Friday, July 3, 2015

Blog 7: Model Text Recipe

1.              This text used color, images, links (if your looking at it online), logos, diagrams, and boarders.
2.              A.) The audience for this magazine/brochure is for college students that are looking to find out or model how to make an effective brochure.  It shows someone how to make a good brochure in the context of an informative letter or packet similar to what I am making.
B.) The author uses “your” a lot he is talking about when you make your project, include this and this and make sure to do this.  He is being more personally when he used your.
C.) The author constructs an assertive relationship with the audience. Since he is telling them how to do something he needs to talk like he knows what he is doing.
D.) I can tell the author is aware of his audience when he says, “Are you persuading or informing?”  By saying this he is helping the readers figure out what they did and how his information can help them.
3.              A.) The authors contrast their view in their writing by telling the readers how to make a guide and a brochure properly.  They are trying to appear knowledgeable and a reliable source to use. 
B.) Since this information was put out by UNL, it is not only on the behalf of one person writing; therefore they do not use I or we they just talked about making the actual brochure and guide itself.
4.              A.) The purpose of this writing to inform the reader on how to properly make a useful guide or effective brochure.
B.) The title of this piece is “How to Create an Effective Brochure”  from this point on the reader knows what the main topic of the writing will be about. 
C.) “This guide will help you create a professional, eye-catching, and valuable brochure.”  This was stated at the beginning of the writing letting the reader know what the intended purpose for this writing was. 
5.              For outside research the author at the end shares with the reader some website to get more information on creating an effective brochure and guide.  Other than that they do not use any other outside research. 
6.              A.) The authors organize the data into shorter paragraphs, each about a different point.  They bring up the different topics by using a smaller title to introduce the idea and then they proceed from there.
B.) The author used words like before, next, after and lastly to describe the order of the things you need to do, in order to make a successful brochure or guide. 
7.              A.) This is a informative guide/article. 
B.) Conventions-  title, two column information, tables, pictures, bold faced headings, bullet points
8.              A.) The author used images and diagrams to show how to make the brochure if that’s what you were going for.  They just put those in the text that went with that topic.
B.) The pictures and diagrams are showing the readers more of what the author’s are talking about and they can see what to do better.
C.) They use images, and diagrams.
D.) The authors add pictures to give the writing more character and add more to the page to look at, along with assisting in the author trying to get his point across.  
E.) The pictures are added in the areas that they are describing so they add them in appropriate places in the writing according to what they are displaying. 
9.              Reverse Outline-
Title with the name of the company
Main heading with people who wrote it under
Next there are two column shorter paragraphs with smaller sub headings
Bullet points with other side information
Diagrams, pictures and explanations in the next section about the topic
The author organized in this order because he wanted to do a sequential order of how you would put together the brochure or guide that it is telling you how to make.
Ending- closed note about the topic and a closing section for citations
10.          A.) The author used times new roman font and they probably chose this because it was easy to read and is not distracting.
B.) They used bold and a bigger font on the heading and titles to get the paragraphs sectioned off and give the reader a break so that it is not all just one big paragraph of information. 
C.) The text is wrapped around the pictures and images and the main text is in two columns and is organized in shorter paragraphs. 
D.) Most of the text is in black and white with the headings bolded.  Although, some color is used on the images and a few of the headings.
E.) They use diagrams as I already talked about to demonstrate how to make the brochure a little easier.





Instructions for Making a Magazine for People Graduating College

Ingredients-

Headings
Title
Pictures with captions
Multiple pages
Cover page
Materials- nice paper/binder/cover folder
Stories/articles about topic
Purpose for writing



Steps-

1.              Decide what the purpose for writing this magazine is and decide what the main take away points are for your readers.
2.              Find articles and stories relating to your topic and take away points that would be captivating for your specific audience. 
3.              Find and decide on pictures and images that you would like to include in your magazine and make sure that they contribute to the overall message.  If you are not making these images yourself make sure to include a page at the end or on the back side of the final page for your works cited to give the image and article authors credit. 
4.              Decide on a intriguing but informational title for your magazine.  Make sure it catches the readers’ eye but at the same time they are able to figure out what that issue will be discussing. 
5.              Start making the cover page.  The cover page should not have not many words; it needs to be on the simple side and more eye catching with easy to read font and colorful images. 
6.              Continue making the rest of the pages keeping in mind that readers want to see colorful images and easy to read font throughout the magazine.

7.              When you think your magazine in completed then print it off on nicer glossy paper and use a nice binder or cover sleeve to make it look more presentable. 

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Blog 6: Added revisions for Project 3

As I explained in my original blog post, I am going to making my project 3 on life-long learning.  I want to make either a brochure or a newspaper or both for a university about how when you graduate learning will change but never disappear completely.   I want to show that learning is not going to be only going to be when you are in school but something that you will need throughout your life.  I explained a lot more in my originally post but I just wanted to add my ideas on doing a newspaper.