We’ve spent a while now thinking about who needs to hear your research (the ideal audience) and the best genre to present that research. Now we’re going to layer on, with an activity that will help you to identify places your writing could be published (or posted).
There are a whole range of different publication sites (e.g., an online magazine, like Teen Vogue, a forum like TED Talks, or The New York Times “Opinion” section). Take some time to explore possible publication forums for your particular genre piece (paying particular attention to the rhetorical situation, such as your intent / purpose, audience, message, etc). Then identify one particular publication forum you think is ideal for your Unit 3 piece.
Your goal, as always, is to be intentional & specific — target your efforts for particular project. If you’re writing a short story, look at a collection of short stories. If you’re writing an article for an online magazine, consider your audience and think about which is best and why (e.g., Teen Vogue is not the same as The Atlantic). If you’re writing an OpEd, look for the OpEd section of a major newspaper (such as The New York Times). If you’re making a YouTube video, look at a particular channel that produces similar content and reaches a similar audience. And so on.
*If you have a particular genre you want to write in, but you haven’t been able to find a forum where it would be published or posted, don’t immediately switch genres! Talk to me first &/or ask your classmates for help … I’m sure we can find something.
On your own, answer the following “Know Your Publication” questions for that publication or forum.
Know Your Publication Questions:
- What kinds of articles/ stories/ media (and ads and videos for that matter!) are on that site?
- What does that tell you about who they think their audience is? How do you draw that conclusion?
- How long are the pieces usually? (pages, words, minutes)
- What is the tone, usually? (e.g., funny, serious, casual)
- What kind of diction is usually used? (e.g., casual, formal, academic)
- How do they usually use evidence / support (such as data, quotations, interviews)?
- What can you tell us about their visual presentation? Is it all black and white text? Video with lots of graphics? A mix? Something else altogether?
- Do you think this would be a good publication or forum to reach your intended audience? Why or why not?
Share your answers with the class by leaving a comment on this post by 12pm (noon) on Friday, 11/18.
Make sure to include, at the beginning of your comment:
1) what your topic is
2) who your audience is
3) what your genre is
4) what publication/forum you’ve looked at (don’t forget to cite/link to it!)
Thanks all! Together we’ll review & discuss your content in this Class Discussion at the end of the week … can’t wait to see what you come up with here 🙂
1) what your topic is: The monetization of video games
2) who your audience is: Gamers
3) what your genre is: YouTube video
4) what publication/forum you’ve looked at:
YouTube tends to have videos of varying genres, stories, and topics. The video I intend to make falls closer to the video essay style of video. YouTube tends to have advertisements before and during the video, with a recommended feed next to the video.
I believe the video essayists in the videos have different audiences. The first video’s audience is probably a younger audience who is curious about ordinary things. The second video’s audience is probably gamers who are familiar with the survival video game genre.
The first video was under 10 minutes, the second video was shorter than 20 minutes.
The tone was casual but incorporates some humor in the script.
Casual diction is used.
The videos above use photo or video evidence.
It is a video with lots of graphics.
Yes. The videos are a generally fast paced video that get a large amount of information to the viewer. By incorporating humor and changing up the graphics, it helps to retain audience attention. As video games are generally a visual medium, it would probably be a good way of reaching my intended audience.
Thanks Jasper. I know you’re interested in a particular type of video (the “video essay”), so it’s important to narrow in on a forum for that. YouTube is a really huge, wide-ranging platform so the content there really varies. It will be helpful to explore (and study) a more specific part of that platform, such as a particular YouTube channel. Can you choose one and answer the questions in relation to that?
My topic is about education systems and how every education system is different in their own ways but in these education systems there are students and educators who have the power to talk or express ideas they feel need to be heard. My main audience is to students (high school or college students) but also educators because they play an important role in these systems. My genre is going to be a scene from a film and/or a ted talk video. I have a short clip from the film I want to use, “The freedom Writers” directed by Richard La Gravenese. This clip will be from YouTube and if you read some of the comments, they are students that give their thoughts and feelings of this film. I remember when I saw this film, I felt motivated and inspired it made me reflect on my life. This clip is very short just a few minutes and its language is casual. I wish to connect this clip with another video I found that is a ted talk. I hope I will be able to reach my audience with these videos and properly explain my message
my genre will be a magazine article and I think the videos I have found will be for my evidence.
