1. How did you go about analyzing the text? What methods did you use—and which ones were most helpful? I broke down each ad individually, then used a basic compare and contrast style to split my thoughts into paragraphs. One of the easiest ways to break down the ads was the 7 questions you gave us to analyze the first ads, but another good way is to ask yourself "Who" "What" "Where" "When" "Why" and "How."
2. How did you go about drafting your essay? My first draft was honestly mostly a brainstorm of ideas I wanted to put in my paper, then structured so it was a bit easier to follow. For my final draft, I will write my conclusion first and my introduction last so I better know how to explain why someone should read my paper after I've written it.
3. How well did you organize your written analysis? What, if anything, could you do to make it easier to read? I started with an example of how I analyzed part of an ad, then examined the physical aspects of each ad, followed by the overall message of both ads.
4. Did you provide sufficient evidence to support your analysis? The two people who edited my paper seemed to agree with me I did.
5. What did you do especially well? I organized it in an easy way and wrote my sentences individually so each was easy to understand.
6. What could still be improved? My editors really wanted more on blood donation itself that backed my analysis, not just information on the ads. They wanted context to work from, since not much is known by the general public about it.
7. Did you use any visuals, and if so, what did they add? Could you have shown the same thing with words? I forgot to put the pictures into my analysis, but when my editors and I both compared the pictures to my descriptions, they said both ads were described well.
8. How did other readers' responses influence your writing? I think I've been writing the answer to that this whole time. My opinion is valid, but I also have a harder time understanding how my audience thinks than someone who is actually in my audience, so it has influenced my writing a lot.
9. What would you do differently next time? I would pick a less "boring" topic, even if it was interesting to me. More fun facts about the topic will help in my final draft to keep my audience engaged.
10. Are you pleased with your analysis? What did it teach you about the text you analyzed? Did it make you want to study more works by the same writer or artist? I am pleased with this analysis even though analyzing print ads is not my cup of tea. While it didn't make me want to analyze more ads, it did make me want to do more research on blood/organ donation.
11. What are the transferrable skills you can take from this into other writing situations? One of the best skills I gleaned from this is the way you can interpret something in many different ways, which will help me write characters better as I continue to write fiction. Another skill I learned is how easy it is to go a bit overboard on the analysis and dissect it too much until your claim doesn't match the topic. While this makes people want to avoid many poorly written analysis papers, this would make for an interesting way to brainstorm multiple plot lines for a story that all intertwine together.
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