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Discussion Prompt Week of 7/27

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The image above is similar to my genre because this shows an example of an Instagram story posted to social media. While I couldn’t find any Facebook post example templates, I’m creating a similar idea that this story portrays because I want to include a series of posts. This type of writing offers easy-to-read visuals, catching headlines, and big fonts which attract the audience. I believe this sample is very effective, as so many teens and young adults now are consumed by social media. I like how simple and interactive this genre is. While you can’t ask Q+A’s on Facebook like this picture shows, the viewer is still able to react to a message by loving it, liking it, commenting, or sharing. It may be less successful in a way where too many details cannot be shared, so the content is less specific than an article, for example. The lesson I am taking away from this sample in crafting my own project is to create a layout that is fun for the reader! If it’s not interesting to their eyes, it won’t be interesting to read.

 

 

 

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Final Reflection Unit 3 – Dominique Van Gilst

When I began my unit 3 final project, I knew that I wanted to somehow talk about inclusion in education. I immediately knew that my project would work best as a powerpoint because I would be the “teacher” presenting to my audience. At first, I thought that it would be good to do my presentation thinking my audience was students. However, I ended up making my audience be the parents of students who are going to be learning in an inclusive education classroom because I thought about all of the back to school night presentation teachers gave to my parents, and how they always came home excited for me about the upcoming school year. Once I decided on my audience, I also thought that it would be good to add a slide about the ways in which parents can talk to their children about inclusive education. Again, I was thinking about how my parents would come home from back to school night and talk to be about each class. I then found sources I thought would work well for my audience to explain inclusion to them, and finished my project. Throughout the time that I was working on this presentation, I thought a lot about what I learned about the audience of a text in this class. I wanted it to be very evident that my audience was the parents of children going into an inclusive setting, so I prioritized that. Once my draft was completed, and some of my classmates commented, I was able to really take their thoughts into consideration and use them for my final draft. The comments I received helped a lot because before I read them I wasn’t sure what to do to improve my project; I was sort of stuck on what I had. 

Creating this project has helped me to do google slides in general. I think that doing this presentation virtually actually allowed me to put less words on each slide, and use my voice to explain more about the topic, which is something I have always struggled with since I am so shy. I also think that completing this project will help my future career because I want to be an elementary school teacher, and I will have to give back to school night presentations, and possibly even something like the one that I created for this class. Finally, I was very excited to share what I have learned about inclusion to our WRT 205 class because I think that inclusion is a topic that is important for everyone to understand. This project allowed me to learn more about the field I will be working in while also sharing my findings with the class. 

This project was very valuable to me, especially because I was able to learn so much about a topic I love to learn about. Not only was this project extremely relevant to my future career, but it also was helpful for me to do this project to learn about presenting thoroughly, and using research to guide that. Overall, I am really happy that this was one of the assignments for this course because I was able to pick my own topic, audience, and layout which allowed me to be more creative.

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Unit 3 Final Project – Dominique Van Gilst

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XWyQvhRiTjKvf0hQSCBa19RW5-tdwSbqIcrVuBnlxQg/edit#slide=id.g35ed75ccf_0134

When I did my unit 3 project, I thought of it as a back to school night sort of presentation for parents, but geared towards inclusion. The audience of this google slides presentation would be the “parents” of my “students” that I would be teaching that year. The purpose of this presentation is to explain to parents that their children will be in an inclusive setting, and what that will mean for their child. I decided to do my project in the form of google slides because I wanted it to seem like an in person presentation as much as possible. I also added audio for this reason.

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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.

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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

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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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Discussion Week of 7/27

The presentation that I found to mirror what I will be focusing on shows how to address the topic and the genre of a presentation about empathy and the workplace. The first source I found is a presentation that discusses empathy in the workplace. The presentation “Empathy At Workplace” was written by Abu Zafor Md. Shaleah, Assistant Manager HR at A Leading Group of Companies and published on slide share which is apart of the LinkedIn platform. I choose this example because I can learn from the features of the writing such as the way that the author addresses the topic. He spreads the terms and points out throughout each slide telling a story and keeping the attention of the audience. The presentation does a good job of introducing topics and defining them before diving into examples and resources, this influenced me to make sure to limit the amount of vagueness in my presentation. I am going to try to incorporate how the author includes common questions on the topic and then respond with answers that way the presentation connects with the audience. Since the bibliography is a large part of this project I made sure to look at how these sources cited the work. In this presentation, the author used a slide at the end to summarize all of the references. Though I like the idea of a reference slide, in the end, I do think that it could be organized better and I will aim for that when creating mine. The platform the source is posted on also influenced me when deciding to have the presentation be published online or presented in person. Publishing my presentation on LinkedIn slide share similar to this presentation seems to be the best choice because it is a platform that is constantly populated with college students. Overall this source is a good reference for me when crafting my work and I will take the positives and negatives from it to move forward.