Rhetorical Analysis

January 27, 2016 by gianisad

My interests and goals in college revolve around my two majors of athletic training and physical therapy. In the end my goals for college and my self is to help people. I want to learn how to help people in as many ways that I can in the field that I want to work in and be able to help people outside of my career. I hope to learn all the skills that I need to make me a good physical therapist and athletic trainer, and in the end someone that people can trust and feel comfortable with. I find myself to be very comfortable talking to people I don’t know and have an instinct in wanting to care for people. The skills that I want to take away from the university and community is the education for me to know how to help people. I want to be able to help people when they are injured and know how to rehabilitate them if needed. I feel I can attribute to this community and university by learning as much as I can while I am here and taking away as much experience as I can to better myself to be able to help other people. I want to be remembered as someone who made a great contribution to my school and community with my skills and being able to help people. Specifically I want to make a contribution to the athletic training program here at this school because I have been working with them and have such a huge passion for it. This school has so many great programs for their students and I feel like the way I can really show them how much they have taught me is giving back to this school. Overall I want to contribute in my ability to help people at this school and in this community.

 

 

Health and Wellness Society

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Assignment due on Tues. 2:

Thesis: As shown on the University of Iowa Health and Wellness Society Facebook page, they represent themselves as a positive and well rounded, health promoting organization.

Topic Sentencies:

1. The first aspect in which the society reflects their positive attitude is by maintaining positive images and statuses on their health and wellness profile page.
2. Along with the physical image of the page, the content within shows how involved they are with their community and focusing on the health of the citizens.
3. Finally, this organization is a very supported organization by it’s students and community as shown from the amount of following that this page has.

 

 

FINAL:

Gia Dougherty

Anna Williams

Rhetoric: 1030

2 February 2016

A Society That Cares

The University of Iowa is filled with many different societies and organizations that offers things for people with all different interests. One society that may stick out to those who have in interest in the health field or physical well-being, would be The University of Iowa Health and Wellness Society. This group offers health tips and opportunities to keep their students and community in the best physical and mental health as possible. A piece of text that reflects most of their personality and image would be their Facebook page. On this page, one can find events the organization offers, health tips, and positive feedback on all things related to someone’s health and wellbeing. As shown on their Facebook page, this society represents themselves as a positive, health promoting, and supported organization overall.

The first aspect in which this society reflects their positive attitude is by maintaining up beat and encouraging images and statuses on their Health and Wellness Facebook page. When opening up their Facebook page, the first image that pops up is their eye catching cover photo of an array of fruits. These intensely colored grapes, apples, and oranges immediately draws ones attention to the center of their page and brings an immediate thought of “What an eye pleaser, and good representation of their goal”. This picture automatically tells the viewer what this organizations mission and objective is. After seeing these image, one can begin to scroll down and notice all their positive and encouraging statuses that they update quite often. They have statuses that read “Hey members! Come take a study break and learn about what you should eat before/after exercising and then join us for a fun session in Taekwondo this Tuesday night!”. They word this status in a way that makes the viewer not just look at this event as an exercise class and learning things they should and should not do, but turning it into a more positive perspective and saying it is a good study break and they have a fun treat in the end of a Taekwondo class. All their wording and emphasis reflects a positive light on things that are really just exercise and leaning, and turning them into a break from stress and a fun activity that follows.  Along with their positive statuses that keep their viewers updated, they have more than just one eye catching photo. Their photo gallery is filled with pictures of students and people in the community that are involved with their organization. They have images of some of their involved students creating crafts and boxes to support their food drive. Not only are they trying show a positive physical health image, but a mental one as well. This shows that they are taking an activity such as making boxes and making it fun and positive by gathering their students involved and having them help those that are in need of good health and well being. Their encouraging images and statuses is what makes viewers find this organization to be an overall positive and carrying society.

Along with the positive image reflected in their page, they also represent themselves as a health promoting organization with the events that they are involved with that focuses on the health of their community. They commonly post links and events that they are involved with to keep their followers informed on upcoming events. They are very good at keeping their community updated on all upcoming activities in their community, making sure every one is keeping up with all things going on in their area. Some of the events that they have posted are local 5ks, running programs, or food driver where they can help out at. They even advertise running programs held here in order to get ready for things such as 5ks. They want their students to be involved in all things health related as they can, so offer things at all levels to make sure they are involved. These constant updates on things health related is what draws viewers in to really understand how important their health is to this organization. Along with all the events that they have, they are good at promoting information about all their meetings and get together. These meetings are so their organization can come together as a whole and come up with ideas for their semester where they can get themselves involved with the most recent activities their campus offers that are health related. They post their time and location of all upcoming meetings that they will be holding. This is a great quality that an organization can obtain because this makes the group look trustworthy and responsible. The University of Iowa Health and Wellness Society reflects a very good health promoting image due to how involved they are with their following.

Finally, this organization is a very trusted group by its students and community from the amount of following this page has. Although their Facebook only has 50 likes from other profilers, they have many shout outs and tags from other people that are involved with their organization. This specific page has a pretty standard amount of following for a Facebook page but along with this page they have many other pages, blogs, and informational websites you can find through the University of Iowa that has even more information. Their ability to extend themselves with every social media site that they can makes it easier for their students to constantly be updated and informed which is what makes them so trust worthy. This makes them trust worthy in the fact that, if looking at it in a student’s point of view, being a part of an organization, one would want to always be informed on all things surrounding this society. If an organization is keeping its following informed at all times, it makes this group seem responsible and trustworthy.  The Health and Wellness Societies ability to keep their viewers updated and involved has caused them to not only gain new members but keep them. The University of Iowa has a great number of health students and this is where their main following comes from. The health students at this school are very dedicated students and will maintain a following with this organization due to the fact that this is a very trust worthy society that reflects their values and interests. Being ability to be trusted is a very important quality which is what has helped this organization stay so popular.This organization is an overall a trust worthy group due to their amount of communication skills and responsibility they obtain.

In conclusion this organization is an important society to The University Iowa just as much as any other organization here. It draws in the audience from not only the numerous health and sciences students here but the many other students here at University of Iowa. The University of Iowa Health and Wellness Organization helps promote the health and well being of it’s students and community. They maintain a good positive, health promoting, and trusted public image. This group is a great addition to this university and upholds all things that an organization should have.

 

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