Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Week 11

I have done a lot of research so far for my project. I learned from my research that feminists did a lot for women's equal rights. Fashion is one of the methods to express themselves. Feminists have been fighting for justice while some men also make efforts to feminist movements. In fashion area, there are many famous male designers. For instance, the inventor of pants for female was male. Male designers also promoted pants in female society. Fashion itself has a long history too. It dwells from one style to another. Fashion is not only clothing. It also includes hair, acessories and costometics. I want to show my audience images and illustrate them with my spoken words. I think that will be more impressive than written words because fashion is nothing without visual meterials. I'll organize my slideshow and put them into different categries. My spoken words will go with the images.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Week 10

My whole project is mainly about two aspects, feminism and fashion. In this case, my audience is those who are interested in either of the tow topics or both of them. My purpose of this project is letting my audience know that fashion is not just about appearence and clothes. Fashion is a way of expressing oneself. In my webtext, I connect feminism and fashion with my explaination of why fashion reflects feminism. In my podcast, I talked about men's attitudes towards feminism while in my slideshow, I will show my audience how fashion has changed. I divided my text and podcast into some main points and explained each point with examples. My project is well-suited to a web reader because it contains a lot of research. There are lots of links and pictures in the text to help the audience well understand my text. I also illustrate my content based on the web resources. So web-text is better than printed text.

I like my project because I think the topic is interesting and it is about different areas. I informed my audience a lot of useful history information. Besides, fashion industry has become more and more important in our modern life. It is necessary to know more about it. Also my project is about genders. This is still a popular topic all over the world.

I think I still need more research on my project in order to support my points. I will also re-organize my webtext so that it is easy for my readers to read. For my podcast, I also wish I could add more information about my main points because men's attitudes are indispensable as a part of feminist movement in the history and in the future. This topic still has a lot to said and I hope I can continue research it even after this semester.

In my topic, the fashion part would best be presented as images and spoken words of a slideshow. Fashion could not be shown without images. And since I will talk about the history, when the words go with images, it would be easier for audience to understand.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Week 9

The strategy of my script is to inform my audience men's responses to feminism and persuade them to get involved in feminist movements.

The first part of my script is the introduction, I explained what feminism was and what three kinds of men's responses to feminism. In the second part, I explained the three kinds of responses, positive, negative and laissez- faire. Then, I explained why men should get involved in feminism and how they can participate in feminist movements.

Basically, I used definitions and examples to support my idea and make my audience understand. I also found some resourses to support my idea as well.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Week 8

The differencs between spoken script and written essay is the tones and the languages.
When write an essay, the tone should be more formal and academic, because it will be printed out and read by others. Sometimes academic words need to be used so that the paper can look nicer and more convicible. For spoken script, the tone should be more oral. The language should be understandable by hearing it because the audience is random. they could be a native speaker or they can also be those who are not good at English.
The similarity is the tructure. no matter it is a spoken script or a written essay, they should both have thesis statements, body points and conclusions.

In my podcast, I will talk about men's attitudes towards feminism. my sourses list different attitudes provided by men. I will classify them into three main attitudes using paraphrasing, quoting and explaining. To get my audience engaged in my podcast, I will not only discribe my resources, but also mention what should women do and persuade men to get involved in feminist movements.