The first design plan was for the first project, Rhetorical Analysis. As you can see that the purpose statement is in the design plan.
A Design Plan for a
Rhetorical Analysis
My Statement of purpose is to
correctly analyze the American College of Sports Medicine webpage. Also make my analysis available and
interesting enough for my audience, classmates and professor, to want to read
it. This means I am focusing more on the content of the home page and how
effective is the webpage. To analyze correctly I will use a few strategies to
complete my purpose.
1.
To focus solely on the home page and how the
components fit together to form the page.
How each of the links, texts, and pictures fit together to work
effectively together.
2.
Break apart each component to find the real
purpose of the webpage. I need to look at the intended audience and context to
better understand the real purpose, not just what the purpose appears to be on
the surface.
3.
Look at the layout of the webpage and figure out
why the designer designed the webpage in the manor he or she did. See if the
webpage is unique of if it follows the basic norms of making a webpage.
I could use a number of mediums to present my rhetorical
analysis; paper, PowerPoint, video, blog, or a letter/email to the administrators
at the ACSM webpage. The medium I will most likely use will be a paper because
it will be easier to contain all my information without leaving anything out,
but I will be posting it to my blog to make it accessible. The arrangement of
my analysis will start with me analyzing the authors design plan then analyzing
the statement of purpose. I will have my introduction touch on my analysis,
then I will go into the five steps I went through for my rhetorical analysis.
1.
The initial sense of the text’s purpose,
audience, and context
2.
A list about everything the webpage has that was
a choice to put there
3.
How are the choices used strategically?
4.
Test observations
5.
Revise original analysis
The photo essay has a purpose statement and a design plan separate.
Statement of Purpose
for a Photo Essay
My audience is my professor,
teacher, and people curious about concussions, which could include
professionals down to someone who has the potential to have one. The context
will most likely be the world since I assume we will have to post this on our
blogs. In addition, though I believe we will each put them on our computer
screens and we will go around the class looking at each other’s photo essay. I
hope that this will teach not just my classmates, but people everywhere to take
concussions seriously and to be careful.
Even though the photo essays will
be in my own personal blog, and it is just supposed to allow us to get an
understanding for our research topic, it will count as a major part of our
grade. Every project in class will affect our grades, and I am striving to do
well on the photo essay to get closer to getting an A for the semester. Since
the photo essay will be on our blog and on our screens in class people should
be able to understand it and understand my purpose for making this photo essay
without me telling every person.
Besides trying to get a good grade
in my class, the purpose for the photo essay is to develop my own argument. My
argument is that concussions are dangerous and there needs to be more awareness
for it. I know if I took pictures of someone hitting their head hard it would
seems obviously dangerous. So I also want to do is show the short and long-term
effects of concussions and some of the real dangers behind it. The problem with
that is a long-term effect could be diseases of the brain and in some cases
death. I am not sure how I would even be able to photographic some of the long
term effects of concussions and I am worried that it might just scare people
away.
I want my audience to learn to take
concussions seriously, not just for the short-term effects, but for the long
ones too. I want them to know that we need to be careful and monitor people who
have had/have a concussion(s), because humans need their brain to live and
damaging it will not help. I do not want people to stop playing sports or
constantly be worried about concussions, just to be knowledgeable about
concussions.
I want this essay to be helpful and
insightful to others and I want to learn more about concussions myself. I worry
I will have a hard time finding the right photographs to get my message across
correctly. I also worry most people will blow by the essay because they think
they know it already or because it will not be interesting enough to them.
Design Plan for Photo Essay
My
purpose is to inform my audience about the dangers of concussions. I know
people know some of the obvious dangers of concussions, but people need to know
the common and the hidden dangers of concussion. I know I want my pictures to
tell a story of getting a concussion so that the reader can follow it. I want
people to see the different ways to get a concussion show it is not only for
athletes. I also want some of the symptoms to show how dangerous and scary
concussions are. My audience will not just be my classmates and professors, but
will also be interested people, people with concussions or even medical
professionals. In class, the students and professor will be reading mine along
with everyone else one after another, so I need to make mine stand out. In the
blog the whole world can see it so I need it to be professional, but it still
needs to catch the average person’s eye.
I am
going to use a series of photographs with a narrative and captions to get my
message across. I need to focus on how people get concussions and symptoms of
one. I also want to show in the beginning that you can get a concussion from
sports, but people can also get it from other traumatic events injuring the
head. I need to take a picture of someone going through the symptoms of a
concussion, and I think my brother, Kyle will be up to the challenge. I know I
cannot accurately photograph every symptom, but I will try to photograph all of
them, and just cut out the ones that do not clearly portray the symptom. Since
my phone has a camera, I will be using my phone and will need to email the
photographs to my computer so I can save them and put them in my essay.
