My Rhetorical Action Plan

In this post I will be discussing my audience through a series of 5 questions. I will then be discussing my genre and providing links to various examples. To conclude this post I will be discussing possible actions and reactions against my type of writing.

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Audience

• My audience probably does not know much about the topic of quantum consciousness but I am essentially using this topic as a jumping off point for talking about what caused this problem. They may be more people who know about the more quantum aspect of the controversy but other than that it is not assumed that they have any superior knowledge on the subject.
• My audience will generally be well educated and will most likely be interested in physics. In addition they will probably be into various forms of humor.
• I think the most effective form of arguing will be through logic and pathos. These two combined keep the reader interested as well as informed making it easy for people to absorb the argument.
• I think that graphs will not  be as useful as maybe more interesting pictures or funny cartoons because there are plenty of funny cartoons that touch on the cause and might be better at conveying the message than words.
• Hopefully my audience is listening to my argument because it points out flaws in the way that we approach science nowadays. I do not know what my argument would motivate my audience to do but I hope it encourages them to think about science as a process and collaboration not just a single person coming up with entire theories.

Genre

Opinion Pieces

Scary Politics

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• The function of this genre is to argue an authors point in a funny and exciting way
• This genre is generally used on Slate.com as a means of arguing a point for an author.
• This genre mainly utilizes logos and pathos to convey its message.
• This genre generally has some form of picture or a fun, exciting graphic of some kind that catches the readers attention.
• This genre generally has a more informal, funny tone to it and that is what I want to use. 

Straight up Facts

Social Stingers

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• The function of this genre is to convey lots of facts at once to the audience that it being considered.
• This genre is often used in more academic magazines as well as newspapers, online journals and online blogging.
• The main rhetorical appeal for this genre is logos due to the large amount of fact being presented and backed up scientific research.
• This genre generally sports a more logical graphic like graphs and charts and analytical pictures.
• This genre uses definitely an informal tone which is accompanied by a rather academic undertone.

Positive Reactions

The positive reactions that I want to come from my argument are:

1. General awareness of how science is take: giant collaboration.
2. Understanding that there needs to be more conversations between various fields of science and not just retained to one subject.
3. Attempting to find ways to solve the issue of cross-disciplinary communication.

Negative Reactions

Some of the expected negative reactions that might come from this argument are:

1. Disagreement that there needs to be more communication between various fields of science. 
2. An even more polarized scientific community where each branch keeps to itself.
3. Blaming one field in particular for the problems of miscommunication between the fields.