have changed over time, the same message and warning still remains evident.