AaronEliasUTEP

Section A: Link to my website!

https://tudaniela.wixsite.com/rws1302

Section B: As a writer!

 Ethos:

Homepage: I will also talk about my experience in this course by being completely honest to create more credibility. When talking about me, I will explain that I am a student from the University of Texas at El Paso and clearly state the purpose of the website.

Reflections: For this section, I will strive to have no grammatical/punctuation errors when writing the reflection for each assignment.

Logos:

Homepage: The content and structure of the homepage will represent the logo appeal. I will make sure all of my writing is clear and understandable.

Reflections: For this section, I will use graphics as examples/reflections of my writing to show how my assignment looked.

Pathos: 

Homepage: I will talk about me some of my interests and expectations for the class. I will talk about what that I enjoyed about the class assignments and some of the times that I struggled with the material. 

Reflections: Since reflections are talking about my feelings towards the class and assignments, I will use emotional language when writing them. I will implement the emotions I felt throughout the class: proud, joyful, overwhelmed, confused, etc.

Section C: As a designer!

Ethos: 

I will set ethos by adding some of my contact information, social media, and a picture of myself. I am also, thinking about adding some screenshots, or quotes from the RWS e-book to have more credibility. 

Logos: 

 I will also make sure that my website is easy to navigate and proportional by creating several tabs and divisions to separate each section. I will focus on the structure of my website to make It look organized.

Pathos:  

To appeal by emotion, I will use a professional style to design my website. I will include visuals both academic and personal to make it more personalized and to help the audience know me a little better. Of course, I will use emotional language when writing each section.

Goodbye everyone! Thank you for all your feedback, good luck in all your finals!

SECTION A:

1. The balance of the website between images and text is relatively even. However, the amount of info and size that it is displayed is very unappealing. It makes the website look like there isn’t much text, and the images are the main portion. The webpage designer could have done that on purpose, drawing more attention to the images because they are bigger, but it makes it look like the balance is thrown off.

2. The contrast within the webpage is overwhelming. There are so many different colors from headings to body text and linked text. The size of the text is all relatively tiny, so it makes it hard to see where the actual headings are for the different parts of the website.

3. The same goes for the consistency. It is all over the place. There are different colors like i mentioned before. There are also different fonts style and size for each heading and different paragraphs of body text. 

4. The website does an okay job at grouping things together, but the site is still confusing. I’m not really sure what exactly it is about, but from just giving it a quick glance I would be able to figure out where to find certain information. The alignment isn’t bad either, but there are some minor adjustments that could be made for the site to be a little more professional looking. The top section and middle section are off centered from the bottom section so that makes it a little distracting.

5. Like i said earlier from just glancing at the site as a whole it is hard to understand exactly what it is about. The size of the text makes it really hard to read, and the different fonts and colors makes all the wording very distracting and overwhelming.

1. The balance of this website is so much better in comparison to the 1st website we took a look at. The images and graphics are pretty much used as background tools for the text on the website. It makes it very visually appealing. Also the use of small graphics is also helpful.

2. The contrast in the webpage is helpful instead of hurtful like in the last one. The bigger text is specifically set out for headings and important text that needs to take a forefront from the rest of the text. 

3. The creator is very consistent with design throughout the entire website. There is a lot more to this website than the 1st, but the creator uses that to his advantage. The links that are created to guide you through the website are easily accessible and visible. The text is all relatively similar in style as well.

4. The alignment and grouping for this site is amazing. The links separate all the information into categories. You have a basic understanding of what you are going to find under each link when you click on it. The alignment helps make the website visually appealing and easy to navigate.

5. Overall the effectiveness of this website is great! It follows the same structure throughout making it easy to adapt to. The information is easily accessible, and readable. The website is visually appealing to top it all off. 

Now to talk about future plans for my own website……

SECTION B:

1. To ensure that my website is balanced their doesn’t necessarily have to have an even distribution of text to images even though that is the whole goal. Just making the layout of the website “seem” like they are even will be sufficient. If the first website would have switched up his layout and the size of all the text, it would have looked more balanced.

