Week 10, Blog 1 (RA)

Audience: Vacationers! Or maybe just honeymooners...

WATCO: Choosing Best Western for lodging when traveling ON having the vacation of your life?

Claim: Choosing Best Western for lodging when traveling ensures that you'll be having the vacation of your life,

Reason: Because choosing Best Western for lodging when traveling means the party of your vacation never stops!

IA: whatever means the party of your vacation never stops ensures that you're having the vacation of your life.

Ethos: The cute sunset gives the impression of happiness and carefree days. The bright colors give the feeling of a part that isn't going to fade. The sun is going down, the day is done, and the picture is still full of fun.

Pathos: Best Western is a very well-known name. Its service is dependable and can be expected across the country wherever your travels take you.

Logos: The small box on the right corner give details and reasons to choose Best Western as your overnight lodging over any other company. The picture itself doesn't have any logos, but the disclaimers at the bottom take care of that.

I think overall the picture is a little white-trashish. Best Western is kind of known as a cheap choice for a hotel/motel, and I feel like they are trying to talk themselves up. However, if I was traveling I would need a cheap place to stay, and would consider this ad because of the bright colors and cute picture.

Week 9, Blog 2 (RA)

Audience: people who like music of folk-bluesy riff on New York mornings, America, relationships, and God

WATCO: Listening to Richard Julian's music ON living the good life?

Claim: Listening to Richard Julian's music gives the impression of living the good life,

Reason: Because listening to Richard Julian's music encompasses everything simple, enjoyable, and sentimental.

IA: whatever simple, enjoyable, and sentimental gives the impression of living the good life.

Ethos: This picture is very strong on emotional appeal. The old worn chairs almost inevitably bring sentimental memories to any age group. The room--at least in these colors--looks very inviting and friendly. The tattered appearance gives the impression that no one expects too much of you, and life can be simple and good. The tricycle especially brings carefree feelings and lighthearted memories with people we love. Any aspect that reminds the viewer of children will most likely have a cheerful effect.

Pathos: The pathos of this picture seems to be relying fully on the notion that the viewer has already heard of the singer. If there is no sort of personal connection with the artist, there isn't much pathos to the picture.

Logos: There isn't much logic in this picture either. The CD cover is playing on the idea that the "good life," that we so often think of as high rolling, is actually found in torn-up arm chairs on a taped-up picture. Because we all that money can't buy happiness, the CD may seem to have some understanding of the "good life" that we don't grasp, which may give the picture more credit and make it appear sensible.

I think overall the picture is quite effective, since it is the cover to a CD and the sentimental appeal is usually the strongest when dealing with music anyway. I want to buy the CD now, and I've never heard of the guy before...

Week 9, Blog 1 (TA)

1

WATCO: Living in Utah all your life ON your ability to understand the world around you?

Enthymeme: Living in Utah all your life does not sufficiently equip you with an ability to understand the world around you because

Reason: living in Utah all your life means you will be sheltered from the world.

IA: Whatever shelters you from the world detrimentally effects your ability to understand the world around you.

2

WATCO: Eating lots of carbs the night before a race ON your running performance?

Enthymeme: Eating lots of carbs the night before a race will positively affect your running performance because

Reason: eating lots of carbs the night before a race ensures your body the energy needed.

IA: Whatever ensures your body the energy needed will positively affect your running performance.

3

WATCO: Working and attending school ON school performance?

Enthymeme: Working and attending school positively effects school performance because

Reason: Working and attending school makes students better manage their time.

IA: Whatever makes students better manage their time positively effects school performance.

Week 8, Blog 3 (Freewrite)

Life at BYU: bringing families together.

Little brothers are so great! Especially my little brother. He’s really just a child—a college freshman child—but that’s why I’m here. I take care of him. He leaves on a mission in the summer, but that gives me plenty of time to finish off teaching him the last minute training my parents didn’t get to do. There’s really no one better equipped for the job of telling Derek what the world is all about than me, his older sister. I’ve also found the most ideal time for us to sit and chat about the real world above all others is lunch time. This is most convenient, because that’s about the same time I start getting hungry. It guarantees that I will inevitably be with him when I’m ready for my meal, and no upstanding gentleman (even if he is a brother) will let a lady go hungry if he has the means to feed her. And anyway, he owes me. I teach him the secrets of the universe! He really is a wonderful boy. I wish everyone at BYU could have a little brother.

P.S. Why is it little brothers are always taller brothers too?

Week 8, Blog 2 (TA)

Audience: foster parents in Utah

- usually have a good marriage
- receive monetary reimbursement and other benefits
- have monthly house inspections
- participated in training opportunities and technical assistance
- Pre-service training which consists of 8 classes (32 hours).
- able to maintain a safe and secure environment
- verification of being financially stable (enough money to meet the needs of the family)
- have a recent physical exam for the home caregiver and other adult family members
- age 21 or older
- Child Abuse Data Base Screening/Criminal Background Screening Release Form
- Couples in a cohabitating relationship are not eligible to become Foster/Adoptive Parents in Utah.
- legal residents of the United States and Utah
- may be married, single, divorced or widowed
- are physically, mentally, and emotionally able to care for children
- have provided at least five references to vouch for their parenting abilities
- safe residence
- have access to transportation

Week 8, Blog 1 (RA)

Audience: women in the 50s

WATCO: Buying Double Mint Gum ON being attractive and getting good-looking men?

Claim: Buying Double Mint Gum easily enhances being attractive and getting good-looking men,

Reason: Because buying Double Mint Gum "aids your digestion, breath, [and] nerves."

IA: whatever "aids your digestion, breath, [and] nerves" easily enhances being attractive and getting good-looking men.

Ethos: There are three pictures of beautiful women here, each very appealing to women in the 50s, who want to get the best for their families and to look the best while doing it. Double Mint Gum is "for you and yours...healthful, delicious." The woman walking her dog seems so happy and carefree and day is beautiful--something all women want.

Pathos: There are a lot of words disclaiming the validity of this gum. That could either be a good sign or a bad sign: maybe there is just too much to say about this gum, or maybe the company feels the need to say everything good about the gum that can be said so customers will overlook the faults of the product.

Logos: The logic in this ad is not very convincing--one of their main arguments is the the "healthy" qualities of the gum. Honestly, can gum really have that much nutritional benefit?

All in all I think the ad may have been effective to wives and mothers of the 50s, but it would never fly in society today. The emotional and logical appeals are directed too much to the 50s frame of mind of women as beautiful housewives.

Week 7, Blog 3 (Freewrite)

Life at BYU: Saturday at the Wilk...

So today I was walking through the Wilk when I suddenly heard a chorus of very masculine voices shouting and umphing, accompanied with the stomps and pounds that can only mean one thing: Tongans. …and Samoans, and Fijians, and Hawaiians, and in short, Polynesians of all sorts and sizes who have gotten together for another ritualistic dance. Don’t get me wrong—I’m quite entertained with the combination of moves and sounds and facial expressions (especially) of these mighty men. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t stop the smile from erupting across my face as their boisterous bellowing echoed through the Wilkinson Center hallways. Especially when, passing the doorway to the blameworthy room, I saw the scrawny little white boys (at least compared to those Tongans—they probably were still much bigger than me…) stomping and yelling in the back and trying so very hard to be fearsome. What were they doing in there? Did they think they would fool anyone? White boys just can’t do that stuff. It’s not that the dance moves are all that complicated…but no one can deny it was made solely for the dark, fleshy, gigantic Polynesians who used this drill in preparation for war. New lesson for BYU life: always listen for the deep rumbling voices of Tongan men. You’re in for entertainment.

P.S. Unga? Probably the best last name ever.