This is the draft of my final project, and the target audience is members of academia and specifically members of the history community. The current curriculum of historical education is still quite limited and confined very much to the modern nation state. Even when teaching about foreign countries and cultures, many western textbooks will refer to history in Africa, Asia or even Oceania as their national histories, when the modern form of nationhood is very much Eurocentric. I hope that my work will allow individuals interested in bettering historical education to understand the urgent need to diversify the curriculum.
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Research Project Draft-Caitlin
This is my final project draft. My audience is college age men that struggle with mental illness because it is a very big issue that still has a stigma attached to it. I thought that the best way to reach my audience was to make an infographic that could potentially be email to the student population of Syracuse because that would ensure that a great number of the proper demographic would see the information. I still need to add my citations for my final submission, but this is what I have so far!
Audience, audience, audience
Know the 3 most important factors in real estate? Location, location, location.
Well, for writing, it’s audience.
Take a look at the rubric for your Unit 3 project, and you’ll see this come up again and again–note how many of these items hinge on textual features that are appropriate to the audience. That’s why you need to have a very clear picture of who your audience is, so that you can better assess what they will need and expect from you, so that you can deliver.
Presenting your research in an audience-appropriate fashion is the critical to the success of your communication. You might have terrific information and important new ideas to share, but if you can’t make them land with your audience, there’s little point in you writing in the first place.
That’s why we’ve spent the last couple of weeks looking at texts that weren’t scholarly articles or straightforward academic-style essays. Those genres work really well for certain audiences and purposes–to communicate cutting-edge new ideas to other people with some background knowledge/expertise in the field–but they don’t work well for everybody all the time. We depend upon other genres to communicate in other situations.
And that’s why I’ve asked you to get pretty specific in setting forth the rhetorical situation that you’ve conjured for this text you’re creating. In order to understand and evaluate your work, your readers need to know just who you’re aiming to reach and under what circumstances. That’s why I asked you to include an explanatory note with your draft. You’ll do the same with your final revised version.
It’s worth reviewing some of the myriad ways in which audience matters
Decisions about audience and purpose are intrinsically connected–it wouldn’t make sense to provide general knowledge background to people who are already experts, nor would it make sense to lobby entry-level workers for policy change (since they’re not the ones who make those decisions). Your audience and your objective need to be tightly and logically connected.
Your audience dictates various writing choices–how long will you be likely to have your readers’ attention? how much specialized jargon can you use? how much background information will you need to provide? what’s an effective level of detail? what kinds of examples will they be most interested in? what source information will your readers expect to have for their own follow-up? what kind of relationship will you seek to establish with them?
Knowing your audience lets you shape your text to be functional for them–in terms of level of formality, voice, use of graphics/media, visual organization of the text, incorporation of external links, etc.
I encourage you to reflect on these choices as you’re completing the revision exercise this weekend and as you’re revising your final project for submission on Wednesday, 8/25. Please note that due date–the final project is NOT due on the final day of the summer term, in part because you have some other work to complete afterward (your course reflection and any outstanding assignments you might have, AND in part because I know this is a transitional period for many of you who are heading into fall classes and/or other responsibilities. This way you’ll have one big thing cleared off your plate and will be that much closer to moving on.
If you have any questions as you’re working on your revisions, please don’t hesitate to email me. I’m happy to correspond that way or to chat by phone/Zoom. It’s been nice to see some of your faces (albeit on a screen) over the last few weeks. I’ll gladly arrange a time to chat with any of you who would like.
Hope you can all find some time to enjoy this last week of summer. To those of you in NY/New England, best wishes over the next 36 hours–I hope Hurricane Henri decides to shift course and pass offshore. Stay safe.
Research Project Draft- Joanna
I attached my rough draft/brainstorm sheet for my infographic! I have found a lot of sources and took some notes but I need to organize it and pick out the most important pieces. I created my own template on canva and I made a tentative title. I am nervous all my information will not fit. Let me know what you think! 🙂
Research Project Draft
Here’s a link to the blog I created. The content to review is on the Home/Welcome page, Blog page, and Essential Reading page, which includes all of my references. I look forward to getting everyone’s feedback.
As I researched AI in HR this summer, I realized that there isn’t an online resource center dedicated to collecting and sharing information about this issue. I saw an opportunity to create a blog that could eventually grow to become the trusted resource for the community interested in this topic. My target audience includes people concerned with protecting worker and civil rights, including the workers themselves, but more specifically individuals who have some authority to make change, such as disability rights activists, social justice activists, legislators, scholars, journalists, and people working in employment law. My audience also includes business and human resource leaders, developers of AI for HR technologies, and others interested in improving their products and practices.
I realize that the long-term scope of this project is huge, so my goal was to set up a flexible framework for the blog and write a couple of posts to welcome readers and introduce some of the more pressing issues, especially those related to bias and discrimination. Depending on how much revising I need to do by next week, I may also add a sample advocacy letter in that section of the site.
I know it will require lots of effort to draw traffic to a new blog, but I can imagine ways to do that by writing posts on other sites and referencing my blog, using social media, and inviting contributing writers who have many followers. Because different stakeholders have different goals, I will strive to invite contributions from different points of view. Ideally, the blog would grow to become a vibrant forum for the exchange of information and discussion of issues leading to more transparency, more accountability, and real change.
Taking It Public Draft-Ed-Invisible Disabilities
This is a draft of my project which is a memo written to advisors of individuals with invisible disabilities. I envision this as offering advise to professionals who work with individuals with disabilities. For example, Syracuse University has individuals assigned to work with people that have disabilities to help their transition to the University as well as work with them on whatever adjustments are needed.
Let me know what you think.
Research Project Draft – Sherri
I am writing an article for business leaders who understand that they should have a solid diversity policy in place but don’t realize that those policies might miss the mark when it comes to their Black employees. These leaders might not know much about the history or current state of Black labor in the U.S. and may view D&I as just making sure there are a variety of different ethnicities at their company. They haven’t really thought much about inclusion and equity. I envision readers will be checking out their online subscription to a business magazine that regularly offers insight into employee matters.