Second Blog Assignment

 Audience awareness is extremely important when writing because it influences everything from topic to word choice and sentence structure. As students, you often write only for your instructor. Let's be honest, this can make your writing terribly dry and boring. Blogging is a potential way to reinforce the need for audience awareness because you are writing for a "worldwide" audience not just your instructor.

Your first blog assignment this week is to examine the advertisements below.  View by simply clicking on each video. Explain: Who do you think the intended audience is and why for each ad? Be sure to utilize specific details from the ad to elaborate on your "why." Why should we be critical of intended audience in advertisements and other information that surrounds us?

First Blog Assignment and Requirements

Welcome to the blogging experience! You will be keeping a blog as part of Composition 1 this spring semester. Your blogging requirements:

• You need to post to your blog at least one entry each week. This entry needs to be one complete paragraph following standards of good grammar and punctuation. Generally, your weekly entry will be based on a writing prompt that I will post for you on the class blog; however, sometimes your post will be based on a topic of your own choosing.

Once everyone has created their blog, you will be able to find a list (labeled "students") at the right hand side of this class blog page that will link you to everyone's blog, if you are interested in reading what your classmates post.

For your first blog today, I would like you to respond to the following prompt:
You wake up in jail and have no memory of how you got there. As you pace around the cell, you find three items in your pocket from the night before. As you look at each piece, the night slowly comes back to you. Write about your night, why you have these three items (and give a detailed description of each of these items), and how you ended up in jail.

Have fun blogging!!