Formatting for blogger wasn't working with the pictures of my ads embedded, link above will take you to google doc with my essay :)
Taking Stock of My Wrting Qs:
1. How did you go about analyzing the text? What methods did you use—and which ones were most helpful?
When I set out to analyze my ads, I found it helpful to focus on the visuals provided first. I thought it was easier to tie in the slogans on my ads after talking about what information I gathered from the picture. I also thought it was really helpful to look up the organization that published the ad. I spent a fair amount of time looking through each organization’s website, reading their mission statements.
2. How did you go about drafting your essay?
I broke it up into parts. Similar to the “Stay Sweet as You Are” essay, I wanted to talk about each ad individually before I talked about all of them together. The first thing I did was draft my thesis, trying to figure out how to guide my readers into my analysis. I went back and added a more interest catching information to my thesis after I had written out most of my essay.
3. How well did you organize your written analysis? What, if anything, could you do to make it easier to read?
I think my organization is pretty straightforward. I don’t see another way I could organize the information to make it easier to understand.
4. Did you provide sufficient evidence to support your analysis?
I think I did. All of the points of my analysis are based directly upon a part of the visual or text from my ad.
5. What did you do especially well?
I think each individual ad analysis is pretty strong by itself.
6. What could still be improved?
More could be added to my paragraph talking about all the ads together. I also think my opening paragraph could be stronger.
7. Did you use any visuals, and if so, what did they add? Could you have shown the same thing with words?
I added visuals of all of my ads, as I think it’s important for the reader to be able to see where my points are coming from. I definitely think I needed pictures of my ads, they are essential to being able to follow my analyses.
8. How did other readers' responses influence your writing?
I was given more viewpoints I had not seen when I first looked at my ads. These extra points were helpful for me, getting another set of eyes to look at your work always allows you to see something new.
9. What would you do differently next time?
I would think more carefully about what I want to say about my group of ads when I was choosing them.
10. Are you pleased with your analysis? What did it teach you about the text you analyzed? Did it make you want to study more works by the same writer or artist?
I am fairly pleased with my essay as a whole. The environment is already something I care about a lot, and analyzing how these organizations are trying to get people to care about the situation connected with me on a personal level.
11. What are the transferrable skills you can take from this into other writing situations?
Analyses are important parts of life, I will most likely have to analyze more texts in my life, and this was a good way to practice organizing my thoughts into words, which I can struggle with.
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