Reflective Post.

This class taught me how to better analyze and artifact and bring out many different themes and ideas that i may have not previously noticed. I understood the ideological method the most. Now when i watch movies, read magazines, or surf the Internet, i feel i can have a better appreciation and understanding about the artifact. I will also become a better critique when it comes to dealing with my own writings and presentations.

My favorite thing in the class was dealing with the first essay and presentation. The class discussion of our first essay helped me get a better feel for how i wanted to analyze my essay. It was fun discussing popular movies, TV shows, and other artifacts with other class mates. Its always good to hear other peoples opinions and perspectives.

The most challenging part of the class was putting together my final essay. The first essay served as a guideline to what corrections I needed to be make for the second essay. I used the same method because i felt most comfortable with the ideological method. I now had to determine how to better structure my paper. I had to learn the importance of paragraph structure and having a topic sentence which the whole paragraph is based off of.

A recent popular issue in society is athletes and their personal lives and moral failures. Recently Tiger Woods was scrutinized by the media for his adultery. He finally had interview where he sat down and addressed the media. Now that i have a better knowledge of how to analyze an artifact such as n interview i was able to notice key themes and ideas that may have been hidden to other people. Once thing that i began to analyze was his facial expressions. I person can tell a lot about how they feel or what they believe by their non-verbal forms of communication. His speech was also a key thing to analyze. Every specific sentence seemed to have an underlying meaning. His beliefs and moral standards now were contrasted with other dominant ideologies in society. I gained a deeper perspective on this interview by noticing things i wouldn't have before i took Rhetorical criticism.