Argument Reflection Blog

In this argument, my audience is absolutely everybody. My purpose was to try and deal with the issues from all parties in the attempt of trying to making some kind of a solution to both side’s problems. My overall design was to try and try to make all of the information available in a somewhat organized fashion. I then introduced my perspective and conclusion in an attempt to get those to believe my stance based on the facts presented in the previous pages. I believe my presentation is suitable for the web reader. It gives a variety of facts and what I believe to be a strong argument.
I am most proud that I was able to finish it. If I had more time I think I might be able to improve the structure of the pages and maybe insert a few more pictures. I don’t think lacking any technical knowledge affected my project in any way.
For the most part I selected general knowledge of the topic and the various events that were happening in accordance to my subject. However, several of these sources were used to either give a bad image to the record labels or help my argument in that a solution needs to be made and that the tactics being used are not effective. I think my decisions to give subtle biases in my body pages full of facts can influence the audience with my argument. At times I tried to make either the record labels or artist seem unfair with their possible greed.
In general I think I did a decent job at presenting my point. My original goal was to make the audience think that downloading should be legalized because it simply can’t be stopped. The project was difficult because I pretty much ran out of time, but that also can be due to some procrastination.

Proposal Blog

The topic and conflict of downloading music has been an ongoing struggle. It seems that no consensus will ever be made. Some think that no solution will ever come of this. Record sales are down 20% since 2000 and it has been blamed on downloading. I propose that music downloading should be free, but that there must be some conditions. For instance, I think it should be legal to post and download music, but this must be done on authorized sites that sell advertising space. Similar things have been attempted before, but the record labels complained that they were not getting their cut. However, the record companies and artists can collect the commission they would have normally lost to music piracy. Also, those who care about getting the music out there can also have that opportunity without having to get signed by a record label.

Multimodal Reflection Blog

The multimodal project was more involved than the hypertext essay since it was a hypertext essay with an included power point and podcast. My target audience for this project was everybody. This is because this was a presentation of nonbiased material. I tried to cover all sides equally since this is a somewhat controversial issue. My purpose for covering this topic in the project was to give a good background on downloading music and what is all involved. My overall design was not the flashiest, but I think with the few pictures I used it gave it some visual appeal. Some of my pages did not contain pictures which may take away from the project though. I placed the power point and podcast on the first page because that was the home page and I thought that would help to create a good introduction page since the power point was also a summary of the various views. I think these elements gave a decent presentation of the material in various aspects.
I am most proud that I was able to finish the project, but if I had to pick something else it would be that I was able to provide all of the viewpoints in a way that did not make me seem biased. If I had more time I do not think I would change really anything, maybe I would do something to the conclusion page to either lengthen it or just make it more visually appealing. If I had a greater knowledge of technology I would have the text word wrap around the text instead of just making a table. The table helps make it more visually appealing, but it would look nicer. I chose the research that I did because it provided the viewpoints of everybody. This includes all parties and the situations that this topic involves in other countries besides the United States.