- What might the title and title format imply? Bold text heading, title in the form of a question, or sarcasm depicted in the title. Is there a hierarchical structure in the format? My choice of title is in a question form “Cloning: is it right? Would you want to be cloned?” I chose a question because it draws the audience to answer them and wants to read more. Also, the bold text heading in the tile.
- How do your visual images help your audience adapt to scientific ideas or terms? My first choice of the image draws the reader’s attention because it has the word “warning” on it, and my second choice of the picture includes a visual procedure of how the terms I am discussing like therapeutic and reproductive cloning and work. My third choice of picture is a picture of Henrietta lacks an image of a woman’s experience I decided to insert a picture of her because thought she was a big important element in my research essay.
- Are there any words or formalities your audience might find confusing? I made sure the choice of formal words was there but I explained procedures and the meanings of these words.
- What linguistic ideologies might the audience hold? On the human cloning process, I decide to just add one example of this and not expand too much so this would leave the audience the ability to search for the problem and act on it. Also, the structural racism that was mentioned in the paper can be a topic of importance.
- Explain how you address memories of structural racism or classism in science attributing to peoples’ distrust in science. Using examples of procedures that have been done where structural racism happened. And how we should act on it.
- What informal terms, slang, or colloquial phrases are you assuming your audience knows? Terms like DNA, and cells.
- Are there examples recounting real-life experiences that might resonate with your audience? Yes, I talked about this procedure being done to the foods we consume every day which is a thing that has been done for years, but it leaves the reader with the curiosity of researching what they’re eating every day and where it comes from.
- Does the essay format help or impede understanding? I believe the flow of the essay gives an understanding while also keeping the audience interested in the topic.
- What do citing sources imply about the information you are sharing? The citing source implies the definitions, along with different studies on the topic for example Dolly the sheep it’s an article that explains how this sheep was created and her life span. The video I used it’s a video explaining how cloning works, and different types of cloning but it does not take sides on whether cloning it’s good or bad. The New York Times Article was about the research done in south Korea where a human was cloned but researchers had to stop the procedure due to ethical reasons. Ultimately Hentitta lacks an article where it explains what happened to her. The articles I chose were pretty short and interesting I made sure they were this way so the audience can open them and read for themselves.
- Describe the secondary audience least likely to read this article and explain why? The secondary audience that is least likely to read this article is maybe researchers since they already know all of this information and the article was mainly appointed for an audience who doesn’t know the information provided.
- How might you make this information more accessible to audiences who don’t read the New York Times? First of is a free article that anyone could read, also I feel like the people who write the New York Times article half of the time don’t experience what they write about and I like the structural racism, also the way I provided such a complex idea to the public in a way that anyone could understand and the New York Times does that but only sometimes.
- How might you present this information differently to second language learners? (Language, format, and medium (video/poster/flyer/essay) Explain your response. As a person whose first language is not English, I would maybe make the poster or title of my article in another language or even use examples of research done outside of the US, done by people who don’t speak English.
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