There were three speakers: Anna McCarthy, Heather Hendershot, and Mark Greif. Honestly, I didn’t really care for the two women who went first. The seminar was supposed to be about television, but the first two women barely mentioned television, they mainly talked about citizenship and politics. I only enjoyed listening to Mark Greif. I feel like he framed his speech around college students. He realized his target audience was college students and he incorporated things to catch our attention. I feel that the two women didn’t base their speeches around a college student audience.
In Mark Greif’s speech, he discussed how reality television isn’t exactly the best example of television. He talked about how we view the Price is Right as featuring regular citizens while when we watch reality shows, such as The Kardashians’s, we don’t see them as regular citizens. Both shows are containing non-actors, but because they are famous they don’t seem like regular citizens to us. His speech should have just been the main speech for the 2:55 session because I didn’t get anything out of the two other women’s speeches.
-I learned that the way the essay is formatted really effects the way a person perceives the essay. You can use different fonts and styles in order to enforce emphasis on a sentence or phrase. The way an essay is formatted can determine whether or not your audience will understand the message you are trying to send. If there is too many styles used within one essay like this one, it will not be easy on the eyes to read and the reader will most likely not continue on with reading it.
Second Activity
This is my magazine article
I like the way this article is set up because it starts with a big, colorful picture of the main Las Vegas strip and it is taken in a way that is appealing to the eye. Once an audience sees this picture they will be enticed to visit Las Vegas and will read on in the article in order to find out what Las Vegas has to offer. The different things about Las Vegas are listed in a numeric order with a bolder font for each topic. The article starts off with an introduction of Las Vegas and then leads into the lists of attractions. Each topic offers a picture like explained before. There are links within the article that are in a different color and are underlined and italicized so that they stand out to the human eye. This article is easy to follow along and the subtopics are short enough that they hold my attention.
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