Final Reflection

English 103 focuses on the theme Culture, Identity, and Society. We finished assignments on visual rhetoric, including the ideas of logos, pathos, and ethos, and assignments that focused on our ability to use technology. We incorporated rhetoric into each assignment throughout the semester, and used rhetoric as a main tool of influence and argumentation to either persuade or move our audience to our point of view.
In the first assignment on advertisements, we focused our attention on how well an advertisement accomplished bringing in clientele for its business and how rhetoric was displayed in pictures, words, and setting. In our second assignment, we conducted research on important issues in our society today, and tied together background information of the issue and personal ideas about how our culture should react to the issue. In our third assignment, we used rhetorical strategies to develop an argument about either problems in our immediate society or in our broad culture today. We used technology, including Windows MovieMaker and digital cameras, to capture videos and pictures that would generate and support our argument.
Each assignment incorporated rhetorical ideas to provide basis for argument, but also included influences from culture, our own personal identities, and society. English 103 has taught us to use rhetoric to form our ideas over an argument and use them to define our place in society today.

p. 210-Group Discussion

1. Our presentation will consist of our movie and pictures with oral speech.
2. Our audience is the class, students who also have eaten at the dining halls and understand everything we're talking about in the videos. That common background will help our audience relate to our purpose and views. Our audience deals with dining hall food everyday and will probably agree with us completely.
3. Our purpose is to show how bad the dining hall food is and to convince enough people to try to change what is offered in dining halls.
4. Our presentation is considered deliberative or legislative discourse. It is designed to argue a position.
5. We want to come across as concerned and friendly to our audience. I want to be seen as an equal that happens to be doing something about a common problem.
6. We want to use an informative and concerned tone in this paper.
7. We'll use quotes and data from research and photographs and videos in a movie/photo essay.

p. 219

Format for our presentation:
Our presentation will sort of be a mix between a photo essay, with pictures and written comments about the pictures, and a movie, with videos and interviews with people around campus.
Materials used for our presentation:
Digital camera with video, Windows Movie Maker
Potential outline:
-What foods could be better
-What students want to replace the current dining hall foods
-What dining hall faculty think is available to replace dining hall food
-What are some healthier choices available