Podcast writing journal

A problem I had faced during the research and composition of the podcast was that I had to condense the information I researched to last the five minutes. A webtext has more information and multiple sections within the research that  covered unlike the podcast. It is easier to establish logos, ethos, and pathos in-text rather than verbally through podcast. You can't bore the audience with a monotone recording. In the podcast attributions were given by using according to or so and so said this about the subject. I have heard this before in speeches and on the news. This attribution provides credibility to the research and importance of quote. Within the podcast ethos was established by having an interest in the matter and giving feedback from the knowledge. Logos was established by using attributions or quotes from sources. Pathos was shown by how people feel about the subject matter on wind energy.

Podcast summary

The podcast reviewed the three tools to persuade people in a certain topic. They included: logos- appeal by logic or reason; Ethos- persuasive appeal for credibility, and Pathos- appeal by emotion. They were developed in Ancient Greece by Arostatal. The podcast also mentioned business communication. It said that meetings can get pretty miserable for workers because of boring, over long, power points.  Audiences aren’t thinking about the meeting; their minds are elsewhere.  The podcast also says by simply rethinking visual communication you can grab the audience in a way they would like to apprehend the information.

Rhetorical analysis

The audience refers to smokers and anyone who knows a smoker. The purpose is to advertise quitting. The context shows a man in an image advertised on the back of a community bus. It is ironic that the smoke coming out of his mouth is also the exhaust smoke of the bus.


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The Big Picture

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Content analysis
I see fire and violence portrayed in the image. There are a group of people praising the hatred of the President along with the American flag. It can be looked at in different ways based on beliefs by different ethnicities. We see it as something wrong when they might see it as they aren’t doing anything wrong. This image is effective because it shows the story in the picture as a visual message.

Visual analysis
The protesters hung the flag and picture on a fence to set fire to so that all can see. The ‘X’ marked on the picture of the president represents dislike. The flame from the flag shows disrespect and hate toward the americans. The red writing and ‘x’ mark is associated with violence and warfare.

Contextual analysis
The article along with the image informs about the anti-islam video protests. The overall text and image blend together to portray the same pathos. The text just explains what is exactly going on. The textual information is intended to be factual and informs the audience. This context was provided merely for informational use and news to keep audiences updated of current events in the world.

Summarize: This article explains different ways Solar Energy can be produced and how. It states that heat production by solar is less harmful to the environment than fossil fuel combustion. The article also gives detailed descriptions of scientific theories and the conversion process.

Assess: The resource is up to date and the information comes from a scientist and a professor of chemistry which makes it credible.

Reflect: I plan on using this source in my project because it provided the detailed scientific process of producing solar energy. This source was helpful and had a lot of important facts and information that I can use for my project.

Source: Crabtree,G., Lewis,N. (2007). Solar Energy Conversion. Retrieved from: authors.library.caltech.edu/7721/1/crapt07.pdf

Summarize: This article is about a plan for solar energy to take into effect within the next fifty years. In this plan it talks about 90% of the energy on earth to be produced in Solar panels all over the world.

Assess: The resource is up to date with its information and has facts given by the president of a solar company-Ken Zweibel, a director of the Solar Energy Campaign and Research Institute-James Mason, and the head of the Photovoltaic Environmental Research-Vasilis Fthenakis.

Source: Zweibel,K., Mason,J.,Fthenakis,V. (2008) www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v298/n1/fullscientificamerican-.html

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