Final PowerPoint Presentation

Speech Topic: 2012 London Olympics Logo Controversy

Purpose: To inform people how such an impact graphic design can be.

Introduction: Start with a quote from my favorite artist: "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." -Leonardo da Vinci

A. This logo is despised by everyone.
B. I will discuss the goal of this logo and the opposition it has met worldwide and why.

Body:
A. introduce logo and the goals being "dynamic, modern, inclusive"
Transition: unfortunately, only the board said this

B. opposition-looks like a swastika or Lisa Simpson
cost - $800,000!
Transition: national competition more appropriate

C. graphic design impact
online petition gained 28,000 in just 48 hours
Transition: "My children could do better..."

Conclusion: I discussed the goal of the 2012 London Games logo and it's weaknesses.

Unbiased Language

I can't really think of any situations when someone made an inappropriate remark on my gender. I remember instances really well where my intelligence and skills were questioned rather strongly. I wished the floor would swallow me up and I felt that awful sinking feeling in my gut. And I felt a huge rush of blood in my face and I knew that I was majorly blushing. But after wards I wished I had stood up for myself and told the person he had no right, etc... Oh well.

I just remembered an instance about age/physical stature. My friend and I were walking up to the Institute and I had been meaning to ask if she was really the age she had mentioned the other day. She was starting to breathe heavily (or at least barely noticeable) because of the incline and I stupidly chose this moment to ask her age. To my own embarrassment, she thought I was asking because of her breathing and she was probably feeling self-conscious about her age. She didn't seem to mind though and she just brushed it off and I followed her lead.

Real World Blunder

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/04/obama_mispronounces_corpsman_at_prayer_breakfast.html

I heard that President Obama mispronounced "Corpsman" and said it like, "Corpse man." I'm pretty sure the Navy doesn't work with corpses. And I'm pretty sure their respect for their president went down a bit. So this probably isn't an inappropriate comment, but come on, the President (the most powerful man on the planet) should know how to pronounce this even though he is kinda anti-military. (Case in point, President Bush always went out to the Middle East for Thanksgiving and whatnot, but President Obama just sent cards to random military people). So me and the rest of the military were kind of shaking our heads at this, but not ready to complain about it.

Good vs Bad Ads

The first one that shows a car and a plane, is a pretty good ad, because it keeps it simple and short. Not too much text and the text has a clear hierarchy. There are even "callouts" as in the little speaker boxes, to bring out that text. The ad itself has a clear hierarchy too because you're drawn to the picture and it intrigues you to start reading.



This one has parallelism when it says, "Freshly picked gum" instead of fruit. So immediately the audience knows that it is juicy and perhaps even natural flavor. I know I want to try some. The text is big and prominent and matches nicely with the picture. It also used complimentary colors that go really well together. It's not Christmas-y but with the darker shades, it comes across as fruity.



There is a double meaning that is pretty easy to catch. Public Education serves a bridge for a child's future. The text "public education" is clear and even looks like it is floating to help give the bridge effect. The picture itself is clear and striking. The text underneath the title is placed nicely and doesn't fight with any of the other elements.



First bad ad. "So that no one have to come here for food." One, it's disturbing. Two, typo. I think it would sound better if it said, "So that no one HAS to come here for food." The text also looks like it was plopped in there. But I do like the typeface. Would have been better to use a cardboard box with a pillow and blanket in it and a better slogan, with just "HELP" on it.



Now the second bad one. I don't know what a nerdy looking guy has to do with inspiration or visual studio. They could have an apple and hopefully people think of Newton and gravity and stuff.

Parallelism

The Real-Grammar examples... probably wrote them incorrectly because they didn't know any better and just wanted the information out there.

WANTED
Experienced Sales Reps
50% commission
~put the sales in reps (OK that is a really bad one)

Park N' Jet
Closest to the airport
Cheaper than the airport
~just can't park on a jet (hahahaha)

Possessives

homes' of my son's-in-law
rivers of Arkansas
house of Jim and Joan's
research of the Ph.D.'s
advertising of McGraw-Hill, Inc.
estimates of Fred the electrician
idea of anyone else's
deposition of the witnesses
the upper levels of the airport

The tree surgeon could not save the white spruce's limb
The user's manual for the new software package was so confusing that most consumers returned it to the company
Window's intuitive commands make it easy for users to move from one application to another
I will be in Hawaii on Mother's Day and in New Mexico on April Fool's Day and in California on Veterans Day
Grover Cleveland was the people's choice
Each participant filed out the Reader's Comment Form
Now that he has his Bachelor's Degree, he plans to his his Master's, and possibly his Doctorate
The National Secretaries Conference will be held in Houston this year
For appearance sake, the feuding vice presidents' kept their differences to themselves during the monthly staff meeting
My brother's-in-law idea was to have the family reunion at a spa
We have been invited to a holiday art at the Roth's
The telephone company's president's idea was to offer discount rates to seniors