2. Making sure that there is a size difference when it comes to headings and body text will help ensure that the website has good contrast. Also setting up the text in a creative and visual way will help contrast the really important information on the website. 

3. Keeping the same format throughout the entire website instead of switching things up will ensure that the website has consistency. In this aspect going with the saying “sometimes simple is better” is my goal. If you have a simple lay-out with visually appealing yet readable text, it doesn’t mean the website is boring looking. Use the layout and images to make the website really pop and have a creative feel. Making sure that all the headings match and the text looks the same will ensure a more professional look.

4. Making sure that information that goes together is grouped together is the big goal when grouping text. Different links or tabs to a website can be useful tools when grouping. Making sure the website is aligned evenly just helps with visual appeal, and makes the website look more professional and put together. 

5. I think black and white are really good text colors when you have a pop of color in the background. If you have a neon-green background and fluorescent pink text that can be extremely unappealing and distracting. You don’t want the text or background to cause anyone to strain to see or comprehend. I’m not saying super dull colors are the way to go either, but just don’t get too crazy!

Because look at this! Whoever doesn’t get a headache after this, is crazy!!!

I will commit to this project as much as I can. I will use my free time to work on this assignment and those days include the weekend and Mondays.

I will be meeting up with my group on Wednesdays after RWS and Thursdays from 10:30 to 2:50. I will be working alone when I do not finish my part of the assignment when we were in a group.

My part of the assignment is to write about the diversity of Hispanics in the nursing field, that is what I will be focusing on when I meet up with my group members on those days

In order complete my part of the project I will use the research from the research paper and apply it to the poster. If further research is needed to complete the project I will undergo the necessary steps in order to supplement my writing.

An aspect of this assignment that I am concerned about is time because we all manage our time differently. The project will get done on time but hopefully it will be done a few days before the due date so we have time to revise and edit the poster.

It is now time to analyze and figure out how to make my own research poster……

Section A: Analyzing a Research Poster

1. Effects of Electrical stimulation on Schwann cell migration on polypyrrole substrate 

2. This poster is similar from the requirements for our own research poster in how the information is structured. For example it includes introduction, title, author, results, and conclusion. This poster provides short but precise paragraphs that are understandable which are also a requirement for our own research poster. Other requirement similarities are that in this poster they include images, colors, different fonts for titles and subtitles, which are helpful for the audience to read and have a better understanding of the poster. The requirement differences between this poster and our own is that the Intro is more of a background and a question-based information. Also, this poster provides the methods used and ours only requires the results because the topics for the poster are different. The information from this poster is more of science-method and our info would be more of a persuasive information.

3. The purpose of the poster is to show the effects of an electrical stimulation to cure nerve injuries and actually show how and why is it done like this and under what circumstances. The purpose of actually informing the audience is well done because they provide images showing the treatments and the methods of how can this nerve injury can be repaired. What they missed to include in this poster is the why does this nerve injury occur, and how to prevent it.

4. The intended audience for this poster is people with knowledge in biology because they include images that only people that know about biology would understand. Also, other intended audience for this poster would be people who are interested in knowing more about nerve injuries and how can it be repaired, because the poster also includes information that is understandable for someone not knowledgeable in science. The intended audience would also have to be young adults/adults because of the elevated level of information this poster includes, which a child would not understand.

5. This poster display ethos by including the schools in which this poster got the information from. These schools seem to be biology-related so they are really effective when it comes to providing credibility to the information. Also, it includes the names of the people who created these posters (Authors). This type of information provides trustworthiness because people can easily look for the schools and the authors to see if they are knowledgeable people.

6. This poster displays pathos by providing trustworthiness by the authors, and intellectual information which is not very effective. It is not effective because after providing all this information they ended with a conclusion of “hoping to” which displays confusion about the possibilities of this methods actually working.

