“Showboat” shows new lights about the changing new morning about a new light about a new light to seive American attitudes of racism. Now that you have seen “Showboat,” what to you think about this?
Justice and Racial Equality Foundation
Audiences:
Our group is focusing on justice in America and we would like to inform our audience about Race and Equality. As a class, we have decided that our targeted audience should be the residents of New York City since everyone in the class lives in the city.
Age:
As a group, we are targeting young generations because they are the ones who can make changes, bring changes by educating themselves, their families, relatives and communities. Also, as changes take time they would be in the best position to benefit.
Language:
Our neighborhoods are diverse. People speak many different languages including English. As a group, we decided to make English as a primary language since we will have interpretation in every language. That way it would be convenient for everyone.
Technology
Mostly everyone has access to technology especially young people since they all use smartphones and are the most tech savvy. We will make flyers for those who do not have access to technology. Other than that we would like to provide information via social media.
Goal:
Our group will mainly focus on the racial justice in the United States. Every race and ethnicity should have equal rights and opportunities in every aspect. Our main goal would explore not only racial justice, but also would create a dialogue on what racial justice should be. Any change takes time and there is no better time than now based on current events.
Challenge
During this period of protest and looting people’s minds are focused on showing their dissatisfaction on how racial issues have been handled in the USA. The direct consequences of this frustration are looting, violence and attack on law enforcement agents. Therefore, we are approaching an audience which is already irritated. Consequently, we must carefully consider this tense atmosphere to address our audiences and receive reciprocal feedback from them without creating any type of annoyance.
Chris Gyasi
Md Sakib
Mohamed Sawadogo
Team BLM (Project proposal)
Project Planning
Company Name: BLM (Black Lives Matter)
Company Description: Our company (BLM) which is an online store where our audience will able to order customizable items with black lives matter design/art. The main purpose of this company is to inform the audience about Police Brutality and Racism.
Mission Statement: Our mission is to become The Make Engine to give people the power to make anything imaginable. Looking through our marketplace, you’ll find Designers selling their art, Makers showcasing their customizable products, and create-your-own products just waiting for You.
Audience: As a Group, our target audience is New York City residents (mostly George Floyd’s Protesters in Queens). Most of our research will be about Police violence and racial discrimination. Due to George Floyd’s death brought us to retain more about racism and injustice on African American people.
Age group: We are mostly targeting young black community, because they are mostly victims of violence and racial discrimination by policies. As a result, we want to inform them as early as possible, so they don’t become a victim of police Brutality.
Language: As most of our audience speak more than one language such as Bengali, Spanish, Hindi, and Urdu. It very difficult for people to get the information they need. We will try to use translators or interpreters for people who have a hard time understanding civic law.
Technological Background: We decided to create a website, blog posts, and Forum for our audience.
Role/Task:
Research specialist: Tanvir Patwary, Mardiya Idrissou, Ismil Hossain, Mosammat Perven
Writer/ Editor: Mosammat Perven
Website designer: Tanvir Patwary
Goal: Our main goal is to promote justice by selling various products on our website. In order to bring specific audience attention. First, we will create Blog posts where we will post information weekly about racial inequality in justice systems. Second, we will create a Forum, where our audience will able to share their thoughts about any issue. They will able to post comments, pictures, and videos as social medias impact on cases of Police Brutality. Finally, we will create an online shop where our audience will able to order customizable items with black lives matter design/art.
Challenge: Most of our challenges will be to reach people of all ages, as long as they know how to read and write. For the future, we want teenagers to adopt this mentality from their young age, that justice for all is necessary regardless of their race, color, or religion. For now, our main target will be educating adults about black lives matter, so they can help end the injustice to black lives.
Take It Slowly and Listen to Each Other
Don’t take the lead. Not until you are quite ready.
Don’t smash your cohorts. Not unless you can make them better.
The way that most technological organizations suceed is through letting each involved person prove themselves. When someone starts to take command and to tell others what to do, the group starts to fall apart.
Don’t take command but listen to what others are saying. Always spend line on what they are expounding.
Which, by the way, is the main methodology to technical writing. You need to do it from the start.
MAY Team
Audience: As a class, We are aiming at new york city residents in regards to coronavirus. Due to coronavirus cruel invasion, new yorkers are required to follow instruction and take immediate action in their response to future viruses before the situation deteriorates.
