Podcast Interview

http://student.calumet.purdue.edu/~russok1/multimodal_essay/Podcast_Interview.mp3

Research

To be honest, I have so many experiences involving research, I don’t even know where to begin. My first approach to researching information is that I enjoy choosing a topic which I can be comfortable writing about. Then my next step is gathering all of the information on my topic of choice, then I am able to determine which source is reliable information to use for my paper. After this I am able to begin the writing process and as I write I can cite my paper according to the sources I used to prove authority behind my references. I have to say I invest a lot of time into researching before writing any paper. MLA and APA are specific writing styles that every writer uses when he/she are creating papers. MLA is the more common of the two when writing papers and citing sources involving liberal arts and humanities. APA is also well known when writing papers involving social sciences. We give attribution to the original authors in our texts because by taking their written words we create plagiarism since we are stealing other others information. By creating reference pages and works cited pages, this allows us to use the author’s information in our own papers. No harm is done as long as you as a writer prove where your source of information originally came from.

Reflection Blog

Business oriented parents are who I think will be the most interested in my essay. I would even think specific age groups from 25-50 years old male and female. This group has the most to benefit from the internet because more parents are becoming computer oriented, with the help of better software applications and the World Wide Web. My topic is extremely compatible with many Web readers because everywhere you look today, teenagers are always using the internet for school, chat rooms, instant messaging, and much more. The parents have now developed a passion for monitoring their children’s activities on the computer. I am proud of my explanations and details between parents and teens internet usage. I tried to explain my reactions to the article to the best of my ability and also gave credit to the respected authors of my outside sources. I definitely would tweak my project by incorporating more details in each response to show how affective this article could really be. I should have talked about the future of parents and teens internet usage in my conclusion to interest the reader even further after they are done reading the essay. I would improve my sentences by proofreading each one to ensure that every sentence is well thought and presented accordingly. I really appreciate how my instructor comments on every single aspect of my project because her ideas helped to explain my thesis much better. Without her advice and very detailed comments, I don’t think my hypertext essay would not have turned out as good as I thought it was going to be. This topic works great because my determination to become a successful business-oriented parent, and hopefully one day my teenagers will show me a thing or two new about the internet. I feel that this article worked well with my topic of the internet and businesses for all of these reasons.

Life Magazine

In this picture, http://www.bob2000.com/lifesep71cov.jpg, my first reaction is that this group of young adults are having a wonderful time floating downstream on a inner tube. It reminds me of my vacations spent in the wildnerness, camping with friends and even floating in inner tubes downstream. The thing that caught my eye is the that these people are having a great time, their laughing and splashing water on each other, taking it easy. One of the rhetorical devices are present in this photo such as; smiles on their faces can relate to pathos because their emotions show they are having a good time. This photo was picked because it presents an image of relaxation and simply having fun with friends while floating downstream. This image portrays to me that no matter what time of year it is, go take a vacation and relax with friends and family.

Multimodal Proposal

My topic is “The Internet: The good, the bad, and the ugly”, and how modern day businesses are influenced by the internet. All businesses, big or small, are operating through the uses of the internet whether it pertains to ordering products online or advertising their products throughout the internet. I am highly interested in this topic because my major is business management and if I want to become successful in my career, then I should achieve a better understanding of businesses using the internet to create a booming business. I strongly believe that others will be attracted to understand that a successful business will use every available source to progress their business, and why internet is the first step in the right direction. Well by the end of this project, I hope to show that businesses use the internet to promote their products worldwide and communicate with customers whenever needed. As well as using the internet to see how the competition is improving and searching the web for useful ideas to better enhance the companies self-image of their establishment. These are some influences by using the internet in the modern day business world.