Day: April 1, 2024

Analysis Reflection Mind Map

I particularly created my mind map showcasing different subjects that I would be interested in. That I would consider fun for my essay. I used Canva to put it together and like the collage from our last assignment, this was fun working on. I like putting this together because of the liberty I have to choose the format I want to use and the subjects I would want to research.

Using this mind map I separated each subject I would write about, and under it, I added some information as to where the course of my writing will go. I picked subjects that I feel that are gripping for the audience, and that would keep me interested all the way to finishing my essay. All the subject I am debating between are linked to social media and I wanted to do it this way since I believe that we are all attached to it somehow.

using this mind map helped me to put all of my ideas into the sheet so that I don’t forget any and that I can do deep research about each, and come to my conclusion. I am the kind of person who forgets most things if I don’t have them written down so this was a really helpful activity.

Mind Mapping

The subreddit community I investigated was the College Meme subreddit (r/CollegeMemes). Personally, I was interested in learning about this online community because I enjoy engaging with humorous content and am currently a college student.

Using the mindmap, I organized my findings into a few branches stemming from the central topic. I outlined the purpose, audience, language and tone, as well as community dynamics. The purpose was fairly simple, which was to share relatable, funny, college memes to build a sense of community for college students. I assumed that the primary audience was current or former college students since having a college experience would be necessary to find the memes funny or relatable. In terms of the language and tone, generally casual and humorous discourse was used across various posts and it was the opposite of the type of discourse that would be expected in most college classes. For community dynamics, I found that users engaged with other users and their content by upvoting, commenting and creating new memes. 

Having a platform to freely organize my analyses into a mind map format helped me understand the relations between each point. When I flesh out more ideas for my analysis paper, perhaps I could add more points or reorganize it. This digital tool will be extremely useful for structuring a well organized rhetorical analysis paper and I look forward to using it for other projects as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeMemes/