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2. Explain how you composed your message (purpose) in multiple forms.

We used pictures, facts, and testimonials to get our message across. Furthermore, we used transitions and effects to make the information more appealing to the viewers.

I used text to answer the question, because it gives me an opportunity to collect my thoughts and answer the question as best as I possibly can.

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What is the topic for your opinion piece?

The topic for my opinion piece is physical child abuse.

What is the policy change you suggested?

The policy change I have selected is for schools Pre K-12 to hire professional children psychologist to help the school counselors with children suffering from acts of child abuse and any other problems as well. Also, I suggested that counselors make themselves more open to the children or students at their respected schools.

Why the genre you selected is the best format for your opinion piece?

I selected this genre because I feel it is the most professional and efficient way to get my message across.

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Option A : I think a concern that my group will encounter with the film documentary is the editing. Editing is very tedious and sometimes even with all of your focus,you can still mess up.

Option B: My concern with group work is that you are accountable for another person and they are accountable for you. Your grade depends on their effort and vice versa and sometimes one person is stuck to do all the work.

For my University class we had to work on a research paper in groups and we all divided up the work and I was going to be the one to put it all together. When I receive everyone’s work I noticed that one person in the group copied and pasted the example our professor gave to us in class.So, I had to redo her whole portion as well as work on my own and it was unpleasant to say the least.

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1. Describe the rhetorical choices you made in writing your research questions (use multiple images/sounds, etc.) in order to get an A on this assignment.

The rhetorical choices I made when writing my research questions was first looking for sources that would give my paper pathos. Pathos is important because my topic brings out emotion in others. Therefore, I chose sources such as non-profit organization websites, which are bias, but provide information spoken from the people my topic is about personally.

Furthermore, I wanted to chose a source by someone with experience in the field my topic was about. For example, I chose a video by a doctor with over 30 years of experience in the field my topic was about to give my paper ethos.

Overall my choices went off of what questions I had on my topic.

Those are a few of the rhetorical choices I made when writing my research questions.

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One of the obstacles that I am currently encountering with the Literature Review assignment is narrowing down my topic. In the previous assignment the topic was narrow, but still broad. For example, my topic is child sexual abuse, narrow, but could even be narrowed down even further. This is where I am struggling. The question I am asking myself is, “Do I want to narrow it down to child sexual abuse in the U.S,  in Texas, or even El Paso?”. 

Furthermore, with that question anwsered I can move on to the structure, then from there the content, sources I am going to use, etc. But until that question is anwsered I am stuck at square one. Even though I did turn in some research questions that were supposed to help out, but it didn’t I feel. 

Overall,  I need focus! Hence the reasoning behind the photo attached. I just need to try harder and hone in to answer my question and overcome this obstacle.

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 How does studying genres impact your writing?  

Studying genres can impact an individual's writing by improving it. Studying genres challenges someone to looking deeper into the message or purpose of the genre. In other words, not just take it at face value. For example, you can see a iconographic genre such as a video and say something along the lines of, "it was good"; but by digging deeper into the genres purpose you are able to give a better analysis. Especially when you are writing about it. Studying genres is very beneficial when it comes to writing, but it also depends on who is the studying the genre. The person studying the genre must be very observant in order to give a detailed analysis.

To conclude, studying genres can impact someone's writing in a good way, but it also depends on the person writing about the genre on how well it impacts the writing.

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WEEK 2 TYPOGRAPHIC EXAMPLE

Genre: https://fysopchildren.wordpress.com/vision-child-abuse/

  Purpose: The site states, "All of the issues covered in FYSOP require education and having the knowledge about issues can lead to actual improvement in these issues. This knowledge base should also be shared with others: the more who know, the more we can prevent, the more we can report, the more we can help”!

Audience: The audience are people in the city of Boston, Massachusetts because the organization the website is for is located in Boston. However, the broad objective of this site is to educate people on youth issues such as, child abuse. Therefore,  the sites targeted audience is anyone willing to learn or take preventative measures against issues regarding youth.

 Ethos: The site is credible because it backs up the information they provide by providing credible sources on where they received that information and giving credit to those sources. Furthermore, the site is biased in favor of victims of youth abuse, but in this case that is not necessarily a negative attribute.

 Logos: The site is consistent in its message which is, educating people on youth issues. Also the site is easy to navigate. Moreover, the site provides information on events in the Boston area that residents can attend to gain knowledge or spread awareness on youth abuse.

Pathos: The site uses a chalkboard theme to portray that the site is for youth issues. The fonts used are also quite playful, there are no times new roman or Calibri fonts. Colors used are green and red to bring out emotion and to show importance. The site uses language such as "grave issue" and "immensely challenging" to show significance to it's cause.

 Delivery: Mostly typographic, but uses visuals(such as the one posted) to bring out emotions to help resonate with it's audience.

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Damien Smith RWS 1302, CRN:16160, 10:30-11:50, uglc 232

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