My ePortfolio part 5 assignment

Hello to everyone today is my final ODU Persuasion COMM333 course blog post.

The objective for my ePortfolio part 5 assignment is to write a 600-800 word reflection as a Blog Post on my Wix page regarding my experience in COMM 333 and the value of my ePortfolio and submit my ‘published’ link in the appropriate space in Blackboard by the time/date assigned in the Class Schedule.

I will be addressing other questions in my blog:

a. In what ways do you think you have improved your professional presence after

completing the COMM 333 ePortfolio?

b. Identify and explain what you like most about your ePortfolio.

c. Which assignment in persuasion that you posted to your ePortfolio was your

favorite? Why?

d. Identify the most challenging aspect of the ePortfolio.

e. What advice would you give to future students about this part of the ePortfolio?

f. What component of Persuasion was most interesting to you?

g. Is your view of persuasion different than when you began the course?

Why or why not?

I know I have I have improved my professional presence after completing COMM 303 because I have become more aware of how persuasion is being used in just about everything. The strategies that are used in persuasion are well thought out and planned. Though I am no expert I will continue to learn and understand different strategy techniques used in persuasion.

The things I liked about my ePortfolio are that I created it from scratch. I choose the background, the colors, the font, the layout and everything else. I made it mine because of the information I added to it. This now has become my electronic resume. I will continue to use it and update it and present it to future employers of my past professional work. I also like that fact that it is a free web site and it is very user friendly to create, update and use.

The assignment in persuasion that I posted to my ePortfolio that was my favorite was the ePortfolio part 3, problem-solving assignment. I enjoyed that we were able to pick out a film or documentary of out choice to analyze and pick out the examples of persuasion that took place. I had watched the film that I had chosen before but now after have taken this class I felt that my eyes were a little more open and I was looking for certain things in and about the film. I also enjoyed that part of the assignment what we were able to respond to our peer’s posts. I found it very interesting to see what film they had reviewed and see how they analyzed the examples of persuasion in their film. I wish that in more of the assignments that we were able to see our peers work after it was turned in to see another person’s perspective on the assignment. Receiving a critique from the instructor is nice and informative but receiving a positive critique from a peer is very rewarding.

There really wasn’t a challenging aspect of the ePortfolio. As I have stated above it was very easy to navigate the Wix website and create the ePortfolio. My ePortfolio assignment 4 was the most challenging assignment for me. Though I enjoyed and had fun finding my 5 advertisements to analyze my main problem was keeping the presentation to 4-5 minutes. There was just so much information about the motivational appeals to the effectiveness of each that I couldn’t get my presentation under the required time.

The advice I would give future students about this part of the ePortfolio is to have fun with it and make your ePortfolio site reflect who you are. There are not many classes where you are given the leeway of creativity. When the class is over continue to use the ePortfolio and update it with other projects and items.

The components of Persuasion that were most interesting to me were nonverbal influence and gaining a better understanding for the theories of persuasion. My weaknesses in communication are the nonverbal influence that I have and present to others. I am trying to be more aware of them, as my wife would say my eyes and facial expressions tell her more than words do of what I am thinking. Through this course I have learned about social impact theory, social comparison theory, language expectancy theory, reinforcement theory, social judgment theory and others and I have found them all to be interesting.

My view of persuasion is a little bit more broaden than when I began this course because as I have stated above I have become more aware of the persuasion theories and how they are used to influence others. As we learned in the beginning chapters of our book the benefits of studying persuasion are: instrumental function, knowledge and awareness function, the defense function and the debunking function. I know I will continue to enhance my knowledge and awareness of persuasion.