The final edition of our poster in my opinion was good, but the class didn’t chose it as one of the final ones for the essay contest.  Honestly, I think there were some things to improve on.  It seems that we could have more of a poster appeal to it.  We had a hard time with the design to be honest.  We tried adding a border and other pictures, but we thought that it made it look weird and kind of threw it off.  The background was something we liked and wanted to keep, so we did what we thought made it look the best.  I think the background was different and gave it a futuristic, time travel look.  Which that is what we wanted.  Our purpose on the background was to also try and get people’s attention.  Some people liked it and some didn’t.  The picture we put in our poster gave a contrast to the background. I liked the different color and the contrast, but there were mixed reviews from our peers.  Our fonts were picked to make it an easier read with the background.  On the board it appeared hard to read, but once printed out, it was fine.  We made each section a different font to show that they were different topics.  Made the title an unusual font to try and catch people’s attention.  We made the money larger to try and get people to focus on that also to make them want to read more.  I think that we could have put less words on the poster so people would be more likely to read it.

9/18 HW

1. A good way to market the writing competition would be to put the poster on the computer screen savers around campus.
2. It could be put on the main McKendree website somewhere. https://www.mckendree.edu/
3. The McKendree twitter and facebook accounts could also send a post out about this.
4. Another way to get the competition out there is to print them out and hang them in places. Good places would be where a lot of people pass by like: Ames, 1828, library, lair, PAC, VOS, and the dorms.  I think places to hang them would be on doors of the main entrance, bathrooms, or bulletin boards.
5. I personally think that email would be a good source to use. It isn’t allowed anymore to send out campus wide emails but I still think this is a good idea.

This is an example of a hasty generalization fallacy.  In this meme the person reaches a conclusion before considering all evidence, therefore it is a hasty generalization fallacy.

This is an example of an ad hominem fallacy.  In this meme Robin is attacking batman as a person rather than his argument which makes it an ad hominem meme.

This is an example of a red herring fallacy.  The duck on one leg is arguing that a spaghetti monster does exist but he has no reasoning for it, so he brings up another topic that is off subject to draw attention from his argument. That is why it is a red herring fallacy.

1. New media writing is both digital and non-digital. New media writing is considered material. People do not normally think of it as a material because you can not touch the internet, but the internet has a lot of materials involved to make it. Also, a document on a device can be printed out as a paper making it materialistic. New media writers should consider medium, design, and genre.  They are more important than in traditional writing. In new media pictures and videos are effective. New media should involve some type of rhetorical writing. You should also consider the audience. With technology and new media, your audience could be anyone around the world.

2. I do not quite understand the rhetoric section of the first chapter.

3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sug7L4x5N1E