Part 1:

Being able to summarize large bodies of text might possibly be one of the greatest skills a college student can have. This is a great skill to have for many reasons, one being able to take efficient notes and fully have understanding of the text then turn those notes into a well developed summary. Being able to think critically as a writer will help substantially. Being able to think critically and put that into text will make it easier for you as a writer, and also make your paper that much better. Along with being a critical thinker as a writer will help you as an individual in society due to the fact there is not a single day of our lives we don't read and analyze text of some sort. With the world constantly changing and technology advancing so rapidly, there is wider variety of places for text to be. The internet is one of the biggest sources for information in todays world with Twitter, Facebook, and all of the different social media, it is crucial to be able to analyze and interpret text no matter what format the text is in. Learning to read texts of all different types has really made my understanding for writing and authorship much greater. Reading our classmates Tweets has actually been very useful, and allows us to come connected and see what others views may be on a given reading. This has helped me understand authorship, because we all are reading the same texts, but everyone always has something different to say, and this helps you as a writer see how many different ways a text can be interpreted. This is also very challenging because as a writer you can only use 140 characters per tweet, so this makes you get straight to your point and summarize in a whole different way. Being able to analyze text as an advertisement makes me as a reader step back and look at all of the ways the author might be trying to come across to all the different people who might read that sign or whatever the text might be displayed on. The one thing that is common in most advertisement texts is that they all are promoting either Pathos, Logos or Ethos.














This advertisement above is an example of Pathos which is the emotional appeal to the reader. This is a anti-meth advertisement, and it is intended to really make a point and scare the reader. When thinking of an advertisement that really stands out this is the first one to come to mind. The graphic picture alone makes you cringe, then you read the words and it makes you wonder what would posses a person to even try meth, because honestly that is a very scary advertisement. The point is to grab the readers attention and make the image stick in their head.

Part 2:

In Seth Davis's article "Should College Athletes be Paid, Why, They Already Are",  Davis is arguing the huge dispute on whether or not college athletes should be paid or not. In the beginning of his article, Davis disagrees with the writing done by Taylor Branch, and quotes a texts that is informing the reader about how bad the corruption is in college sports but does not give the authors name or when the texted he quoted was written. Later Davis reveals that this quote was taken from a text that was published over a century ago. Davis does this to prove a point that Branch's article is nothing new and this stuff has been happening for a long time. Davis has the opinion that college athletes are "paid" in so many ways and thinks the tuition, housing, food, ect. is plenty of pay alone. This article is very emotional driven and Davis really sells his opinion through his emotions, the bulk of his article is him proving points that go against Branch's article and sells his point very well. To finish his article, Davis makes some sarcastic comments leading back to Branch and disses on him a final time to end his article.