self-reflective essay-ME!!!!!!!

As a writer, I do not consider myself a successful/good writer; I have nothing to be proud of my writing. I am proud of what I have done and my efforts because I put one hundred percent of effort into my assignments. I don’t think I am the best one in this English class, but I think I am one of greatest efforts because I know the success lies upon my effort. I have a lot of grammar mistakes in my writing assignments, which I have to admit. So I try to change this situation, and I spend all of my studied time to study English. I improve my writing skill by writing a lot of essay. I think I do a better job at the free-writing assignments than the assigned topic ones because it is easier. I don’t need to spend much time to search the information about my topic; I can write whatever I want. To become a good writer, I must have the right attitude. So that it can become my learning advantage I write every writing assignment by my heart; I enjoy every writing assignment. I do not want to lose any chance to practice my English writing.

My attitude of writing has changed that is a positive aspect. There are a lot of writing assignments in English 1020. This is my idea before, which the weekly assignments just count one point, and I think it is not really important. Finally I find out it is really helpful; it is a best way to improve/practice my writing skill. I put away those foolish ideas and become serious. Also I like to use the blog to post my writing assignment because it becomes an advantage in the English 1020 class. To read every classmate’s essay and make common on the personal essay; I can get more ideas from different writing style of essay, which have become the public resource. It will help me a lot for my writing. So I spend more time to read the essays of English 1020 blog; I make the common in the essay after I read. So I know what is going on in the essay and how the writer organizes this essay. As Confucius’ advice say: “choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day in your life.” I know to improve English skill and change my attitude of writing is my job.

In my processes for my writing, I have to focus on the purpose of my writing, and definite my central theme. For example, I have to point out the argument of the Rhetorical analysis essay before I analyze my argument. The author’s argument is that Coke Soda and Pepsi Soda taste is not all that different not a big deal. The writing processes are divided into five steps. First, I determine a topic of essay. Second, I find the information about the topic as much as I can. Third, I list clear ideas of the essay. Fourth, follow the ideas I list to write the essay. Firth, I have to have a strong conclusion. Also I have to make a stronger connection between two paragraphs; the readers can follow my ideas. My thinking would become clearer and uncertainties by follow those processes. I think this is the level of writing a raise! I think it is very important to conference with my teacher because I can get detail information about my writing assignment. Let the teacher read my essay and make the common in the essay before I post; I know which part I need work on. I have time to make the essay ever better.

To determined “good writing.” There are a clear topic, a focal point, strong connections, clear ideas, correct grammar, words use, and a strong conclusion. A clear topic is the dominant and soul of the essay. The focal point is an interesting part of this essay because it is easy to grab the audiences’ attention; it supports the topic of essay. The clear ideas are very important because the readers can follow your ideas easily. A strong conclusion can conclude all of ideas that you want to tell the reader. I have no idea to evaluate my own writing and that of others because my writing is too bad and I am in the lowest English level. In my own writing I don’t use present and past, grammar and vocabulary well; also I can’t completely understand the teacher’s requirement.

I apply my knowledge about writing to situations outside the UC-D composition classroom well. For example, I use my writing knowledge to write my chemistry lab report, and I help my mother write the letters to the government department. That is why I like this class so much. Here, I need to thank Joshua again. He is a very good and nice teacher; he uses his knowledge to teach me and improve my English writing skill.

Rhetorical Aalysis- The coke side of life

The Coke side of life is a great, funny, and interesting advertisement. It is a parody of coke advertisement and is created by Director Justin Pearson. The author’s argument is that Coke soda and Pepsi soda taste is not all that different not a big deal. Author uses satirical approach exaggerated emotional appeals to get audiences to laugh, to feel humor & to question the way that soda advertisement are produced.