Ages: Of course our information tends to help everyone but we are mostly targeting parents, and elders who don’t spend as much time on social media and the internet as younglings. Parents in their response will inform their children in a way that makes them fully understand the situation.
Language: As most of our audience speak English and Spanish, our group decided to use English and Spanish languages to inform our audience about coronavirus as well as future viruses.
Technological Background: With the assumption that not everyone has access to the internet, we will be providing flyers in both English and Spanish for our audience thus we guarantee that our information is delivered to everyone.
Goal: Our group will focus on the current coronavirus situation as well as potential similar viruses in the future. We will inform our audience on preparedness by illustrating key points of virus prevention, as well as health and financial support. These points are to help everyone find support and seek help from nearby social communities and local government, as well as virus prevention in the second wave of COVID-19 and future cases. Our goal is to encourage the audience to take immediate action in their response to future dilemmas before the situation deteriorates.
Mazen Alquaiti
Alpha Barry
Yicheng Wang
Ervin Zhao
Audience
SSCJ Team Researcher
Audience:
As a class, our target audience are the residents of New York City. NYC has been the epicenter for the spread of the virus and New Yorkers can use all the information they can get.
Because of how highly contagious this virus is, staying six feet apart from other people are advised. But sometimes it’s very difficult to avoid the inevitable in very crowded neighborhoods such as Corona, Jackson Heights, and Elmhurst, the epicenter of the virus. Many hispanics live in these areas, many who don’t know how to read and write English. The people in these areas should be able to easily obtain information they need to protect their families and themselves.
To target the Hispanic community in these neighborhoods, we would have to communicate with them in Spanish. About half of the population in Jackson Heights alone, are foreign born and English is not their native language. Because of this language barrier, it makes it difficult for many of these people to get the information they need to survive.
According to reports from 2015, 76% of Hispanic adults had a presence on social media. As such we believe that by creating a social media campaign that is highly concise and informative of what the coronavirus is and it’s history we can better communicate to this population about the ongoing crisis. Our hope is to inform the community better in the event of a second wave and keep them up to date on the facts of the virus.
Because older-aged Hispanics are most at risk, we would like to make sure the necessary information reaches them first. But many of these people live with their families who can potentially spread the virus to them. And these families include children. These neighborhoods are made up of immigrant families whose language is only Spanish. Because of this, we hope our information reaches kids too, in order to spread information to their older family members. They would be provided with the information they need not only inform themselves of what the nation is dealing with, but what they can do to help stop the spread to their family members.
This pandemic affects everyone, no matter what their income might be. We want information to be spread to as many of the Spanish-speaking community as possible, to ensure they have the knowledge and safety procedures to survive this virus.
Our Goal/ Mission statement
Our goal is to find out what, where, when, and how did this virus originate and how we can stop it. By gathering the necessary information, we can relay it to the residents living in New York on how to avoid getting the virus in the first place and curing the ones who do. Educating them where the virus started, what causes the virus, when or how long the virus surfaced will help us prepare for eradicating it from our daily lives. This research is necessary in getting to the root cause of this pandemic and find out how to cure it. SSCJ Team Researchers is a New York based company, which involves testing, in depth analysis behind the science behind PhRMA’s testing laboratory.
Christopher Bello
Sadeek Brown
Joel Tejada
Samay Shrestha
Technical Writing is a Professional Skill
No good technical writer works alone. There are reasons for this:
- The audience of technical writing is broad and needs to be defined through the input of differing personalities and experiences;
- The source of technical writing is broad and is defined through the needs of the corporate structure, taking into account the needs of various departments;
- The material of technical writing is broad and is defined through the experience of many different employees in a variety of departments.
In other words, one can have all of the skills of a technical writer and still be a bad technical writer if one does not take the breadth of audience, source and material into account. Given that no one person can gain that breadth on their own, a good techncal writer always works with arms open to the ideas and contributions of others.
It sometimes takes longer to work with others but the results are always worth it.
In school, much of the work you do is based on yourself alone and not so much on the activity of the group. This can be unfortunate when you graduate and find yourself in an environment where it is the needs of the group–and not of the individual–that are going to take precedence. And this is the reason we work, in this class, in a manner of the workplace and not of the classroom.
I learned the basis for this Challenge at Google this last fall, taking it from work I had been involved in for more than a decade. The people involved in it today are the people who are going to be your bosses or who are going to have attitudes like your bosses.
