Your implication (consequences) paragraphs and the conclusion are due to the Peer Review Discussion Board on Monday. The implications (consequences) paragraphs are where you will use your sources and the quotes you chose in your assignment from yesterday. You will use the quote to prove your claims about the real life consequences of commercials reinforcing the values or beliefs that you discovered when you analyzed the ad. These are the paragraphs where you get to discuss how these commercials affect real life people in real (mostly harmful) ways.
Here is the outline for these final three paragraphs. After you write these, we will be finished with this unit. All you will have left is to revise them based on my feedback (combine all the sections into one document if you haven’t already) and then submit the final draft. Don’t forget that the final is worth 25% of your total grade in this class, so be sure you revise, revise, revise!
- Discuss the implications of your findings, i.e. the consequences (you need two paragraphs, one for each source):
- Start with a claim about how your myth or value affects society, i.e. When women are told they must be thin to be acceptable, it can cause eating disorders. OR When men are taught that lying in a relationship is acceptable, it can ultimately cause the marriage to fail and end in divorce.
- Prove it with evidence from one of your sources (a quote) and relate it to the commercial. Introduce the authors with their credibility and then quote their research/study/claim.
- Explain and analyze: So what? Who cares? Why does it matter? What does it mean? How does this affect real people? Again, connect your discussion back to the commercial before you end every paragraph. Where do you see this in the ad? How does the ad affect (or hurt) people?
- Refer back to thesis
- Conclusion (choose one):
- Explain the significance of the problem
- OR make a call to action
- OR offer a solution
- Be sure you refer to the commercial before you end your paper. You are writing a media analysis of a commercial. You have to connect it all together!
Be sure you write TWO paragraphs of consequence and a conclusion. You can use I statements in the conclusion. You might explain if you have seen these values or consequences in your life or the lives of others you know. Maybe you have seen this issue in social media or in your own relationships. The conclusion is a chance for you to relate to the paper and share you own thoughts, experiences, or ideas about how to fix the issue or how it has affect you or people you know. Make the conclusion feel real! The point of this paper is to express how media has an affect on real people and how we can recognize it in order to not be affected in a negative way by it.
Remember!! There is an example media essay in the folder at the top of Unit Two with the instructions and learning materials if you want to see a real example of this paragraph.