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7-4 Assignment: Ads and Motive Appeals

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Good evening everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful and relaxing weekend, and welcome back to another blog. After a strenuous week of tests, projects, and midterms, I can settle on something a little easier. And thankfully, our professor gave us the right assignment for the job. Our task this week was to discuss and find evidence of motive appeals within ads that we watch in our day-to-day lives. While doing research, we had 15 motive appeals that we had a sort of baseline to what we needed to find within an ad of our choice Now, there are plenty of ads I could have chosen from, and all would have been good options for this assignment. Frankly, I spent about 20 minutes skipping through my music playlist to get some ads on YouTube to work with. I eventually settled on one ad in particular since it kept getting  recommended to me, and it's one I personally connect with.  With a sort of throwback to what the game originally was, Fortnite released a trailer hyping up the ...

3-2 Assignment and Discussion: WCC PASSAGE Play Auditions + Interviews

Good evening everyone, I hope you are all having a pleasant evening.   In today's assignment, our group was tasked with venturing around our Campus to explore and find events that had been going on, and write a feature article on said events. Originally I had planned to do a Art Club Luncheon that had occurred on October 4th, but I unfortunately slept right through it. (Quite professional, I know. Definitely wouldn't slide in the news room, I'd already be packing my stuff because I KNOW I would be fired over something like that.) Anyways, thankfully I was able to find an event going on the following day, as a friend of mine (Who I interviewed in this news story) told me about auditions going on for a play, so I figured I'd get that done since it was convenient. Here's what I had come up with, and I'm pretty happy with it, honestly. Definitely feels professional, and I'm happy I was able to come up with something like this for my first go at writing news. ...

A Retrospective on Professional Writing - Tony's Take

Good evening, everyone, great to have you guys back! Recently, as our next unit draws to a close, we've come to reflect on our writing styles, and with the last assignment, our collective got to witness how distinct all of our writings really are. As a closer, we were tasked with reflecting on professional standards, and some key takeaways from it. The following questions are some of my thoughts on the given subject matter, so I hope you enjoy! . . . As we have learned so far in this text, accuracy, brevity, and clarity are three chief goals of media writing. How do style and language conventions help writers to advance those goals? The main advantage to adhering to style and language conventions is that they help writers convey information in a clear and concise manner while maintaining the integrity and credibility of the content. Accurate, brief, and clear messages leave a stronger impact on the reader’s mind, letting them absorb more of what a media writer is trying to convey...

Testing our GSP Knowledge - Turn Poor Writing into Good Writing

Good evening everyone! Recently, our collective group was tasked with updating and fixing three separate paragraphs with all sorts of grammatical errors in them. This puts our knowledge on our Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation skills to the test, along with a few miscellaneous errors within as well. While this was the main objective of the assignment, I also want to take the opportunity to see how I compared to my fellow peers as well. I know for sure a few of my changes may seem a bit unnecessary or not needed, but it personally felt right to have these changes included, so I would love to hear your feedback for how you re-write these sentences. Anyways, thank you for taking the time to read my blog, apologies if it was short, but we'll be back with a longer one soon enough. Have a wonderful day everyone! Key: Bold = Spelling and/or word Change / Punctuation / ~ a  = Removed Word HL = Capitalization Italics = Added word Original: Saturday was a glorios , ~special~ day, ~so so~ p...