7. This poster displays logos by providing a well structured and understandable poster, and this is effective because the audience could easily follow through. The sentences provided in this poster are also very straightforward, which helps the audience to understand the purpose of this poster. The only thing that this poster seemed to fail according to logos is the font size, which is not very clear and hard to understand the sentences.

Section B: Implications for your own research poster

1. I will use the sample and my own analysis towards guiding my own group research poster by following the structure and all the things that this poster seem to have in common with mine. Also, I really liked how the information was structured, in a way that it is not overwhelming. It also provides the sufficient images with its short but understandable text. My group and I may not do the same structure used in this poster, but I think it does gives us and idea of what a good poster can look like.

2. Our research poster outline was changed in a way that it gives us an idea of how an effective research poster should be done. At first, we were confused on how to structure the information but analyzing this poster gave us an idea of what should and should not be done according to ethos, pathos, and logos. Using the Rhetorical appeals to analyze this poster also helped me to follow the same analysis when it comes to my research poster.

FINALLY DONE!!!! and prepared to make my own research poster 

Finally! The Literature Review is done! Now it is time for a…

… ha get it? “Reflection” (; ANYWAYS….

1.     WHAT: Through my research, these past few weeks, I have learned so much about my fields and semester topic which is “Gender Diversity of Women Within Media Representation”. My research was focused on media and I have found that there are so many jobs and career paths when it comes to this field. Unfortunately, there are not very many women industry; men make up the majority of jobs in the media. Thankfully, I have found out that there are many actresses and groups, like the Women’s Media Center, that promote gender equality and strive to make the media industry a more inclusive place. The research that I have found for the literature review has proven to be more difficult than I thought it would I found myself searching for hours to find exactly what I needed. I have learned how to communicate and act professionally, when it comes to interviews and when addressing professionals.  I have also, learned that researching the academic level requires reliable academic sources and through this I now know how to use the UTEP library’s database. Overall, I have learned that creating a literature review requires a lot of time, research, and dedication in order to create the best possible paper.

2.     SO WHAT: What I have learned is important for this course, because it has taught me the fundamentals of creating a literature review through conducting research on various genres and has overall helped me improve my writing. As a future professional in the media industry, what I learned is important because it has shown me what I may have to face in the career path I have chosen, but that there are many women advocating for a change. Most importantly, I have learned that diversity is indeed a good thing.  Numbers for females in the media industry are low but they used to be even lower. As a future college grad and professional I have learned that is important to get an education and add on to my resume in order to be qualified for whatever job I choose to pursue so that way gender will not play a big role and so that I may contribute to the growing numbers of females in the media.

A. Method

It requires a clear and precise description of how an experiment was done, and the rationale for why specific experimental procedures were chosen.

   - Describe what was done to answer the research question.

   - Describe how it was done

   - Justify the experimental design

   - Explain how the results were analyzed

What to avoid

Materials and methods are not a set of instructions.

Omit all explanatory information and background - save it for the discussion.

Omit information that is irrelevant to a third party, such as what color ice bucket you used, or which individual logged in the data.

B. This information was gathered from:

      - Writing Research Papers.  http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/report/reportform.html 

     - How to write the methods section of a research paper.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15447808 

C. My classmates and I will meet these requirements by following these tips and using the book as a guideline. 

A. Interview Material 

1. Explain the clear purpose of your interview.

2. Introduce the subject of your interview in-text

3. Present the question you asked the interviewee when explaining her response

4. Use quotes, rather than paraphrasing, when citing specific information and facts 

5. Include an in-text citation in APA style each time you use information

6. Omit a reference to the interview in the bibliography of your paper.

An interview essay is designed to give the reader a general impression of the interview subject and to present his or her thoughts on a select group of topics.

B. This information was gathered from:

- How to Write an Interview Essay

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-an-Interview-Essay

- How to Write an Interview in APA Format

http://work.chron.com/write-interview-apa-format-6612.html

Here is the process for my interview request!

First off, the email :)

Then I downloaded the other two documents I needed, the interview release form and the interview confirmation. 

Here’s my drafted interview questions :)

Finally proof of interview material :)