Advertising - Kristina Hanson

I saw a cute Huggies add in a magazine that is for Santa Diapers.  The diaper is red and has a Santa's belt with golden buckel printed on it.  I think it is effective because of the cute babies and the way they are dressed with diaper, shirt and Santa's hat.  They look really cute and I had to smile when I saw this ad.  It definitely uses humor. The box of diapers is red also.  I don't have a baby in a diaper anymore, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I would buy a box unless it is a lot more expensive than regular Huggies diapers.  I think the way this add is done, people will remember it when they see a red diaper box on a diaper shelf and are inclined to buy it.   

 

Earlier today I saw a commercial on TV from one of these title loan companies.  If you have a good title on your car, you can get money for Christmas presents.  A guy was dressed as an Elf.  This commercial just looked stupid to me.  I definitely wouldn't go out get a loan from them because of this commercial. On the other hand, the commercial being stupid might just stick in people's head and if they are needing to get money and drive buy one of these stores, they migh remember this stupid commercial and get the money from them. 

 

I haven't watched much TV in quite a while, as I just can't seem to find the time for it with school, work and family, and I don't remember any ads that I have watched before.

 

Kristina Hanson

Persuasive Essay Summary

My thesis is that the Hamilton Beach BrewStation Deluxe is the best coffee maker of the 4 models compared. One of the advantages is that you can choose between 4 different options (iced coffee, regular, flavor+ and 1-4 cups). It was rated excellent by Consumer Reports and got a rating of 90, which is the best of the 4 machines they had listed in this category. The price was also very competitive. The only reason for me to buy the more expensive machine Viante is the looks of it. It does have a more expensive look to it than the other coffee makers.
Kristina Hanson

Research, Research, Research

I did this one in the APA style, as you said we should do our paper in the style we use in our degree program. I'm in nursing and we use the APA style.

Kristina Hanson

References

Aliventi, P. (2011, September 03). Mr. coffee 12-cup no carafe coffeemaker-buy a hamilton brewstation instead. Retrieved from http://www.epinions.com/review/mr-coffee-bvmc-zh1b/content_562750656132

ConsumerReports. (2011). Coffee makers. Retrieved from http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/products/compare.htm

Hamilton Beach Summit. (2011). Coffee maker review. Retrieved from http://www.coffee-maker-review.net/hamilton-beach-48463-brewstation-summit-12cup-coffeemaker.html

Johnson, M. (2011). Coffee maker review. Retrieved from http://www.coffee-maker-review.net/hamilton-beach-brew-station-deluxe1.html

Viante. (2010). Cafe viante. Retrieved from http://www.vianteusa.com/cafe.html

Style

I never thought about rewording the sentence to make it more memorable.  It's amazing how different a sentence can sound when words are moved around.

Tip #1 "Place yourself in the background" makes sense to me and I have never really thought of it.  Instead of trying too hard to show your feelings in the writings and hurt your writing with it, just focus on writing good and your style will emerge at some point.

I like tip #2 a lot too, which is "write in a way that comes naturally".  I never thought about this before, but it does make lots of sense.  Some students in this class write so much better and use vocabulary that I never thought of using.  If I would use these words in writing it probably wouldn't sound right, unless I would use them when I speak also.  English is my second language, and even so I have been here for quite a while, there are still lots of words I have never heard before.  I should take the words I like in my verbal vocabulary first, and then they will come natural when I'm writing.

I like all of these really and they all make sense.  The only one really going against my intuition is tip #11, which is "do not explain too much".  I always thought it makes more sense to explain more about the mood of the person you are writing about.  So this one really goes against my intuition and is something I need to work on.
Kristina Hanson

Effective Argument

He is addressing his fellow clergymen. He is addressing racial segregation. He seems angry and concerned in the letter. I believe this letter is very effective. He was a very good speaker. I find the argument "Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds" logical.  We should be interested what happens all over the country,
 and not ignore it, just because it didn't happen in our area.  It can still happen there too.  I feel like he does a great job balancing logos, ethos and pathos. He mostly uses logos, but also ethos and pathos.  He uses name calling and hasty generalization. I feel like he should have left out the logical fallacies or word them different, but then it wouldn't have been as effective. I think reading this before my persuasive paper would have helped me a lot.  He wrote a very effective letter. 

Kristina Hanson

Logical Fallacies

Begging the Question: Male hamsters make better pets than female hamsters. I know this because my male hamster was nice and my female hamster bit me.

Polarization: All vegetarians love animals. (There might be another reason like not liking meat)

 Hasty Generalization: I have heard that all Germans like beer. Kristina is German so she must like beer.

Kristina Hanson

Topic

I chose coffee makers as a topic. I wasn't quite sure with some of the other topics I was thinking about if they were okay to use, so I figured this one was fine as there were several different options. We are wanting to buy a new coffee maker for Christmas, so I thought it would be fun to write about it and learn something about different types to buy one that really is what we need/want out of a coffee maker. I found this topic to be a little hard in regards to getting sources though. I argued about the different coffee makers, what options they have and which ones are recommended by Consumer Reports to prove my point why one of the models is the best one to buy. In the hindsight, this was not the best topic, and next time I will look more at research options before starting a paper.