In the NPR story, “A
Tale Of Fate: From Astrology To Astronomy” from All Things Considered, it is easy to see that this is no normal
news clip or report but instead more of an overall interview with just one important
person and only focusing on one subject matter. Thus, this audio essay was
basically an informative interview that focused on Katherine Marsh’s new novel,
Jepp Who Defied the Stars. Aside
from the audio portion of the story there is also informational text that goes
along with the story as well as a picture of the book and highlights from or
summery of the audio portion. Thus, from just listening and viewing this story
form NPR it is revealed that an audio essay definitely has many differences and
only some similarities to academic essay or annotated maps.
One of the biggest
parts of an audio essay that is vastly different from the academic essay or
annotated map is the audio part of it. Besides the audio essay neither of the
other two other projects have any audio to it what so ever. Furthermore, the
audio essay itself, involves having a script with many questions. There is also
not really seems to be an argument that is trying to made in this audio essay.
Its goal seems to be purely informative, ultimately revealing information on
the storyline to this new novel and what inspired the author to write about it.
Whereas, both the annotated map and academic essay are much more argumentative
than informative than this NPR story. Ultimately, not all audio essays are
probably informative essays there are ones that have to do with arguments thus
making some cases of audio essays similar to that of the other two projects.
Additionally, just like the other projects the audio essay requires evidence
which is ultimately the interviews or other sounds that are used with the audio
segments. Furthermore, the audio essay does not just start right into the
interview, it starts with an intro, “when Katherine Marsh was a young girl, she
was absolutely mesmerized by the dwarfs in the paintings by Diego Velazquez. Years
later, that obsession became the inspiration for her latest young adult novel”
(Raz). This sets up the story and then goes into the interview and finally
comes to a conclusion by the end of it. There is also a script that goes along
with the audio as well as a summarized area with text. In addition, it can be
seen that the annotated map is similar to the audio essay because it also has
its own annotated area and text.
Conclusively, I might want to focus
on or discuss maybe sport events that are held on the ASU campus such as
basketball or football games.
Football and basketball games is a really fun idea to do this project on and I look forward to seeing you pursue this. I would suggest attending one or the other, and maybe just talking to people around you about the game, I find people to be a great reliable source. Also when they are in the moment of the actual game, you can get a real sense of their emotion or passion which can help emphasize an argument in your audio essay. Another way of getting some quality sources or information is from the athletes themselves, they can tell you what goes through their minds on game days or how passionate they are for their sport. Overall, great analysis! Good Job!
ReplyDeleteJett, I think doing your audio essay on an ASU sporting event is a great idea! So many people get involved and go to games; I think it would end up being a great project. I think football would be good because it is the most popular and attended sport at ASU. You could interview a student who enjoys going to games or a player on the team. If you could interview a coach that would be interesting as well. You could talk about how the teams doing and the future of the team and base your argument on those aspects. Best of luck on your project, this is a great idea you will do a good job!
ReplyDeleteI believe you could have used more direct quotes from your audio essay from NPR. It would have given a better analysis of the essay along with a better description. I used pages 63-64 of the book which helped me somewhat with the analysis of the genre. Also, I like to break my blog posts down a little more by separating it in to more paragraphs making it easier on the eyes and not having such a large block of text. Although almost everyone in the world could build on their writing, I believe you did a good job and had good evaluation throughout. This was a good idea and you will do great.
ReplyDeleteI think that using sporting events on campus such as football and basketball games are a very good idea and there are many different ways you can go about arguing this topic. First, one thing you can do if argue how strong the fan base is and if students get riled up for games. One way you can do this is by interviewing an ordinary student and get his or her's intake on the way students think about ASU's sporting events. Even though Professor L said we have to say that this is a great idea and you will do a good job, I really do believe that you will succeed with this topic for Project 3.
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