Author: William Mcknight

Collaborative planning to figure out what we are going to do for the final project
-research is done because it serves a need
-figure out what experts in the field actually need to hear
-Noah:why does arf continue to be such a problem in developing countries?
Audience could be medical staff in those countries, people with family in those countries, and public health officials who could invoke change, and people who live there.
-lania:what effect does food have on the process of grieving?
Audience could be anyone who eats, people who get eating disorders as a result of grieving, could be psychiatrists or counseling professionals, staff of hospices or people who are about to lose someone close
-Scott: what effect does funding have on hospice providers’ ability to meet goals?
Audience could people that are going to be residing in a hospice, or their families, could be health officials or policy makers, the hospice care providers, donors, insurance companies
-Angelica: how do immunotherapy treatments affect the lives of patients with terminal cancers?
Audience could be patients and their families, researchers, care providers/hospitals, insurance companies, policymakers
-Stephanie: how do race+class change persons experiences in receiving medical care?
Audience could be people who feel that they are disadvantaged as patients, care providers, health insurance companies, the general public
-Laura: how does hospice care help families?
Audience could be families with members seeking hospice care and the clients themselves, donors, the hospices themselves, the doctors recommending hospice care-Matt: how does geography(air+water quality and healthcare systems) affect health outcomes?
Audience could be world health organization members or other large health organizations, real estate agents, prospective movers, policymakers, researchers
****furthering the convo blog entry
**** AND one more blog post
**** AND two comments on classmates blog posts
**** AND read chapt 8 they say I say
1. Bottom line your project.. -what I’m trying to figure out here is….because… -here’s my target audience(and why)
2. Some possible forms that this test might take (brainstorm options)
CONVERSATION ESSAY:
-4-5 pages
– 4 sources
– Dialogue( Fred:…… Noad:…….)

• Analogies use one idea that you are already familiar with and compare it to something similar that are not familiar with, this helps you to understand the idea better.
• Conversations move around organically, from one subject to the next. Your input wont end the conversation, only further it.
• Goal of a conversation is to learn a little bit from other people and to contribute to the conversation by making them think of something in a different way.
• An entry point in a conversation is like exigence in writing.
• When calling someone out for being wrong, you need to think about who the person is and how much power they have.
• When doing something that is risky such as calling out someone who has a phd on being wrong, that can further your analogy. But you need to know what your talking about, you must have ethos.
• Pathos deals with emotion. Logos is an appeal to logic/reason. Ethos can just be building off of someone else’s idea or connecting two already existing ideas, or attach your claim to someone else’s idea.
• Ethos comes down to credibility, you need to prove to the reader that you have something relevant to say about the subject.
• Preface introduces the product and explaining where its coming from, why you’re reading it.
• Introduction is for people who already committed to reading and preface is for people who might want to read it.
• Graff/Birkenstien mention that they are professors to establish credibility, also mention how Birkenstien succesfully used this book to teach her students. (ethos)
• Learned from Joseph Harris: define the project, note key words, consider limits/uses.
• “They say I say” outlines different teaching and writing techniques that some people may know, but a lot of people are not aware of. One of the main ideas is democratizing academic writing and spreading out the knowledge evenly.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/29/health/turning-points-alcohol-aa-recovery/index.html

This story was written by someone who’s sister suffered through extreme alcohol addiction. It goes over how she started using alcohol in 8th grade, and grazes over some of the lowest points in her life. I feel that this piece is relevant to the Syracuse community because our city has an extremely large problem with addiction. Also, the fact that we are in college right now basically implies that there is going to be a lot of alcohol around us. It is important to remember that alcohol can ruin peoples lives. All you need to do to see this in action is go drive around downtown Syracuse for a little bit, and you will eventually see someone walking around and drinking a bottle, no matter what time of day.

http://www.lakecleanup.com

This is the homepage for the Onondaga Lake cleanup project. It is not a news story, it is designed to catch the eye of the public so that they might be motivated to attempt to be involved in the cleanup. The homepage features green decorations that give it the environmentally friendly vibe. There are also pictures of wildlife and plants. There is a lot of information on this website including the progress that they are making,  what still needs to be done, how the cleanup will affect the public’s health and safety, and how people can get involved.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/health/zika-what-you-need-to-know/index.html

This article is about the recent outbreak of a new virus called zika. It is projected to spread to every country in the Americas and it can be spread through mosquito bites, sexual contact, or from a mother to a child. There is currently no cure or treatment for the virus which is why it is so daunting. Syracuse’s summer climate is warm enough for these mosquitos to live here.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/31/health/where-we-stand-now-e-cigarettes/index.html

This article is about electronic cigarettes. It mainly consists of a timeline that portrays all of the things that we have learned about them since their invention in 2003. It is a big concern for public health because all of the concerns of e cigarettes are not known yet. As of now, the main reason that parents are opposed to it is because it is known to lead to future use of cigarettes, and the ages of people using them are getting lower and lower.