Entry 10: Bless, Address, or Press: Taylor W.

 

Bless, Address, or Press: Taylor W.

This week I am taking the time to speak about Taylor's ability to bring together Tompkins (2012) and the research she completed for her Genre Presentation. I was in awe of the way Taylor organized all that she learned about the persuasive genre and how she included new strategies in her post that added to my knowledge of the persuasive genre. I am always searching for new ways to teach and foster the topic that I am introducing students to, especially through technology. Taylor wonderfully laid out options to incorporate technology into the persuasive genre and your classroom. Taylor wrote about how her article she read for her genre presentation included strategies for persuasive writing like creating websites, blogs, or writing persuasive scripts for podcasts (Taylor W. Blog 9). These are all great tools to foster the importance of persuasive writing and reading while also highlighting how the persuasive genre is all around us. The image below really encompasses how I think about persuasion being all around us, especially in our technology heavy time. 

My favorite part of Taylor's blog was the incorporation of the part about using online advertisements as a strategy to teach about persuasive writing and reading. I personally loved the activity that the group who presented on the persuasive genre (Taylor was one of them) included in their presentation. Therefore, Taylor's incorporation of this in her blog gained my attention and after reading it, I feel that this is a strategy that I hope to use in my classroom. I liked how Taylor included all of the 3 types of persuasion, audience, purpose, and websites to create the advertisements that students make. This lesson that Taylor outlined in her blog makes me envision myself completing something similar. One thing that I would consider doing a little bit differently, is talking about propaganda and its affect on c consumers. I would also consider starting this exploration of advertisements with printed ones first and then work up to online advertisements. I would also personally give my students the choice of making their own advertisement on a website like google slides, Canva or Jamboard and also giving them the choice to make it on construction paper. Lastly, I liked how the students in her activity would look at googles terms and conditions of advertising and talk about persuading through this. I would also have printed advertisements and we would watch commercials and through all three sources, we would create a list of the items that make good advertisements because of the 3 types of persuasion. Overall, Taylor did a fantastic job with not just this post, but all of her posts. I really liked how I could read her posts and then think about how I might use elements of what she talked about in my own classroom. Thank you Taylor!