ENG 4UI

Media Studies

Advocacy Advertising: Media Analysis

Instructions:
1) Read pages 471-480 in Echoes 12. These are five examples of media texts which will help you
to complete your own media analysis and presentation assignment.
2) Complete questions # 1-4 (page 481) as practice.
Assignment: Increasingly, corporations, non-profit organizations, and governments are using advertising
and marketing to promote images and ideas. This advocacy advertising is usually less direct than
product-selling advertising.

Research a variety of media sources from the Internet and choose ONE to present
Create a short presentation (5 minutes) alone or with a partner
Provide examples of some of the ways your organization uses advertising and marketing
to promote ideas (you could show your example to the class via Power Point, an Internet
website, or on a poster)
Comment on the effectiveness of the media texts you present

Knowledge &
Understanding
/10
Showing
appropriate media
source to the class;
demonstrate
understanding of
the media text

Thinking
/25
Research,
Analysis,
interpretation, and
understanding

Communication /
10
(eye contact, voice
projection, clarity,
confidence, flow of
talk)

Level 4
Images and text
are displayed to
class with a
high degree of
effectiveness
Demonstrates
very strong
understanding of
media chosen

highly logical
and coherent
information
given
sophisticated,
insightful
comments made
about the
effectiveness of
the media text

expresses and
organizes ideas
and information
with a high
degree of
effectiveness

Level 3
images and
text are
displayed to
class
effectively
Demonstrates
solid
understanding
of media
chosen

logical, useful,
coherent
information
given
solid
comments
made about
the
effectiveness
of the media
text

expresses and
organizes
ideas and
information
with
considerable
effectiveness

Level 2
images and text
are displayed
with some
effectiveness
Demonstrates
some
understanding
of media
chosen

Level 1
images and text
are displayed with
limited
effectiveness

Below Level 1
No media
displayed and /
or below level
of expected
understanding
shown

Demonstrates
limited
understanding of
media chosen

information in is
rudimentary
and/or lacking
somewhat in
logic,
coherence
some
comments
made about the
effectiveness of
the media text

not useful and/or

not thorough
and/or not
coherent
limited comments
made about the
effectiveness of
the media text

not effective

expresses and
organizes ideas
and information
with some
effectiveness

expresses and
organizes ideas
and information
with limited
effectiveness

ineffective

TOTAL

/ 35 Media Studies

TOTAL

/ 10 Oral (Person #1) _______________________

/10 Oral (Person #2)________________________