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Final Project, Aaron

Attached in a link is my .pdf of my final project. In this, my expected audience would be high school (and possibly undergraduate college) students. The attempt of this research paper is to discuss the problems of both bias in education and diversity issues in education (as they’re both very related). The sources I used were book chapters in books dealing with diversity and a study that shows the difference in academic performance in relation to the instructors bias towards black students. My intent with this is not necessarily to give a how-to of how to fix the problems with bias and diversity in education but to get students thinking, and to be aware that these problems do exist.

 

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Final Project

While researching more about the discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community, it struck me how invisible this all was, especially for someone like myself who does not identify with the community directly. My audience is everyone, I think that this “invisible” discrimination is huge and needs to be spoken about more because sexuality has no color or ethnicity since anyone can identify as anything. My purpose is to educate others like myself, who were blind to how much discrimination the community faces, and to reach people of all ages I believe an infographic is the most direct way to reach such a wide variety of people.

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FInal Project

WRT 205 Final Article

For my final project I chose. to do a New York Times article about the topic of diversity in education and what schools can do to increase their diversity numbers. I wanted to show how important diversity and inclusion was for students so I included all the benefits of it as well as graphs showing that it does in fact need to be addressed. As I mentioned in my discussion post for the draft, my target audience are students and parents. These are the groups who are most affected by whether screening is in place or not. Next would be teachers and administrators. I mentioned in the article how big of a role teachers play in students education. We have read about decision makers in the workplace and how big of a role they play for everyday lives of the workers, this is no different with the faculty of schools. The purpose of my article is to inform these groups on a topic that is very important in todays society.

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Taking it public, Final 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.

Outline of Rhetorical Situation

The audience of my work is people with neurological disorders and professionals in the work place who are responsible for hiring employees. The purpose of my research is to educate companies on the misconceptions of people with neurological disorders, and how intact, they can actually benefit a business, because of their different ways of thinking. The delivery of my research should be a book format, where anyone can read and make further decisions of their own.

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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Final, Policy framework, Isaac Haseltine

FINAL PAPER

The policy framework I have written is intended to be used in any educational organization. Its main goal is to highlight the complexity of the discriminatory profiling that takes place in educational settings against minority groups and the racially/ethnically diverse people that belong to them.  The framework has been written for the teachers, administration, and faculty that work and or interact with students. Furthering their knowledge on the generational issue will help create a more widespread understanding of the position we are in, and the position our society forces people into.

The focus of the framework is based on how our current education system is not adequately addressing the issue of disadvantages based on the racial or ethnic background of the students. The goal was to shine a light on these disadvantages, and to help inform the educational professionals how important their multicultural awareness is for their students. The framework would be a part of a booklet that all staff in the organization must read and discuss, it is not meant to be read by the select few who choose to do so.  The booklet would contain general information on the organization and its mission statements, as well as information on the subcategories within the organization that need extra attention. The function behind the framework is to act as the catalyst for discourse in hopes that it will open people up to a serious problem many people ignore.

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Final Project

For my final project, I created a magazine graphic to fit into an academic setting. The purpose behind this delivery is to inform university audiences of the significance behind recognizing language diversity. Above is a link to open the issue and read more on my research/ presentation.

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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]