Writing Project One:
I as an automobile enthusiast I would like to show people who are not interested in the car culture, what the car culture is all about, and that cars are so much more than just tools in our everyday lives. The car culture is something that is not very different from any other culture. It is just a group of people that come together and share the same interests and beliefs. I have grown up being around cars, and a few of my family members enjoy cars and have a few hot rods themselves. This is where my love for car came from. I hope to show people that just use their cars as a tool to make life more simple can see that cars are so much more than a tool. They are a statement piece of your personal style. They can tell a story about there owners. Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear UK) once said :” It’s what non-car people do not get. All they see is a ton-ton-and-a-half of wires, metal,glass and rubber. Thats all they see. People like you or I know, we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities. You can have a relationship with a car, that’s just what non-car people don’t get.”
Medium & Production: I am going to be using photos that I have taken. Theses will be pictures of show cars, since my essay is about the car culture. I need pictures of more cars than what I have now. Ten pictures may not be enough for what I want to say. I will have to get pictures of my aunt’s and grandfather’s car to add to my essay so show the class where my passion for cars came from. I want to show both classic and brand new super cars. I need to take pictures of people actually in the photo's to show that car culture is made up of people also not just cars.
Strategies:
Ethos: I don't want people to think that if their car is dirty or a bit on the rusty side, that they are committing a sin. I don't want people to think that the car culture is for the rich. I am by no means rich.
Pathos: I want my audience to know that, to some people in the world that cars are so much more. I will show the audience this with pictures of classic cars, new cars, and super cars.
Logos: My argument is based purely on opinion. I hope my photo's and narrative for each picture can show people that cars are so much more than tools. They are a statement.
Arrangement: I will probably have around 10 to 15 slides, I hope. I will start from the beginning for me, Where I became interested in cars. Then I will move on to the slides trying to persuade people that cars are so much more than just tools in our daily lives. I will use black and white pictures for the older cars and change the saturation up for the pictures with the new and super cars.
Writing Project Two:
As a veteran of the U.S. Military I thought it would be a great idea to do my visual rhetorical analysis on American world war II propaganda posters. Everybody has seen these posters, the famous poster of Uncle Sam with text reading “I want you for the U.S. Army”, and the poster of the woman factory worker with the text reading “We can do it”. I think I would be fascinating to analyze these posters because of their history and popularity in the culture of our country. These posters help fuel the war effort and called thousands of young men and women to arms. These posters gave the families of those men and women the feeling that they were directly helping the men on the frontline. I feel that analyzing these posters will help me understand the way the people felt when they say these posters for the first time.
Medium and Production: I will be using four American World War II posters to do my analysis. Two of which will be well known to our culture, and two wont be as well known so I can have a well rounded view of the posters used during this time period.
Strategies:
Ethos: I will start by looking at the creators of these posters and their credibility. These posters were probably made by the by the government or at least approved by the government. Being the government of the united states I would say that these posters had a lot of credibility behind them. For the effectiveness of these posters we can look to history and see how popular these posters were. They made men enlist into the army, civilians bought war bonds, and the women built plains and weapons in factories across America.
Logos: Every poster I have chosen has a pretty good argument. Every poster is supporting the war effort in America, I want to I've even deeper into explaining the arguement when I write my paper. Every poster I have chosen seems to grab your attention at the center then you move your eye to the top of them to the text then to the picture again. I think that these poster have great movement and get their point across.
Pathos: These posters in this series I will be doing my analysis on tug on the heart strings of the American public in a few different ways. One of the ways is that they make you feel sympathy for the men fighting in the front line. Another way they pull emotion out of you is using fear of Germany invading the mainland United States, and that sharing secret information can sink ships.
Arrangement: Even though this is a paper I still need to keep the arrangement of the text and posters into account. I have to make sure that my pictures are next to the text about them so my readers do not get confused about which poster I am analyzing.
Here are the posters I have chosen.
Writing Project Three:
The purpose of my synthesis paper is to synthesize articles by Chris Carter, Alan Blinder, and Carol D'Amico. To argue for how to best prepare for working life in which change is constant, I will argue that college, and learning to stand out, and working with groups during college is the best way to prepare for the work world.
I will also argue this preparation will require a development of a mix of skills to create success in the work place. These include a solid education of the college level, A specialized skill in the field you are planning to enter into, an d I will also show how college may also not be good decision for some.
Design plan:
The design of this paper will be in MLA format so I do not have to worry to much about the set up of the paper. I will have to use my synthesis worksheet, and the article to gain my points of my paper.
Ethos:
I am a college student preparing for the working world. I believe that college has helped me so much more than just jumping into the work place. I have learned a lot of great skills to set me apart from the non college goer, to make me look more marketable to employers.
Pathos: I believe that if you do not get a college education you will find it harder or even impossible to find a job where the job market is becoming increasingly more and more competitive. If you want a good job in the future, you need to prepare for it now. That is why college is an important time in your life.
Logos: I will use writers: Chris Carter, Alan Blinder, and Carol D'Amico to show why college is the best route in todays job market and also to show my counter argument that college isn't always a good idea for some.
I will set up my paper as follows: I will start with Chris Carter in showing that college can be a good idea, then move to show that college might not be a good idea for some.
Writing Project 4:
The Purpose of this paper is to argue that stress in law enforcement is a big issue, also synthesis the articles and books I have gathered from all of my research. I will argue that Stress in law enforcement is a big issue and highlight all of the issues that are caused my stress and stress overload. I will also provide one counter argument which will show some benefits of stress.
Design Plan:
My paper will be in MLA format just like the last so I do not confuse myself when writing and citing my paper. I will probably have 2-3 body paragraphs and one counter argument paragraph. I want my argument to seem more important that my counter argument so I will not get to into how stress can be good.
Ethos:
I have seen with my own eyes what stress can do to an individual and his or her family. I want to bring to light the evils stress can bring out in good people.
Logos:
I will use the writers Sewell, Bradway, Thompson, McCabe, and Kirschman, Kamena, Fay. to show my audience that stress is a terrible thing that is ruining good honest peoples lives with its broad effects it can have on the human body, mind, and social life.
Pathos:
Learning about stress now will help prepare you for a job in law enforcement. You will be able to recognize the effects of stress and be able to get help or just relax after a day of working.
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