Month: August 2020

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Instructions for submitting your final work

With the end of the summer term quickly approaching, you’ve got some looming deadlines, but you’ll have a little bit of extra time. Read on for instructions and deadline info.

Final projects will be due by the end of the day on Thursday, 8/6 (this is a 24-hour extension). Please post your project to the blog, and be sure to do the following:

  • if your project takes the form of anything other than a blog post (for which you could use Expressions to build your document), please insert your project into the post as a usable file (i.e. PDF) or link. Use the Add Media button on your post to do this. Remember that you can title that media in the Add window, so that whatever text you want to have will appear where you embed the link.
  • in the body of your post, include a brief outline of the rhetorical situation for your text–the audience, purpose, mode of delivery/publication, etc. (Remember that you have full control over this and can create whatever hypothetical situation you desire.)
  • categorize your post as “Taking it public,” and tag it with “final project,” “unit 3,” “week of 8/3,” and [your name]

 

Your Unit 3/final course reflection will be due by the end of the day on Saturday, 8/8 (this is also a 24-hour extension). Please refer to the unit 3 assignment sheet for the prompt for this 500-word post. Please note:

  • this should read like an essay (not just a Q&A)
  • you should categorize this post as “Taking it public,” and tag it with “week of 8/3,” “reflection,” “unit 3,” and [your name]
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Unit 3 Draft

For my project I created a presentation that will provide information to school officials on how to promote inclusivity within public schools. Minority students struggle with finding resources and excelling in gifted programs within large schools. However, In my powerpoint I provide not only information about the gifted programs and how to create a more diverse student body but also resources on how to elevate minority students and ensure their path to success. Within this powerpoint schools will be able to learn new methods of inclusion and incorporate them into future enrichment programs.

Draft Link

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Unit 3 Draft, Benjamin Fisch

Statement

My research project is intended to be viewed and absorbed by people with neurological disabilities, and professionals who are responsible for hiring individuals in a company. The reason why my findings are directed towards professionals responsible for hiring, is I want them to learn more about the skillets and positive abilities of people with neurological disabilities, so that these professionals will be more inclined to hire them. I would like my research to be discovered by people through a company’s human resources department, because I think this method of contraction will be most sensitive to the needs of people with neurological disorders.

Project Proposal

The tone that most of the authors use in the research writings I identified and examined for my research proposal, is a direct and straight to the point tone. Some of the texts that I reviewed in my research portfolio are extremely long. Some are even hard to read in their entirety. Also, one are very short and quick to read. The ones that were quick reads and the ones that were slow reads, both succeed in communicating an argument or delivering more research to me on neurodiversity in the work place. The authors in the research I collected are mostly very formal. Some of texts I read if not most of the texts I read, include vivid detail to help explain the points that the authors are trying to make. In the research I conducted graphics do not really play a role at all. Some of the texts that I examined on neurodiversity in the workplace included subtle images embedded in the text, but I did not feel like they were needed to illustrate a point or provide detail on the subject. The images in the text kind of just blended in with every thing else. The vocabulary of the authors texts also stood out to me as something to recognize. The writers use advanced choices of vocabulary in their texts

.! rounding out the conversation

!complicating your research assignment

!preliminary notes exercise

1WRT 205 focusing flowchart

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Unit 3 draft

Unit 3 Draft Link

My project audience would be college juniors and seniors that are entering workplaces whether that be internships or full time jobs. The goal  for my presentation is to be an asset for them as they enter, giving them the tools to make adjusting to the workplace easier. The tools I will be focusing on is how to bring perspective and empathy into the workplace. I will be creating a visual presentation that will be posted on LinkedIn’s platform slideshare. This is a platform where people come to learn and share especially college students, since LinkIn is popular among that demographic. The circumstances that the audience would be in when reading this presentation would be if they are either, looking for resources before entering a workplace, or sent the resource from a teacher or mentor sending them advice. I choose this circumstance because often college students receive information better when they seek it out rather than being forced to read or do something. I hope to achieve my goal along with clear graphics and charts to make the presentation easy to understand and more engaging for the age group.

