About My Paper--Final Week is Comming

This semester, I am taking a great effort in researching and writing the paper titled "How Does Visual Communication Influences Your Children--The Secret of Advertising". I have found some writing rules and interesting tactics in writing process. These new discovery helped me to keep thinking and keep typing, the same with the Blog Name "Doris Keeps Typing". It is really a approach to improve writing skills and increasing the mood in writing.

To tell the truth, I don't like research paper. I guess most students at my age have the same feeling. I always thought that research papers are written by very experienced and advanced scholors who study some particular subjects. Further more, it takes a lot of time in researching and formatting my APA. Seems to be wasting time in the format.

Things changed a lot at the middle of the semester. When I was preparing for the podcast, I got a lot of information and found it not that boring to search for academic journals and scholars. The reason is I became interested in what I was doing. Interest is the best teacher, I guess. Because it comes with me all the time I eager to know more about my topic. Finally, I found that researching is not only for completing the paper, but also for improving oneself.

At the beginning, I research for what I need to use in my paper. Now I research for what is related with my paper, and read it through, reference is from its idea, not just the information. If I don't think about it, I cannot get the idea, nor to use it in my paper.

I think the most inficient way to write a research paper is that read, read, read, and read as much as I can before referencing. There is a story: one can give another a cup of water only when he or she has a dousin cans of water. To read more is a process of collecting water.

Harvest season for this semester is coming. I hope to collect enough "water" before the final week. There is still a lot ot work to do.
Thank you, my teacher and my TA.
I appreciate your help!

2 more sources Apr. 13

Gantz,W Ph.D., Indiana University
Schwartz,N Ph.D., Indiana University
Angelini,J.R M.A., Indiana University
Rideout,V M.A., Kaiser Family Foundation

Food For Thought--Television Advertising For Children in the United States. (2007).
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/7618.pdf

This is a great source for my project. I should find it earlier before I started the paper. I still need a lot of time reading it. I found it useful and reliable.
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Jenkins, Henry. (2009).
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=T1i_nQrg-vkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=advertising+21st+century&ots=idnJY6wfdy&sig=tfsdIGN5Vyq1a36pQ1vbDNMllxA#v=onepage&q&f=false


This one is focused on digital learning, also visual communication used in helping children to learn. I don't know if this is a good part to add at the end of my text. It seems too far away from what I wrote about before. but it is related to the topic.

May

http://www.davidairey.com/advertising-to-children-right-or-wrong/
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/advertisingisgoodforyou/

Pictures for Slideshow :*-)

The first picture is a sushi laptop. I believe the creative design must lure you want to eat it up. So visual function wins. Sushi is made of rice, laver, vegetables, and
beans, so it is very good for health. It doesn't matter how much you eat before getting full. The life expectancy of Japanese is one of the longest in the world, there is a reason can't be ignored that is to eat low Cholesterol foods.

Food is no longer food when it is reshaped or reorganized in certain way. For example, when you eat an apple, you may not think of a beautiful butterfly. But if you see an advertisement for a special species of apple that is butterfly shaped, you must develop imagination. “Why is that?” Then the commercial tells you that “our apples are planted in deep forest where butterflies live. Green fruit, no pollution…” That’s it. You begin to drool at the apples.

According to Science of Psychology, associative learning occurs when a connection , or an association, is made between two events. In this case, broccoli is connected with a lovely cartoon figure. Since kids like cartoon figures, they turn to love broccoli as well.

On the other hand, associate something really awful to junk food and show them on TV will immediately change children's attitude of what they liked.

Parents are children's first teachers. What parents do will influence their children, no doubt. Despite visual communication, informational social influence plays an important role, too. Children follow parents' behavior and copy their attitude because they want to do good be right. Therefor, parents should enjoy eating vegetables and fruits in front of children even though they don't like it.

6 Pictures for Slideshow--------

Accidentally I published this blog in another BLOG of mine this morning...


http://634094776.blogspot.com/2010/04/6-pictures-describe-them.html

SlideShow Draft

For my slide show, I will show you some creative food advertisements that catch your eyes and leave you deep impression. Those excellent advertisements may have great influence in advertisement industry in the future because they will break the way people simply think and lead us to look at food in another sight.
Food is no longer food when it is reshaped or reorganized in certain way. For example, when you eat an apple, you may not think of a beautiful butterfly. But if you see an advertisement for a special species of apple that is butterfly shaped, you must develop imagination. “Why is that?” Then the commercial tells you that “our apples are planted in deep forest where butterflies live. Green fruit, no pollution…” That’s it. You begin to drool at the apples.
What I talked about is a simple example of creative advertisement that gives people a guide. If you open your mind, you will find that visual communication is not only applied on advertising. Kids who love junk food love junk food advertisements, too. Is there a way to turn them back from the misleading of junk food advertising? Of course! Use your creative images to teach them what is fresh and good for health, what isn’t.
Then I will show some excellent creative fruit and vegetable images. Those images will give kids deep impression and they will love the healthy food. On the other hand, if we connect junk food pictures with something kids don’t like, they will rapidly change their attitude on junk food.




Amazing Creative Food Art.
Image from http://designbeep.com/2010/04/05/52-amazingly-creative-food-art/
Before-After.
Image from http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/american_kids.jpg