This is
a serious topic, but I do not want my audience to think that I am a super
strict safety person that lives in fear of a concussion. I do not want my
audience to live in fear of concussions after reading my essay. Therefore, I
could in my captions; talk about the correct way to treat concussions, so
concussions can seem like a manageable injury if treated correctly. I could
also potentially throw in a joke or some humor to lighten the mood a little,
and make me seem less strict. I know my essay needs to be focused and
professional looking, but to avoid being too informative and boring I need to
make it funny and interesting. The pictures might make the essay seem a little
more fun. I want my audience to feel informed, but I want them to enjoy reading
the essay. My argument is about showing the dangers of concussions. Since none
of the symptoms will seem like a positive, but rather a negative, people
logically will view them as dangerous. I know I need to put a caption for each
picture or group of picture so that my audience can understand clearly, what
the picture is trying to portray.
I will
start with a narrative before any photographs to introduce my argument and
start my story to my audience. After that, I will have two different photos of
someone getting a concussion, with one caption explaining how in both situation
you can get a concussion. Then I will show some initial symptoms of a
concussion. After that, I will show some more serious and long-term effects of
a concussion. This way it seems more like a story of someone dealing with a
concussion.
I will
test the photo essay, by showing it first to Kyle since he is the model in the
pictures. I also will be having someone from my class peer edit the photo
essay. I will take in to consideration both of the reviews and know I was
successful if they can clearly understand the photos and caption.
The research paper just has a design plan with the statement of purpose in the design plan.
Design Plan for
Research
My
purpose for my research paper is I want my classmates, teachers, and potential
colleagues to recognize concussions as a dangerous injury. I will go into
concussions, and the different conditions that can develop due to concussions. Even
with research, there are people and associations that do not believe that
concussions are a serious injury. This design plan will go over my strategies,
medium, arrangement, production and more for the making of my research paper
To make
a successful research paper that will get my argument across, I need good
strategies. First strategies is to collect good sources that can back up my
argument and make my research paper correct. I will do this by using my
school’s database and looking up only scholarly articles. Another strategy for
my paper is to define and clearly explain any terms, so that even an average
person (classmate without medical background) can read and understand my paper.
In addition, defining terms makes everything clearer and makes the paper
understandable. I will be focusing on the conditions that develop from
concussions. The different concussions will help proof that concussions are
serious and dangerous. These strategies are the ones I will use during my paper
to successful get my argument across to my audience.
I will
be writing a paper for a number of reasons. The obvious reason is that my
assignment is to write a research PAPER. I will also write a paper because I
think with the goal in mind and the period of time I have a paper is the only
way I can achieve my goal. I would like to add charts, photos, or even a video
(not likely for the video) to make my paper more interesting and stick better
with my audience. I will post my paper in my blog allowing the world to see it
so my medium will also be a blog, but still really a paper.
Although
I do not have my complete arrangement for the whole paper yet, I have a good
idea of the arrangement. Of course, I
will need to start with an introduction into my topic and my thesis introducing
my argument. Then I will define and explain concussions, and the other
conditions that develop from concussions. Each condition should get its own
paragraph and examples to make sure the audience clearly understand each
condition. Then I shall end my paper with a conclusion with closing remarks to
wrap up my paper and a last chance to get my point across and maybe even have a
call to action.
I have
twenty-four days to complete my research paper. I have already started
researching by using our library databases to find articles on concussions,
concussions causing dementia, and even causes for professional athletes
with/dying of dementia. Also some of the different condition that develop from
concussions. I still need to do a full research of those topics and not just
glance at articles. I will take notes on articles I find and look up
professional research in this area to help with my paper. I looked up the cause
Justice for Jeff and that people in England fighting the Football Association,
FA, (soccer football) that promised research of head injuries from heading the
soccer ball and development of dementia, but have yet to do a single piece of
research. I would also like to look into the research the used in the recent
NFL lawsuit. I do believe there is a correlation and I think that certain
sports are at higher risk of concussion. I believe that multiple concussions
and more severe concussions can cause dementia. Those are both things I believe,
but I want to have proof for one way or the other so I can know for sure. I
believe those things without complete proof because I have first-hand knowledge
concussions and their side effects and also because of recent lawsuits, I read
about and see on the news. Therefore, to write this paper after I complete my
research I will make my annotated bibliography. Then I will make an outline,
which will turn in to my first draft of my paper. I will then have my peers and
myself edit and revise my paper until it has turned into my final draft.
To make
my research paper successful I need to use strategy, use a paper as my medium,
arrange it correctly, and produce it in my time line. I want people to finally
take a concussion as a serious injury and understand that concussions
mistreated can develop other conditions.
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