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Unit 3 Draft

The audience of my project include college students (mostly juniors and seniors that are present in a job hunt post – graduation). For my genre, I decided to incorporate social media and pretend to do a series of Facebook posts. Because Instagram has brief captions and seems informative, I chose Facebook as my social media platform because less younger kids and teenagers have it where this information would not apply to them, you can share Facebook posts directly to your profile and it will stay pinned there, and most college students are on it a good amount for a variety of reasons. The attached media is a pdf of what would be a series of posts all belonging to a single profile. My purpose and intention with this project layout is to address students who are headed into the workplace with a bunch of different generations, and advise them on what they should know and expect from employers.  This is just my draft so I plan to take feedback I receive to have it updated for the final.

series of facebook posts

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Unit 3 Draft

For my project I chose to replicate a New York Times style article. The target audience are primarily students and parents. I am trying to get the point across to these groups because I feel that these are the groups most affected by whether screening is in place or not. Next is administrators and teachers of the schools. It is beneficial for them to know what is going on in not only their schools, but other schools as well. The purpose of my project is to inform readers on the importance of inclusion in education and how the screening process can help diversify the schools. I still have to include a couple more sections, as well as more info graphs and fix the graphs sizes and format to make it easier to read.

http://docs.google.com/document/d/1S2T1V0CdpbC4XLcvaYwzzOXtJKNJFG32p0ekFfPM5DQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Unit 3 Draft

For my project I decided to create an editorial ‘magazine’ that I’d imagine being published in an academic/ university setting. What I have currently is a very rough draft basically ‘free-designing’ where my main text, key headlines, and graphic content would go. The idea here is to create a hierarchy of information for my audience to quickly visualize and understand the message I’m trying to deliver (seen in the title of my project). I’m also aiming to follow the same narrative voice both news articles I found last week (see last discussion post below) by hybridizing the two and including mixed-media sources. The purpose of me posting on ISSUU (web platform) is so that this piece is available to the public which is generally catered for students and creative publications. As such, those interested in learning about getting a bigger idea of language, diversity, and the value it can bring to organizational settings (like the benefit of students familiarizing themselves with this as a means to increase employment opportunities in the workplace) would read on under these circumstances.

 

Week of 7/27 – Discussion

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Rough Draft of Project

My final project is going to center around the importance of Universal Design and the importance of accessibility. I decided to use a blog site as I felt as though my target audience would rely on media outlets like such for news information and other stories. I am still working out the kinks of the blog, however this is the rough draft. I decided to incorporate the importance of organizational culture in the workplace as something that facilitates universal design and an inclusive working environment.

Rough Draft

 

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Mike – Draft Presentation – 7/31

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Well, it seems that my plan to share a PowerPoint deck hit a big snag when I discovered that it’s impossible to do so on the blog due to “security concerns.” While I figure out a workaround, please enjoy the PDF’d version of the presentation. Not nearly as exciting, but hopefully you’ll get the gist.

As I’ve mentioned previously, my imagined scenario is me in a conference room with a handful of executives attempting to convince them of the importance of corporate responsibility. I’ll do this by demonstrating the relationship between consumers and the market.

In the finished version, I plan on recording my voice as I go through the presentation so you can get a better sense of what it would be like to be in the “audience”. However, lost in the conversion from .pptx to .pdf are the draft “speaker’s notes” that I had included. These are not fully formed, but I’ve included them below in an attempt to provide some insight into my current thinking. Thanks to everyone in advance for your input and help!

“Speaker’s Notes”

Slide Two:  “There is a long history of consumer activism in the United States…”

Slide Three:  “In the 1830s, the Quaker community of Philadelphia and Wilmington, DE began to establish markets which sold produce and other goods not sourced from slave labor….”

Slide Four:  “Let’s fast forward nearly 200 years to the present. Walmart & Target have essentially the same business model, but attract a very different cliental…”

Slide Five: “How did this happen? Well, according toJessica Stewart’s essay from Shopping For Change….”

Slide Six:  “Increasingly, citizens are engaging less with the traditional political process, and voting with their pocketbooks. According to Caroline Heldman in her book Protest Politics in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Corporate Age …”

Slide Seven:  “An example of a company who have been quite public about their own activism is Ben & Jerry’s. Not only have they created special-edition ice cream flavors to promote causes of equality and social justice…. (cite https://www.chuckjoe.co/how-ben-and-jerrys-incorporates-social-responsibility-through-conscious-capitalism/)

Slide Eight:  ”Core to this concept is the creation of clear mission statement. An effective mission statement will….”

Slide Nine:  “Navigating this path will not always be easy. Nike decided to publicly support the Black Lives Matter movement, however, accusations of underpaid staff in Asia working in “sweatshops” threatened to undermine the message.”

Slide Ten: ”Regardless, it is worth the risk. Consumers have more choices than at any other point in history. Surveys demonstrate….cite Cone Comms/Echo Research re: chart)”

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Rough Draft

This social media infographic would ultimately catch the attention of those who are not educated on the discrimination faced within the workplace for those who are part of the LGBTQ community. I would want the post to primarily be showing the statistics in a visual format that would captivate an audience of people. These posts could be shared around, spread through social media, as more become aware of the predicament our society is in. The primary purpose is to educate those who are not too familiar with this said discrimination, either they do not see it or do not fall victim to it.