Wednesday, April 25, 2012


Mayra Gonzalez
Professor Marca
English 113
26 April 201

CSU Nasty
Have you ever been in a dirty bathroom? Has it made you held you pee in because you are disgusted? Our website addresses the issue of the restrooms in CSUN being dirty. The message to the audience is how everyone needs to clean up after themselves in order to fix the issue. Our point gets across by rhetorical devices throughout our website in which is the method we get our point across. On the top of our website we located five tabs that each focused on different rhetorical devices. Our decisions were directed in specific to students at CSUN.
The website displays the colors red, white, black and grey. We broke our website into five different tabs on the top. The tabs include the homepage where pathos is displayed through images and a small intro located in the left to get emotion from our audience. The second tab is of a dirty restroom image located in the left and a list of the germs that a dirty restroom can cause (logos). The third tab is the interview’s which displays two images of students and a conversation between a janitor at CSUN who spoke out in which are people who see this issue displayed everyday (ethos).  Our fourth tab has lyrics to our jingle located down the middle and a link that takes you to a video in which we made that displays our reaction of the issue and delivers a message of cleaning the restrooms through our jingle (pathos). The last but not least tab is an about us page which is a page that we students from CSUN created to other students at CSUN and included the reason behind our website and our emails in case they need to contact us (ethos).
Our website appeals to pathos by the pictures, colors, and interviews we have on our web. The websites background is black and gray because the issue is something that reflects darkness in CSUN.  We used the colors red and white as the color of our text to capture the viewer’s attention because it contrasts with the darkness of the back round. The title for our webpage is CSU Nasty and is located on the top of our home page in big white letters making a statement. The main picture that is big and located in the center of our webpage is a closer look into a restroom stall. The pictures located in the middle of the web were close ups of hair, yellow toilet seats, and paper thrown everywhere to capture an emotion from an audience. We also interviewed students to ask them their opinion of the restrooms got different emotions. A lady by the name of Kathern screamed out “ There awful,” while we were interviewing someone else, which clearly showed her emotion towards the restrooms. The pictures, and interviews we choose to display on our site were to get an emotion from our viewers.
Logos is used in our webpage by mentioning how budget cuts have made a difference by cutting janitors, which meant restrooms get cleaned less often then before. It is logical that we should clean up after ourselves. We have links on our webpage that lead our viewers to different diseases that improper sanitation can cause. Logic plays a role in our webpage by displaying the diseases it will make students at CSUN keep restrooms clean. It is common sense that people should treat their school as if it is their second home because it is a place we like it our not we spend a majority of time at. No one wants to catch a disease and no one should be proud of having gross restroom because it only makes our school look bad in which it reflects back on us and can threaten our health being.
Ethos is in our webpage through the interview link located on the top of our page. That page was focused on the students overall thoughts of the restrooms. There opinion is credible on our webpage since they do pay tuition to come to this school, their voice matters because they are the ones who witness the mess as well. Students are credible to our webpage because they are the ones who witness horrifying things in the restrooms and are the ones to notice and speak the truth. Ethos is also displayed in the middle of the page in red words were it describes a certain conversation between a janitor and a student which are two credible people who play a big role on the issue of the dirty restrooms.
CSU Nasty needs to just be CSUN and we should all be able to take pride in the school we attend. We should feel safe and be able to walk in to a restroom without wanting to run out the door or hold our “business” in. The webpage has graphic images that will really get a reaction out of the viewers (pathos). The images are located everywhere and we know people automatically look at pictures first. We had to get their attention to get them to read and look through our webpage and made sure our webpage was simple for our viewers to navigate our web page. We included facts that would get students at CSUN to be more cautious and respectful to our restrooms so we wont catch a disease (logos). The interview page is credible because the issue is from us students to students (ethos).
Here is our webpage enjoy

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