Because technical writing is alway group work, we envision it as a means, also, of getting students to learn to work together in a professional manner.
Do that here so that you can do it successfully in your jobs.
Team: PPP Coordinators
06/10/2020
Audience:
As a class, our target audience are New York residents (particularly those from NYC). Most of our information and research will be relevant specifically for the city/state that we live in.
As a group (The PPP Coordinators), we decided on the following:
Age group: Although our information intends to be for everyone, we recommend our readers to be 13 years of age or older. Children might misconstrue what they read on the internet. Therefore, parents are encouraged to have the appropriate conversation with their kids.
Understanding: We will be operating under the assumption that the audience has little to no basic knowledge about the coronavirus. The goal of the challenge is to educate those who does not understand the severity of the pandemic and, hopefully, to motivate them to take precautionary measures against the disease.
Language: NYC is a melting pot. The city houses diversity from every spectrum of the rainbow. But it is impossible to cater to every ethnic groups. We recognize that not everyone speaks English, but English will be the primary language used in this project. However, links, translations, and drawing will be provided, if possible, for a more inclusive audience.
Technological Background: We are distributing information mostly on a digital platform. As a group, we decided to create a website with downloadable contents such as PowerPoint slides, pdf, and electronic pamphlet. Therefore, our audience are expected to have basic understanding on how to navigate the internet.
Income: The COVID-19 affects everyone’s lives. But we want to supplement our work with links to federal/state support for the low-income families or anyone struggling financially due to the state lock-down. We believe financial assistance helps to stop the bleeding before the economy recovers.
Team Members and his respective roles
Gen Li: Editor in Chief
Jun Liu: Website Manager
Asif Nabi: Visual Organizer
Miraz Nabi: Research Specialist
Challenge:
For the technical writing coronavirus challenge, our group will focus primarily on public health strategies to hinder the spread of coronavirus on a local scale (N YC). Also, we plan to provide information on government (federal and state) support and services. We came up with the slogan for our PowerPoint and electronic pamphlet called: Protection, Perspective, and Prevention. Protection: the goal is to educate everyone with facts (like symptoms) from reliable sources on the coronavirus and teach precautionary tips on reducing the risk of exposure. Perspective: many people have relaxed their view on the severity of the pandemic, some learned from certain media outlets that coronavirus is just another flu, and some people simply do not care about the wellbeing of others. We aim to change their perspectives on those matters. Lastly, prevention: we will proactively address issues that might lead people to contaminate others in a public space. As a long-term goal, we hope to prevent the virus from proliferating into a massive second wave by controlling the spread within our city.
Technical Writing Challenge
Now that you have an idea of who your audience is, it is time to really start on the Challenge. As a group (you can start this is smaller groups), decide just what you need to inform your audience of. Is it just coronavirus? Or should there be questions of justice involved? What about future viruses? Should people be prepared and, if so, just how? What are the best means of informing your audience?
Work in small groups but keep the entire class informed of what you are doing.
And, if you have not, make sure that everyone is keeping an adequate log/journal. The best way to do this is through a spreadsheet that all agree to use. Discuss that as well.
1-2-4-All, Part III
My, but you folks are fast!
Post your group-of-four descriptions of what is outside your window in the comments here.
Once that is done, you can start circulating among yourselves a description of the audience the classs should be reaching with its coronavirus (and, possibly, more) challenge. You need to focus on a number of things. First, language. You are working in English for this class but not everyone you are trying to reach will be skilled in English. Will you be able to have drawings or some other things that can help people who speak other languages? Can you (though we won’t do it here) explain which languages it is critical the work be translated into? Second, education. You will have to address your audience in ways that everyone can understand but without ‘talking down’ to anyone. Third, income. Some people, for example, can’t afford to shelter at home or pay before delivery services. Fourth, family. There are different things that need to be done considering the compositions of families. Those with young kids, for example, had different needs than those with older grandparents. Fifth, technological access. Some people don’t have the same level of access as others.
There are other aspects of your audience that you might want to delineate. Remember, knowing your audience is the single most important step in Technical Writing–in any writing–and the one thing that should be examined most carefully.
Once you all together think you have a strong and useful description of your audience (the New Yorkers you live among), you can organize it based on the points I list or others and post it here. Just remember: in your log/journals, keep track of the work you have done on it and make sure to mention those whose work you appreciated the most (and don’t complain about anyone; only mention those who do well).
