WEEK 3

This week we have been discussing our "Major Inquiry Assignment". I have chosen the topic of children with alcoholic/abusive parents. This topic is very close to home with me because I am a child of an alcoholic and abusive parent. My father suffers from alcoholism, so I know exactly what its like to experience that first hand. It can have serious effects on a child and mold them into something more negative, or it can fuel a child into becoming something and someone better than what people expected them to become. This week we also discussed how to prepare for this project and began brainstorming NPO's for our topics.

WEEK 2

During our first week of class, we discussed what makes good rhetoric and how to properly compose a thesis statement. We also discussed how good rhetoric persuades your audience and how everything has to be placed properly in order to affect ones target reader. For example, in advertisements and commercials they use many different tactics in order to get a message across to their viewers and readers. Visuals are one great way to get a message across as well as bold messages and a dramatic theme. All of these elements create a persuasive message such as the ones we viewed in the Dove and Green Peace Ad.