Applying for a master’s degree has been an extended journey with interesting twists. I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Even since I was a kid, and without me even know it, I was creating communication tactics to persuade. At the age of 8, I sent a letter without my parent’s consent to a children’s magazine in Santo Domingo called “Al Compas”, encouraging and creating awareness about contamination and discrimination against children with disabilities. During my high school years, I transformed most of my classes’ presentations into TV programs to facilitate my classmate’s interest in the presentations and avoid them to get bored by hearing the same information over and over. At the end of High School, I received the “Student Excellence Award” and won a scholarship to study in Universidad APEC, where I started a Bachelor degree in Communication, majoring in Advertising. …show more content…
My first contact with Public Relations was through a course with a talented professor working for the PR firm Newlink, she introduced me to a new aspect of Public Relationships, was in this course where I understood that my communications interests and writing skills will be more suitable with Public Relations than TV production. In 2011, I completed my bachelor with a thesis about viral marketing as a communication strategy in the Dominican Republic taking as a point of reference a viral advertising campaign for the product “Knorr Mi Arroz” by Interamerican-Lowe Agency. At the moment, viral advertising was not as common in the Dominican Republic but it was a promising field
Newsom, D., Turk, J., & Kruckeberg, D. (2013). This Is PR: The Realities of Public Relations
Newsom, D., Turk-Vanslyke, J., & Druckeberg, D. (1996). This is PR: The realities of public relations 6ed. United States: Wadsworth Publishing
Public relations have been a prominent aspect of society for millennia, dating back to 50 B.C. with Julius Caesar and referred by the Ancient Greeks as “semantikos”, which is the practice of persuading people into a belief or action (Witman, 2000). Public relations is still been influenced by the contributions of key historical and contemporary figures including Benjamin Franklin and Ivy Lee.
I am always a little nervous and hesitant when I begin writing an essay. Ever since I was little I was an honor roll student, passed all my tests, was placed in honors and AP classes, and eventually graduated a year early from high school. I used to be so confident when I would begin writing a paper, I could finish it within a couple minutes. During junior year of high school, I began taking duel credit classes. I was passing all the classes so far until I reached English 111. It was an 8-week course and I started to get overwhelmed. All throughout the course I was having a little bit of trouble on the essays. I would still receive a passing grade, but it wasn’t an A. I began becoming a little discouraged and didn’t understand what was going
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
A couple of weeks ago, the class was assigned a personal narrative essay and the prompt was to tell an interesting story of a specific experience that changed how you acted, thought, or felt. To be honest, I was awfully excited to write this essay because talking about myself is the easiest thing to write about sometimes. However, deciding what experience to talk about was challenging because I have already experienced so much in my seventeen years of being alive from dislocating my hip when I was three, to seeing my grandfather die in front of my eyes, from almost tripping off of the trail on the Grand Canyon, to meeting band members at an airport. Writing this essay brought me many challenges, I did not know what topic to
Throughout the years certain paradigms have become a big part of my life. Some paradigms are overwhelmingly difficult to change whiles other are long forgotten and overcome. I try new thinking patterns as often as I can, but sometimes it takes a while for me to get rid of my old ways and get used to my new ways. The following paradigms are the hardest to change.
Wilcox, E. H., Camerson, G., Reber, B. H., & Shin, J. (2014). Think public relations. (p. 50). Allyn & Bacon.
In life, a person experiences different types of situations that bring forth certain emotions and behaviors. Oftentimes, it benefits people if they try to look inside themselves to discover why they act a certain way during various moments of their lives. In this essay, I will be investigating my own reactions to life events and discovering certain positive elements that should be encouraged or any negative aspects of my behavior that need to be changed.
The discipline of public relations is a modern profession which has been in existence for only close to a century; however, it has already taken an important role in the fields of business, government, entertainment and non-profit organizations including educational institutions and healthcare organizations. Public relations professionals are required to have excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills and have the ability to persuade the public. It is imperative for PR professionals to effectively communicate with its public in order to establish and maintain a positive relationship. Furthermore, public relations professionals must have the ability to work under pressure and effectively manage crisis which may have detrimental effect on the company and the public it serves. State purpose of paper and an overview of what will be covered in the introduction
Enthusiasm, persistence, adaptability and authenticity are the characteristics Professor Alyson Moses pinpoints as key to the public relations profession. Alyson Moses is a Strategic Communication Lecturer at The Ohio State University, as well as co-moderate of Ohio State’s chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America and student-run public relations firm. Professor Moses is an exemplary example of drive required to be successful in the public relations field. The Public Relations Society of America defines Public Relations as, “Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.” Among other skills that will be highlighted, prowess in writing
Having completed English 101 in the spring of 2015, I was nervous about entering into the second writing course because I perceived it to be twice as challenging. This course was very challenging but I had many recourses and responsive instructors to ensure my success. The course design is conclusively the greatest element of my success in writing my researched position essay. The course reveals the “skeleton” behind the design of what an article or paper’s construction is made of. There are various styles of augmentative or researched position writing, and having the ability to recognize these will further you ability to quickly and completely analysis someone’s writing. However successful my writing may have seemed I do still have deficiencies
Scott, D. M. (2010). The new rules of marketing and PR: How to use social media, blogs, news releases, online video, & viral marketing to reach buyers directly (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Furthermore, a public relations career is much more closely grouped with media relations these days than journalism. In the book, Making it in Public Relations: An Insider’s Guide, it is said that Media relations is the most dominant function of public relations. Its basic role is the origination of press information and the handling of requests from the media about a specialist’s subjects and activities. After all, the main goal of specialists is to present a positive public image of their client to the public (Mogel). The possible types of clients and fields vary wildly from each other. Some specialists can work in public relations consulting firms and hold campaigns for many clients. Other specialists can work in the advertising departments of major brands and w...
For a long time I have been interested in the subject of psychology. The ways people behave and why they do certain things has always fascinated me and makes me question myself a lot. To answer these questions, I started to read many books that related to psychology to gain as much knowledge as I can. I now have a better overview of psychology so I would like to continue to further my knowledge at a higher level in Berea College.