The text massage of this advertisement represents the creator’s purpose, which makes fun for audiences. It uses rhetorical appeals in combinations that produce an overarching effect such as irony and humor; this forms of humor are basically appeal to pathos because they put the audience in the right emotional state to be receptive to the argument; also they can involve reasoning or the use of the writer’s authority to sway the audience. This advertisement uses narration, definition, comparison-contrast, example & illustration, description strategies, and these strategies are equally effective in the written and visual texts in the advertisement.

A description of the advertisement is about a man, who buy a coke in the store, and the seller takes a can of Pepsi instead of coke and put it in the coke cup for the man. The man drinks the Pepsi soda, and then he goes into a coma and falls down on the floor. His girlfriend kneels down and tries to get help from someone, and then a big man walks in the store and brings a bottle of coke; the patient regains consciousness after he drinks the coke soda.

In the beginning of the advertisement, the creator uses a little bit of playful and sad music. When the big man walks in the store; light shine from his back. He looks like a hero of western movies in this advertisement; the director shoots man from his foot, which makes him look bigger. There is a whistling sound like an old movie in this advertisement. The lady shows a helpless expression, which is a real demonstrative moment. This Pathos expresses an appeal to the emotions. The director attempts to put the audience into a particular emotional state so that the audience will be receptive to and ultimately convinced by the speaker’s message. The director designs to produce an emotional effect on the audience.

The definition of the advertisement is Coke soda is better than Pepsi soda. The comparison-contrast of the ads is that the creator compares the Pepsi soda with the Coke soda, and the creator proves the Coke soda is better than the Pepsi soda for the audiences. The example & illustration of the ads is that the creator shows a very funny and interesting story for the audiences. But it is just an exaggerated uses of pathos Coke advertisement, and these strategies of persuasion successfully move their audience, the creator exaggerates the appeal to emotion for the more dramatic effect. There aren’t any celebrities or a famous place to increase the persuasive relationship to a cultural movement in this advertisement. I think the “Coke VS Pepsi Taste Test” can increase the persuasive of this advertisement relationship to a cultural movement.

The parody has long been recognized as an effective rhetorical strategy for making a powerful argument. The argument is based on ethical principles. The ethos works as a rhetorical strategy by establishing the goodwill or credibility of the speaker. In the TV show “Coca VS Pepsi taste test;” I hear that Pepsi won a taste test. So did Coca. How can this be? Coca tastes better than Pepsi, and Pepsi tastes better than Coke. What this shows, which we already knew, is that there is not much difference between Coca and Pepsi. Some people prefer Coke, some prefer Pepsi. Most people do not have a preference. But, I am mystified. Why do they even conduct taste tests? Do people really decide on what they drink based on other people's preferences? Don't they try both, and then decide for themselves? Or are people really sheep who will follow other sheep? That must be it. By the way, they are probably cheating on those taste tests. They probably report only favorable taste tests, and throw out the unfavorable ones. In the advertisement the director just wants to make some funny to the audiences. The ethos expresses an appeal to character. In the general, coke or Pepsi taste the same, and it is hard to tell them. The creator states emotional statement that relies on the character of the speaker to be believed; the strong line of reasoning employs by a speaker to build authority. The rhetorical appeal of the logos is used because we know the Pepsi can’t make people death; maybe we can say it is just a silly advisement. From the advisement we can see the man does not swallow the Pepsi; he just spouts the Pepsi out from his mouth. It just likes a “soap opera;” using the pathos appeal to generate a certain feeling in the audience.

This advisement uses all three of the rhetorical appeals to support the author’s argument. The showing that the tasting of one soda over the other one; it is not really a matter of life & death. It just like a “soap opera” satirical approach really cause audiences to reconsider what it feels like to drink either coca or Pepsi. The humor is included in this commercial, and it just wants to make for an enjoyable experience for all the audiences. Let the audience know that this is not a commercial advertisement; it provides universal entertainment.

Print based source:

1. the Envision2.pdf (from the english 1020 information.)

2. website pepsi coke taste test, Copyright 1997, Jim Loy(http://www.jimloy.com/issues/coke.htm).