Kthrnsantos’s Weblog

I am a BACA student in the UP in Mindanao. Advertising would then be a part of our chosen career. In connection to this, persuasion to the multitude or the readers, followers, consumers and costumers would then be a big factor to put in mind.

The Central Route to Persuasion occurs when the attitude of the audience, or individual, is changed as a result of thoughtful consideration of the message. It needs greater message elaboration in order to capture the populace’s attention. Smart’s commercial with the Talk N’ Txt mobile network brand. The Talk N’ Txt GSM sim was basically trying to convince the people with the following testaments from the so-called talk n’ txt users:

• “…swak sa budget ko!” “Sulit sa Talk. Sulit sa Txt.”
• “…daming mapaglo-loadan.” “Sulit sa 1 million outlets.”
• “…ganda ng signal.” “Sulit sa Nationwidest coverage.”
• “…madaming ka-talk n’ txt.” “Sulit sa over 7 million subscribers.”
• ” Di lang mura, Sulit talaga!”
• ” Talk N’ Txt, gumagaan ang life.”

The Peripheral Route to Persuasion occurs when positive or negative cues (such as images, sounds, or language) are associated with the object of the message. An advertisement featuring a song that the audience member likes, or a person whom the audience member sees as appealing might cause a person to have positive feelings toward the brand, without that person ever thinking deeply about the message. Like for example, the Nike commercial:

Without knowing that these people on the video clip, you wouldn’t know that its a brand of shoes that they are advertising.

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This is actually an invitation for those who wanted to join our extreme adventure activity this coming April. My friends and I had agreed to spend our summer and my birthday as well in the Outland Adventure Park in Barangay Langub, Davao City. It offers a wide range of amenities and activities you surely don’t want to miss and you would surely enjoy.

It’s actually 2 nights and 3 days rope-based exercises. You’ll surely enjoy the it both in low and high elements. Reflection and meditation with your friends are also part of the activity ensuring you life-impacting and self-disciplining adventure camp.

Hope you could come with us too!:) It’s really something worth doing! I assure you.

You could always post a comment for more information or send me an e-mail at kthrn_santos@yahoo.com. We still need about 15 more participants:)

Dear narrator,

You’re old enough to stand on your own. You wanted your life to be ruled all by yourself and you always wanted to be free and to be away with your parents who annoy you by nagging and pushing you all the time with the things you never wanted for your life. I know what you feel. I understand why you’ve been acting that way towards your parents. You needed freedom just like me and any other teenager. And we believe that they don’t understand our needs.

But the only reason for that is they care about you and they worry about your life and your choices. They worry about your future and they wanted to make it as green as they wanted it to be.

You’re parents are just there to help you and guide you. At this point of your life, you have a lot of problem that is too difficult for you to solve alone. You need them and they need you also.They are destined to be there to advice you whether you like it or not. You just have to keep in mind that they know more about your life.

And about your sister, she’s a teenager too. She wanted to be free too and she wanted to be alone just like you. Actually, you’ve been acting the same way with your parents. You’re just like them now. You’re giving advices to your sister for you know what’s best for her. Same way with your parents.

Katherine Kaye Santos:)

Jim and Shelley were linked with their feelings of closeness, safety, and trust towards each other. They have an intimate relationship that is needed to be maintained as healthy as possible. But they end up having a conflicting tension with their relationship when Jim suddenly get interested with her personal writings but Shelley don’t want it to be shown even to his partner.

To Shelley…

I understand your standpoint. I have my own diary as well and I never wanted it to be shown with other people even to those who people who very close to me. I have my personal thoughts, feelings, and emotions that need to kept private. I should have my own privacy too. But considering that you two were bonded with the love you have shown to each other, you must know that Jim just wanted to keep your relationship intact by just simply knowing that there is no secrets hidden between the two of you. He doesn’t own a diary but we all know that he has own secrets too. He was just somehow comparing your way and his own method that is indeed different from each other.

You might be thinking that there are writings in your diary that may cause conflicts, or they may be used for you to be judged unlikely, or other reasons that makes you hesitant of showing it. If you trust him and you know that your indifference and your shortcomings will not be cared of by Jim, then you have to show him that you don’t have any secrets hidden that is affecting him or may affect him simply by showing your diary to him or when you really wanted to keep your privacy, you should let him know about your feelings and thoughts regarding the conflict tension. And the best thing that he could do is understand you and trust you fully.

First week activities

• Look for a topic that interests you.
• List key questions that would help you with the topic.
• Write a statement of purpose.

Second to Third week activities

• Use the encyclopedia to define terminologies are needed to be defined.
• Look for references fairly connected with your topic.

Fourth Week activities

• Gather all the information and identify the best sources/references to use.

Fifth and Sixth week activities

• Make an analysis of the gathered information.

Seventh week activities

• Make a draft of your research project.

