PHOTO ESSAY: Statement of Purpose
I have an idea to focus my photo essay on the personal, documentary-like story of myself. I have recently noticed that I have many religious and scientific experience each day and I want to shed light on how religion and science can co-exist. The growing debate over religion and science bothers me in the fact that their arguments are set up so there will be a winner and a loser. Although I do believe that they should each have boundaries from each other in certain situations, I would like to argue that there is still room for both in our daily lives if that’s how one chooses to live. Although I am not religious anymore at all, I grew up catholic and feel that I have enough experience to present a well-balanced argument. This photo essay will not debate nor support religion and science. This photo essay will not glorify or undermine religion and science either. This photo essay is essentially to explore the prevalence of the two in our American society (using me as an example) and will also suggest some questions in regard to where and where it does not belong in respect to each other. I am composing this for my peers who may have noticed similar occasions of their coexistence. I am also composing this for anyone who is one-sided on the issue and I offer a non-biased look at how religion and science can have a mutual relationship.
I have an idea to focus my photo essay on the personal, documentary-like story of myself. I have recently noticed that I have many religious and scientific experience each day and I want to shed light on how religion and science can co-exist. The growing debate over religion and science bothers me in the fact that their arguments are set up so there will be a winner and a loser. Although I do believe that they should each have boundaries from each other in certain situations, I would like to argue that there is still room for both in our daily lives if that’s how one chooses to live. Although I am not religious anymore at all, I grew up catholic and feel that I have enough experience to present a well-balanced argument. This photo essay will not debate nor support religion and science. This photo essay will not glorify or undermine religion and science either. This photo essay is essentially to explore the prevalence of the two in our American society (using me as an example) and will also suggest some questions in regard to where and where it does not belong in respect to each other. I am composing this for my peers who may have noticed similar occasions of their coexistence. I am also composing this for anyone who is one-sided on the issue and I offer a non-biased look at how religion and science can have a mutual relationship.
***This essay will be specific to the Catholic/Christian religions due to the pictures I plan on taking, but the message applies to all religious practices.
VISUAL/TEXTUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS: Statement of Purpose
For this writing project, I will continue with my theme that explores the incorporation of religion and the incorporation of science into the next generation as I analyze written texts and accompanying visuals. However, now my audience consists of my scholarly peers, and I am assuming they only have casual familiarity with the issue and the texts I am analyzing. Compared to my Photo Essay, this analysis will be more complex and sophisticated in light of a more academic reader, but will still focus on content (the posters) designed for a younger or more impressionable audience. Using four snapshots of a public ad campaign for Science World, I want to argue that these ads are successful in the company’s goal to “not only to increase awareness of our organization and introduce our "personality" to the community, but also to support our mission of engaging the general public with science in a way that is both thought-provoking and fun” by means of a subliminal appeal tugging on the audience’s curiosity and fear provoked by specific images and diction in the advertisements. This analysis will identify the strategies that these advertisements employ through their visual and written components. I want to then discuss how these work together and how they accomplish the company’s goal through a more complex way than Science World has stated in their ad campaign quoted above. I want my audience to agree with me on my analysis as well as open their eyes to not only what these advertisements do successfully, but also what they could have done better. I also want them to see and be convinced of my second argument, that subliminal curiosity and fear, not just being thought provoking and “fun,” is what makes these advertisements so successful.
ARGUMENT SYNTHESIS: Statement of Purpose
For this paper, my intended audience would be the college age student, specifically the more impressionable and less committed to a specific career choice student, like a freshman or sophomore. They need to be educated in order to understand certain big-idea concepts and interested in their future career. This paper will argue the necessity of a college education AND experience in terms of what it will provide future employees in the modern and unpredictable workforce. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize articles by Richard Judy & Carol D'Amico, Thomas Friedman, Alan Blinder, an article from the Economist and a publication on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to argue for how to best prepare for a working life in which change is a constant. I will argue that the future of work ensures less job security, mass exportation, and declining impersonal services, and that a college education/experience is the best way to overcome them.
I will employ ethos with my well introduced expert opinions and factual generalizations. I will employ pathos by stressing the complications the workforce will see in the future since future jobs should be a major concern of my audience's. Lastly, I will Employ Logos with the factual appeals of statistics and trends as well as present my synthesis a logical flow.My overall strategy for writing this paper is to introduce both sides of the argument then pick the side that supports a college education and then use expert synthesis in my body paragraphs to support my argument and conclude with the relevance this all has on the future generations.
