Induction evaluation

Induction evaluation

Our original task was to produce a piece of journalistic writing that argued the statement of

"Is music piracy destroying the industry.". The genre i chose was independent hip-hop.

Part of our research was to hold a debate for and against in our class and we were given some time to research and come up with statistics and artist opinions. I represented the "against" side and we won the debate, our research was methodical with all our points being backed up with evidence with also some counterarguments for the obvious points that could be made to weaken our approach.

However as we all know, the debate wasn't to see who was the best but a chance for us to get down all relevant points down so in our actual written piece we can either veer towards a bias or stay objective. I stayed objective as it is easier in my opinion for the article to be more interesting and thought provoking for my audience.

Moving over to my writing skills, I think I wrote in a clear and coherent manner of standard English which is easily relatable to my target audience however I should have had more of my actual journalism than artist quotes. I balanced well the two sides to the argument and I closed the piece well. The downside is that I went well over my word limit which definitely needs to be looked at as in the future this can affect my achievement detrimentally. However as this is only induction I would expect some leeway.

The actual in-design skill I had learnt with a brief lesson by Scott proved sufficient. My finished 2 paged spread looks aesthetically easy on the eye with maybe some subtle additions of colour and theming needed to make it more professional. It was easy to grasp and I look forward to using this 

software some more and learn more techniques on it.

I got audience feedback by one student in my class, and overall she said it was good. She particularly liked my use of font and layout. One thing to improve on is on the range of image and colour which i agree upon as is one of the main things myself critiqued upon. This means I need to work on the visual and aesthetics more in the future.

From all the points made above , I set myself three targets for improvement:

A better use of colour and image in the actual spread.

Maybe a better use of background in the spread rather than just leaving it blank.

Less quotations and more actual written content.