Eight week activities

• Write the introduction and conclusion.
• Citation of references.

Ninth and Tenth week activities

• Write the body of the research project.
• Publish the paper.
• Turn in your paper on time.

This blog entry would serve as a research paper proposal with regards to the communication act I have chosen. The first part would be the conceptualization of the research that would summarize it entirely. The next part would be the references that could possible be used for the research. The last part would then be the calendar of activities that would show the time duration used for the research.

The title of my project is:
“Bridging the Gap of Communication Through Sending Letters”

The problem this project will address are as follow:

Below are the activities to complete in the proposal:

Gather information from/by

• the internet : 1st-3rd week
• book references : 1st -3rd week
• interview : 3rd- 6th week

Analysis of the gathered data : 7th-9th week

Publication of the Research Project : 9th-10th week

My mother and I had a big fight last Sunday night and we haven’t fixed the problem yet. Well the problem wasn’t really that serious but she reacted exaggeratedly making our small fight a huge one. She’s still cold to me and to my sister as well even until this very moment. I still don’t know what to do in order to make things right. Her pride was unbeatable making me so worried about my dormitory fee and other things that needs financial assistance from my mother. Luoy kaau q!!! waaaaah!

So many commands I have to follow. Rules and orders that shouldn’t be failed to comply. You should abide with all the rules all the time. Too many ‘You should and must haves’.

But time has changed the ‘compulsory’. I am not anymore enforced to follow all these unavoidable system of policy. I have at least a crumb of freedom now taking into consideration that I’m old enough to manage my own self.

Back in my kiddo years, all I can do is play all the time and think of life as a fantasy full of magic. A life lived without misery and no worries to think of except for the rules and regulations that are naturally there for guidance sake. I have lived a life full of blissful memories as a kid.

I haven’t reached the maturity age of 18 yet. But I know for myself that my parents have given me away a bit of freedom to make use of. And maybe in two years time, I believe that I’ll get more freedom to squander.

I’m 16 years old freshman of BA Communication Arts in the University of the Philippines in Mindanao. Entering college life is the latest thing that happened to me which only implies that I am spanking new to the real world.

‘Real world’ I call it. This is it! This is where I’m letting the freedom soar. This is where I’ll stand with my own problems, have them by my own way and face them by my own as well.

But actually, facing reality doesn’t start when I entered college. I really realize it in the midst of my schooling as a Fourth year high school student. I realized how far I have gone through with all these years. I realized that I’m far away from what I used to be. Physically, I’m truly a big girl now (literally). Ha, ha, ha! Seriously, I don’t wear dress jam-packed with ribbons and ruffles that itch, shoes without heels unless it’s the fashionable flats, and the pony tailed hair that imitates Sailor Moon. I don’t struggle and wrestle my younger brother for the sweets brought by my mother, I don’t cry anymore when my favorite ice cream or lollipop drop off the floor, and most of all I’m merely stumbling, falling, and scraping off my knees running to catch my playmate. I’m more of big girls’ activities now… flirting, kissing, and hazing. Ha, ha, ha! Just kidding! I’m engaged to more mature activities as of the moment, but with limitations to think about. And as a young mature, I know for myself that I can’t make it all alone by myself. I need the pieces my life that made my life worth living. Pieces of life I call for myself as my family, my friends, and the people whom I loved and loved me as well.

Having the freedom to be ‘you’ and you alone is a chance brought about by maturity. But I’d rather make it a choice knowing that now and again I need the people around me as a shoulder for me to lean on.

We were asked to write a blog regarding the communication act we refer to use in this activity. I was thinking of the ‘interpersonal communication act’ then suddenly our letter sending activity back in my Elementary years comes to my wits and further use this in relation to this blog activity I have in my COMA101 subject

Interpersonal communication on my own understanding deals with the process of sending and receiving information between two or more people. It involves the four basic elements consisting of the sender; person who sends the information, message; the information sent by the sender, channel; serves as the pathway in order for the information to be transmitted, and the receiver who receives the information sent.

On our letter sending activity, we were asked to write a letter to a friend whom we haven’t seen for quite a long time considering that they are miles away from us. I was thinking of a friend who is way back in the New Jersey. She was my friend who migrated just months ago before the ‘letter sending activity’ thing has begun.

Basically, I wrote her a letter for the activity’s sake. I was just asking her questions like, “how’s your stay there?”, “Is the weather fairly adaptable?”, “how was the people?” and so on. I wasn’t expecting her to respond on my letter. But one day, I saw a letter on my room with my friend’s name in the envelope and I realize that she receives the letter and does the ‘feedback’ thing. I was so grateful for what had happened.

That started again our communication that had been lost for months. For now, we no longer have this letter sending activity but we’re still communicating with the use of the Internet for e-mail messaging that is basically for reaching out purposes.

No matter what method we use, as long as you are exchanging information with each other, communication still exists.