RESEARCH PAPER: Statement of Purpose
This paper will be written with the intentions that the audience has previous basic knowledge of the topic, solitary confinement, and is well educated on national affairs and policy regarding how the U.S. incarceration system works. I am specifically writing to U.S. policy makers and legislatures calling for their attention to the flawed and unethical use of complete isolation in prison, but this may also be relevant to correctional and medical officials/experts since the sources I will use are pulled from those realms of expertise. The purpose of this paper is to use the expert opinions and research findings from published professionals in the various fields of medicine, psychology, justice, and statistics to argue for the need of policy reform concerning the practice of solitary confinement. I will stress the idea of incorporating BOTH sides of the argument (pro solitary confinement and against solitary confinement) and using the reasoning for the two to find a middle ground. The professional journal sources I will use will either support or disagree with the use of solitary confinement. I plan on the middle ground being the idea of policy reform, thus preserving the benefits and getting rid of the negatives of inmate isolation. The conflict of solitary confinement in the U.S. incarceration system deals with alot of conflict concerning its cost efficiency, safety, and psychological affects and those ideas will be explored in this research paper.
VISUAL/TEXTUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS: Statement of Purpose
For this writing project, I will continue with my theme that explores the incorporation of religion and the incorporation of science into the next generation as I analyze written texts and accompanying visuals. However, now my audience consists of my scholarly peers, and I am assuming they only have casual familiarity with the issue and the texts I am analyzing. Compared to my Photo Essay, this analysis will be more complex and sophisticated in light of a more academic reader, but will still focus on content (the posters) designed for a younger or more impressionable audience. Using four snapshots of a public ad campaign for Science World, I want to argue that these ads are successful in the company’s goal to “not only to increase awareness of our organization and introduce our "personality" to the community, but also to support our mission of engaging the general public with science in a way that is both thought-provoking and fun” by means of a subliminal appeal tugging on the audience’s curiosity and fear provoked by specific images and diction in the advertisements. This analysis will identify the strategies that these advertisements employ through their visual and written components. I want to then discuss how these work together and how they accomplish the company’s goal through a more complex way than Science World has stated in their ad campaign quoted above. I want my audience to agree with me on my analysis as well as open their eyes to not only what these advertisements do successfully, but also what they could have done better. I also want them to see and be convinced of my second argument, that subliminal curiosity and fear, not just being thought provoking and “fun,” is what makes these advertisements so successful.
ARGUMENT SYNTHESIS: Statement of Purpose
For this paper, my intended audience would be the college age student, specifically the more impressionable and less committed to a specific career choice student, like a freshman or sophomore. They need to be educated in order to understand certain big-idea concepts and interested in their future career. This paper will argue the necessity of a college education AND experience in terms of what it will provide future employees in the modern and unpredictable workforce. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize articles by Richard Judy & Carol D'Amico, Thomas Friedman, Alan Blinder, an article from the Economist and a publication on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to argue for how to best prepare for a working life in which change is a constant. I will argue that the future of work ensures less job security, mass exportation, and declining impersonal services, and that a college education/experience is the best way to overcome them.
I will employ ethos with my well introduced expert opinions and factual generalizations. I will employ pathos by stressing the complications the workforce will see in the future since future jobs should be a major concern of my audience's. Lastly, I will Employ Logos with the factual appeals of statistics and trends as well as present my synthesis a logical flow.My overall strategy for writing this paper is to introduce both sides of the argument then pick the side that supports a college education and then use expert synthesis in my body paragraphs to support my argument and conclude with the relevance this all has on the future generations.
RESEARCH PAPER: Statement of Purpose
This paper will be written with the intentions that the audience has previous basic knowledge of the topic, solitary confinement, and is well educated on national affairs and policy regarding how the U.S. incarceration system works. I am specifically writing to U.S. policy makers and legislatures calling for their attention to the flawed and unethical use of complete isolation in prison, but this may also be relevant to correctional and medical officials/experts since the sources I will use are pulled from those realms of expertise. The purpose of this paper is to use the expert opinions and research findings from published professionals in the various fields of medicine, psychology, justice, and statistics to argue for the need of policy reform concerning the practice of solitary confinement. I will stress the idea of incorporating BOTH sides of the argument (pro solitary confinement and against solitary confinement) and using the reasoning for the two to find a middle ground. The professional journal sources I will use will either support or disagree with the use of solitary confinement. I plan on the middle ground being the idea of policy reform, thus preserving the benefits and getting rid of the negatives of inmate isolation. The conflict of solitary confinement in the U.S. incarceration system deals with alot of conflict concerning its cost efficiency, safety, and psychological affects and those ideas will be explored in this research paper.
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