The Craft of Research

Chapter 1
So the very beginning of the first chapter really caught my attention. The last half was stuff I already knew from experience like the writing to remember and writing to know. A small example of that is my To Do List. When I write the stuff I need to do, I remember to do it. And I remember remembering to do it. But anyway, the beginning of the chapter... so when they say that Williams has been to Australia, but the other authors haven't, but they know it exists because they've read about and seen maps of it. It just never occurred to me to think of research like that. Now I feel like we've earned the Internet and I'm glad it's here because we've been researching since the beginning and just glad that we can put it all in one place.
Chapter 2
Basically put yourself in the position as your reader. Such as how do they know already? Do I entertain them with a simple discussion and answer their questions? Or do I provide them with knew information and new outlook? Do they want a particular problem or question answered? So many questions so little time.
Chapter 3
In short, this chapter is about where to find inspiration on a topic. All of them sounded like fun. When I hear about something about animals I immediately go on YouTube to watch that animal or Google the animal to learn all I can. And like today, I wanted to be sure that World War I was started by the assassination of the Austrian minister or whatever. I was totally right. Then that ended up in me reading the rest of the Wikipedia page and then lead me to the World War II page and then to the United States of America page. I am way off topic now, but that's OK I think I'm done.

Integrating Sources

Section 1 Summary:
You are the source of your particular argument. There's a primary and secondary source: primary source functions as uninterpreted data and you interpret significance. Secondary source does discuss your subject and you decide to accept or challenge it. Documenting sources makes your argument stronger and is an obligation. If you don't document sources, it's dishonest.

Section 2 Summary:
First Principle
Use sources as compressed and simple as possible so your voice/ideas are separated from the author's ideas. When summarizing, use your own words with occasional quoted words or phrases from the source. Be clear what you are summarizing. Put as much as you can in your words. Be careful when paraphrasing as well to clarify statements.
Second Principle
Be clear when you are speaking and when you are using your source.
Third Principle
Be clear how your paper related to your argument.
Rules for Quoting:
Use really inspiring quotes that flow smoothly from your own sentence. Make it easy for the reader to who is speaking.
Technical Rules
/ indicates line-break in a quote
Be careful where you put commas, colons, and semicolons in quotation marks
Always quote verbatim

Section 3 Summary:
When to Cite
You make a citation in your paper that tells the reader where to find that source and such. You use a citation when you use info or data you found for quotes, summarizing or paraphrasing info, or when you use a source's method and whatnot.
When Not to Cite
Common knowledge
Everyday speech or phrases
Conversation between friends
Methods of Citing: Sequential Notes
Footnote and endnote refers to the source and page. Footnote is at the beginning and endnote is at the end.
author, book title, publication, and year
In-text citing at the end of the sentence has the author and year in parenthesis. An in-text citing at the beginning has the author's last name starting the sentence and then year and page number in parenthesis and the sentence continues on.

Section 4 Summary:
Plagiarism is passing off a source's information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to acknowledge that source-an act of lying, cheating, and stealing. Plagiarism is accomplished by uncited information and ideas, a verbatim phrase that isn't quoted and cited, and an uncited structure that the original author used. Other forms include: misrepresenting evidence which means skewing evidence to make it true; improper collaboration where two or more students turn in more or less the same work; dual or overlapping submission where someone submits work from one class to another; and abetting plagiarism where a student helps another student. In short, don't plagiarize or the university will kick you out and you end up a homeless person.

Section 5 Summary:
Styles of documentation is what you write to cite a source all from what to do if there's more than one volume and authors to an online article with two authors. It has the author, book title, publishing info, city, year, and page numbers.

Annie Dillard Discussion Questions

1. If I saw anyone drink that much coffee (it must be a lot) I would be ready with a syringe of insulin or something. Anyway, the most physical ritual I do, which is rare, is pushups. Very stimulating. But usually, I just stare at the blank Word document, think of what I want to say, and edit it as I actually type. I type as much as I can before I take a small break to think more. To help with this, I go back and edit what I just wrote. Sometimes I listen to music or watch a music video or one of my favorite TV shows if I’m really stuck. I guess that’s kind of like procrastinating. Well, as I watch TV, I try to find little inspirations like how the camera moves or how they introduce a new scene. If I get bored with this technique, that’s where the pushups come in. With my body full of adrenaline, I stare at the screen, think of what I want to say, and type it.

