Mayra Gonzalez
Professor Marca
English 113
May
8, 2012
CSU
Nasty
Have
you ever been in a dirty bathroom? Has it made you hold your 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 them
selves in order to fix the issue. Our point gets across by using rhetorical
devices throughout our website. Our website has five tabs located on the top of
the page that focus on different rhetorical devices. Our decisions were directed
in specific to students at CSUN and the message was delivered throughout a
video we made as a group.
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 throughout 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 interviews’ which displays two images of students. There
is also a conversation I over heard between a janitor and a student at CSUN
about the restrooms. The students are the ones who see this issue displayed everyday
therefore they are credible in having a say (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 for other students at CSUN and included the
reasons 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 website’s 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 background. 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 “ They’re 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 than 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 there school as if it is there second home because it is a place we, like
it our not, spend a majority of time at. No one wants to catch a disease, and
no one should be proud of having gross restrooms because it only makes our
school look bad. This reflects back on us and can threaten our health and well-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. Their
opinion is credible on our webpage since they do pay tuition to come to this
school. 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, CSUN students, to
other CSUN students (ethos).
Here is our webpage enjoy
