The ad analysis that we recently wrote has been one of my favorite activities we’ve done so far this year in English 110. This paper didn’t simply require you to just give you opinions on what you saw or observed, but rather it made you think deeper into some hidden message. This allows each person to dwell on his/her own thoughts about their specific topic. To me, this is more rewarding to a writer. In our previous papers, we pretty much had to just give our opinions about certain aspects. For the ad analysis, not only did we have to give our opinions about what our ads were trying to convey, but also what evidence we could uncover to support that opinion. While I’m not saying that my other works of writing were simply written half heartedly with no conviction, I felt that this paper took the most thought to write. I feel that this bring a new level to the paper, or at least it did mine, that compels the reader to keep reading to find out what message you are getting at.
Not only did the assignment make me dig deeper into the ad to write a quality paper, I also found it sort of entertaining. To be honest, if I had never heard about this assignment, I probably never would have looked deeper into any ad to find some hidden message. But now that I’ve completed it, I think it’s kind of cool to see what a seemingly simple magazine ad can really be saying or conveying.
I agree on that point fella, the ad analysis is one of the better assigments of this semester. I found it to be challenging and I like to give my opinion on everything so this felt like home. Since I did your peer response I did think you had a good ad and it seemed like you were able to convey it's point accurately. Good job.
ReplyDeleteMost definitely. It was nice to have a paper in which we were able to go beyond the surface. I had a harder time with this paper but I learned how to express my opinion and find evidence to support myself. I think this was a good lead into the cultural film analysis to get ready for expressing our original opinion and then finding professional evidence to support what we have to say. Hopefully, although I had a hard time with the ad analysis, I learned and the film analysis will not be incredibly hard.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to "enjoy" the cultural film analysis, Jack.
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