FOA Written reflection

Area to which the task is linked. (Please include the sub topic to which it is linked)

Persuasive language in media text.

Activity type: Oral presentation.

In the table below, candidates must list the source of all support materials that relate to the presentation. (You should also attach a properly formatted bibliography, as appropriate.)

Title of Work/Text	Author	Text Type
Persuasive language in media texts.	Iris Breuer and Melanie Napthine with Rosemary O´Shea	Informative text.
"We choose to go to the moon"	John Kennedy	Political speech (persuasive)
Victory speech in Saint Carolina, Idaho.	Barack Obama	Political speech (persuasive)

"Safe a Life"	"Safe a life" company.	Advertisement
"Will to win"	Nike company.	Advertisement
--------------	Axe	Advertisement

Bibliography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVyDi-iwuNY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2xPvYgTvr8I

http://www.managetrainlearn.com/page/an-appeal-from-Aristotle

http://changingminds.org/techniques/language/persuasive/persuasive.htm

http://medialiteracyproject.org/es/language-persuasion

http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/speech-topics/persuasive-speech.htm

http://www.speechgems.com/persuaders.html

http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/presidential-speeches/john-f-kennedy-speech-we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon.htm

In the Further Oral Activity I learned and develop new skills to use language in life, because we saw a lot of videos and publicity spots that have to do with persuation, learning styles, registers, tones, figurative language, etc. I liked very much the "Victory speech" of Barack Obama, because I could learn from his personality a lot of language techniques that may be useful in the future for my career.

My purpuse on the FOA was to determine the techniques in oral/written language by watching and analizing a lot of publicity spots and speeches, and also a lot of investigation with many resources about the persuasive language themes. Finally we were able to establish a lot of techniques that we didn´t notice before, like "The rule of three" and the use of subliminal messages.

To conclude I have to say the I liked very much the topic of my FOA, because it was in straight relationship of the topics we were viewing in class, specially language. I had fun and learned a lot of politics and marketing that also were in relation with the topic of the work. My partner and I could develop all the objetives that we wanted before we started working.