The Magazine that I chose to analyze was “Seventeen”. Ironically the magazine named “Seventeen” has an article in it written for an eleven year old. The Fry Graph has proven by the amount of sentences in a one hundred word article with the amount of sentences and syllables that it is suitable for an eleven year old. The ratio of content pages to advertising pages is 81:66. This means that the magazine “Seventeen” has many pages that have nothing to do with what the magazine is about. There were various advertisements all throughout it. My magazine compared to others at my group has a lot more advertising. This says that “Seventeen” magazine is taken less seriously because it has a lot less content pages for actual articles. This also goes along the lines that it is for eleven year olds so they aren’t even going to notice the ratio between ads and content pages. A profile of this magazines prototypical target reader would be an eleven year old female, with a not so good reading level because there are few articles and they’re all decently short. They would be interested in fashion, life tips including boys, ways to eat healthy and also just plain old gossip.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Transitions From High School To College
How do freshman in college view the transition from high school to college? Do you think that some students are able to adapt better, or do you think some find it difficult to even adapt at all? What about both? I was very curious and wanted a heads up for when I go to college to know how well the average student views his or her transition from high school to college. In doing so, I emailed my sister who graduated Norton High last year and is now a freshman at Regis College in Weston, Ma, asking her to forward the email in which I sent her, to other students attending Regis as well. In my email I wrote, “How do freshman in college view the transition from high school to college?” and I got five responses.
In the five responses I received, they all wrote a few opinionated sentences on how they felt about the transition. Between all of them, two out of the five said that the transition is made out to be more scary and intense than it actually was, and three of the five said that it was very for them to adapt. The emails varied from missing home, families, siblings, old friends and getting used to the work load of staying up till 1 am to study for a test to expecting all of this work and preparing your self to stay up late and study as long as you can. Some took the summer to mentally prepare for the life on your own and even preparing for the amount of work given and expected to be done while others took the summer to live in the moment and take their last few weeks with their families and friends to relax, enjoy their freedom, and try not to stress out as much before school actually starts. Sydney Castagno, a current freshman at Regis, states that “overall, I think this transition makes people learn a lot about themselves, and what they’re really capable of”. Coming from Rachel Baldrate, she says how the classes are a lot more difficult than high school classes considering that you are more independent. She conveys the general message that “the professors will not hold your hand through an assignment” so you are on your own. Throughout all of the hardships in the transition such as work and time spend on assignments; they all seemed to love the freedom they are given. They are expected to do everything on their own but as two of the replies mentioned, they love the freedom that is given to them.
As a result, you can conclude that two fifths of the survey thought that the transition from high school to college was about what they had expected and prepared them selves for while the other three fifths said that the transition was not easy and a pretty tough especially the first few weeks. This shows that more than fifty percent of students that I surveyed agreed that the transition was more tough for them than not.
In the five responses I received, they all wrote a few opinionated sentences on how they felt about the transition. Between all of them, two out of the five said that the transition is made out to be more scary and intense than it actually was, and three of the five said that it was very for them to adapt. The emails varied from missing home, families, siblings, old friends and getting used to the work load of staying up till 1 am to study for a test to expecting all of this work and preparing your self to stay up late and study as long as you can. Some took the summer to mentally prepare for the life on your own and even preparing for the amount of work given and expected to be done while others took the summer to live in the moment and take their last few weeks with their families and friends to relax, enjoy their freedom, and try not to stress out as much before school actually starts. Sydney Castagno, a current freshman at Regis, states that “overall, I think this transition makes people learn a lot about themselves, and what they’re really capable of”. Coming from Rachel Baldrate, she says how the classes are a lot more difficult than high school classes considering that you are more independent. She conveys the general message that “the professors will not hold your hand through an assignment” so you are on your own. Throughout all of the hardships in the transition such as work and time spend on assignments; they all seemed to love the freedom they are given. They are expected to do everything on their own but as two of the replies mentioned, they love the freedom that is given to them.
As a result, you can conclude that two fifths of the survey thought that the transition from high school to college was about what they had expected and prepared them selves for while the other three fifths said that the transition was not easy and a pretty tough especially the first few weeks. This shows that more than fifty percent of students that I surveyed agreed that the transition was more tough for them than not.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
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