2. I knock down walls all the time, in the sense I go back to edit all the time. The main idea is usually good enough, but the times it’s not, I will knock down the main wall and start over, which is frustrating. Thankfully that hasn’t happened in a while.
So does Dillard refer to these walls or foundations/limitations created by the writer, or by social constructions? I’m leaning toward social constructions because

3. Her metaphors make her book all the more interesting. I’ve never had an interest in writing like that because I would butcher it. I can sure try though.
The New Year begins with winter: Cold, stark, dry, and quiet. Trees are bare and menacing looking and the animals are silent, trying to keep warm. Then the Earth comes alive. Grass is green again. Trees and flowers are in full bloom. Birds sing. The entire Salt Lake Valley is washed with color. Summer arrives and the colors fade a little, but are still alive and thriving. Fall comes and with that, leaves fall, flowers die, silence reigns. The world seems to dull and fall asleep. The first major snowfall arrives and winter has begun. Even though winter is cold and stark, that first snowstorm blankets the valley in hues of blue. Sunsets cast light across the snow into oranges, violets, reds, and yellows. When people see this, they think winter is worth it.
So with that in mind (not sure if it’s a full blown metaphor) my process starts out well enough and then I get comfortable with my idea, i.e. spring. I slow down a bit and edit what I have written so far, which is summer. When I get stuck I try I listen to music or something (autumn). Then I might do pushups or listening to music helps and I begin writing again. I consider metaphors useful when they’re used correctly and easy enough to understand or really gets you thinking.

4. Yes, I do share her mysticism (as long she does it) because like I said above, it makes her writing all the more interesting. She explains it in vivid detail like you were watching the inchworm freak out. She doesn’t just tell it, she shows it. Reading her book will definitely help me develop a similar approach.

5. Yes she aims to entertain and intrigue us. When it comes to purposely being vague, maybe she hopes for us to fill in the holes ourselves, to discover our own way of writing too perhaps.

Grammar Practice Problems

1. The flooding was worst at the point where New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania meet.

2. Because he loved to read, to write, and to edit; Mr. Diamond was considering a career in library work, marketing, or publishing.

3. Salinger's first novel, The Catcher in the Rye, captures the language and thoughts of teenagers.

4. He has only one ambition: to produce a Broadway musical.

5. If you blow out all your candles, your wish will come true.

6. The district managers represents four regions; Terry Smith, Rochester, NY; Chris Adler, Superior, WI; Kim Young, Chimayo, NM; and Pat Golden, Tallahassee, FL.

7. The weather report predicted high winds, freezing rain, and snow; he highway patrol advised caution when driving, yet the storm blew out to sea.

8. My boss, who wears bright colors, is a cheerful person.

9. He hires people who are energetic, efficient, and polite.

10. When asked what she wanted to be later in life, she replied, "An Olympic swimmer."

11. The governor issued this statement, "I have done nothing wrong; the IRS will find that my tax returns are all in order."

12. Scientists spotted large numbers of dolphins, nurse and great white sharks, and blue, gray, and humpback whales near the offshore station.

13. She loves her car: a red Toyota.

14. If you drop by the doctor's office without an appointment, you can be sure of one thing: an icy reception.

15. His dog, a big Labrador retriever, is afraid of mice.

16. His recent painting, which is hanging in our local restaurant, shows dogs in various disguises.

17. His recent painting that is hanging in our local restaurant, shows dogs in various disguises.

Real World Grammar

The ad that uses the semicolon I imagine thought that "Trading Foreign Currencies" was the same as "Make money from home" when it's really not. It would have looked better if it was on another line... in the same font... but that's just my graphic design side speaking.

The commas 1 file shouldn't have had a comma after "Whiskey." Perhaps this mistake was made because they were describing the place it was made, therefore, a different topic.

The commas 2 file I didn't find anything wrong.

The commas 3 file should have read, "Dell-sliced Turkey Breast with lettuce and tomatoes..." Apparently they got caught up in listing the ingredients. Lettuce and tomatoes go together.

The colon file I didn't find anything wrong again.

Inventing the University

I never thought of writing as a writer-based and reader-based prose. Obviously our languages change when we talk to a friend compared to a physics professor and even your parents.

My major is graphic design and this community differs enormously from other majors because it is purely subjective. Chemistry, physics, biology, calculus, all have one right answer for a problem. Graphic design can have multiple solutions to a design problem and that is where it can become frustrating. You may think your design is perfect and feel like it's the best one in the class... until the teacher says otherwise. The teacher validates your design with good reasons to help improve it, which you agree with grudgingly, but that's how you learn most effectively.