Thursday, September 16, 2010

In Class blog: Peer Observations

After reading over the comments my peers made, there are a lot of new ideas I have gotten. I think I had been trying to be so objective that I neglected to include more of a personal view on what I was obersving. I think adding this will help me discover more clearly the appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos that my space is making.
Additionally, the peer reviews have helped me to see that I need to incorporate the visual aspects I have found in my space and connect them to various appeals they could be making. I need to look at why things are the way they are in this certain setting and what effect it has on the people in the setting. Also their comments put some ideas in my head that I had never thought about like how the staff responses might make an appeal to either logos or pathos.
Their reviews kind of helped me tie together the loose ends of certain observations that I wasn't sure fit with my public space. Now I see that they might not necessarily fit with the typical description of a hospital but that they are there and have some connection to the larger cultural framework that inhabits the hospital, not only in the lobby of hospitals but also in the patient rooms. I need to work on finding out how the rhetorical appeals of the hospital make sense in context with this paper and in regards to the people in the hospitals.

1 comment:

  1. It seems like the ideas you have gathered from your peers have been very helpful. Adding a personal flare to your writing it important and will give your essay character and make it more appealing to pathos.

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