Ethos, Pathos, Logos FTW!
As i start this weeks tumblr post i cant help but feel anxious about making my own website especially after completing the huge short film project on Monday. But since the semester is almost done, i figured here goes nothing!
Section A: As a writer! I will attempt to integrate the ethos, pathos, and logos in order to make my website stunning and draws the audience to focus more on my thesis provided throughout my website. I will attempt to add credibility to most of my material that is discussed on my website so that I form a sense of ethos to keep the audience interested in reading my website. By adding ethos to my paper I not only provide credibility but everything that I state is not a mere rumor or an educational guess, rather all my information displayed is academic, organized, and completely reliable. By adding pathos, the information displayed can help to persuade the audience to feel a certain kind of emotion based on what I am trying to convince the audience about. For example in my literature review I discussed how the lack of diversity in the quality of care for most veterans that attend the VA, and I approach this topic by persuading the audience to sympathizes with our US veterans and to get them involved with advocating a solution to this problem. As for logos, I intend in making sure that my papers and paragraphs displayed on my website will be comprehensive and simple to understand, I am not saying that my audience will not be able to comprehend my thesis for each paper but by sticking to simple English diction I can assure that my audience will not have any misconceptions regarding my topics.
Section B: As a designer! Key elements such as contrast, consistency, balance, grouping, and alignment are very important to ensure that audience’s attention has been captured. To avoid losing my audience I will do my best to adjust the aspects of my website to fit the 5 principles of web design. I will keep my text font and size consistent except for major key points to give compliments to the sections of the webpage according to vital information and other sub-categories. I will also use the same style for each heading throughout the website to ensure consistency and to keep the audience’s attention. Any images or multimedia used on my website will be aligned evenly so that my images are reasonably recognizable among each image, but all my images will follow one main theme so that my audience can see how the images all tie into my papers thesis. I will group my content according to the rubric provided on BB which will have my Homepage, introduction about me; my Assignment Reflections; my Reading Reflections, as well as the Extra credit opportunities which is the Course Reflection: What, So What, Now What.
Now that my post is complete and i have a simple rubric to use in order to help me assemble my website, i feel confident about putting the whole web page together. This almost feels as good as finishing a race in 1st place.
Your post is organized and easy to read. It is clear and explains what you are planning to do. You explain each appeal great and is very easy to understand. Nice job!