Lizbeth, it’s a fascinating topic but as I’ve commented elsewhere on your proposal, we’re not doing additional research for the topics but instead, are now focused on presenting that material in a new genre (that you will create). For this particular Workshop, the goal is to explore a specific publication venue (for your chosen genre) and then answer the questions in response. You still need to do that, and I look forward to you adding that work in a reply here.
I apologize I interpret “on your own” like do these questions by for yourself.
my topic is Japanese and American education systems
my audience is to high school- college students
my genre is a magazine article
what publication/forum you’ve looked at (don’t forget to cite/link to it!)
What kinds of articles/ stories/ media (and ads and videos for that matter!) are on that site? The ted talk video doesn’t have many ads but for other videos that it recommends on the side there are other ted talk videos.
What does that tell you about who they think their audience is? How do you draw that conclusion? The ted talks seem to have information for educational purposes, so in this video they didn’t put an ad for that reason. This video was also presented like if the person was giving a lecture, with social media it has caused people to have a shorter attention span, so I think the older generation is the audience.
How long are the pieces usually? (pages, words, minutes) The video was about 9 minutes long.
What is the tone, usually? (e.g., funny, serious, casual) The video has a more serious tone that shifts to an inspirational or optimistic tone.
What kind of diction is usually used? (e.g., casual, formal, academic) The diction used was formal and academic.
How do they usually use evidence / support (such as data, quotations, interviews)? The video gives the audience examples of what he means as evidence to the audience.
What can you tell us about their visual presentation? Is it all black and white text? Video with lots of graphics? A mix? Something else altogether? The video is just a presentation/ lecture
Do you think this would be a good publication or forum to reach your intended audience? Why or why not?
Ted talks are very informative so I think it will be a good video that will reach my intended audience since my topic is also informative. I like how the video was also intended to inspire the audience this is something I also want to do.
1) what your topic is? Live in NJ but work in NYC
2) who your audience is? Single parents
3) what your genre is? Flyer or magazine
4) what publication/forum you’ve looked at (don’t forget to cite/link to it!) https://propertyclub.nyc/article/live-in-nj-work-in-nyc-taxes https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/pdf/pubs/tgi-ee/git3w.pdf . https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/fares.html https://new.mta.info/fares
These are different informational resources I found to get a better understanding of the topic, from blogs, magazines, news, and statistics to make sure to cover all aspects for accurate research.
The intention is to reach all types of audiences that need to change their lifestyle.
some are 3 pages, and others are more than 10 pages.
I can say have a combination of casual and serious.
The language they use is casual with the intention of educating the readers.
They basically go by people’s experiences and statistics.
A little bit of everything, good information in black and white, and also visual info.
Yes, it has specific and concrete information that will lead us to get the extra information that we will need.
You’ve done some good work here Indira, but it’s important for this particular Workshop to explore one particular publication venue / forum in detail (rather than three different one), so you can get a sense of it as a whole. Is there one that you can choose to explore more in-depth, and then respond to the questions?
I think that I will need all three to give a complete information to the audience. My idea is to summarize must important detail from each one to collect the right info that the people will need to get the sense of the publication (to help people to have a better option of living). If I pick only one will miss the main point of doing it.
My topic is food desert, my ideal audience is 6th to 9th graders. This will tie well with my genre which is comics. Since I’ve never created a comic book, I needed to do some research about it. I came across the article “7 Tips for Writing Your First Comic Book” and some examples of comics pages itself. I wanted to remember what they look like. Comic books tend to draw attention to kids, therefore I know my comic might be able to reach my target audience. I know that almost everyone has access to a smartphone, computer, laptop, internet, google etc…which means that my comic does not have to be printed out, I can easily be published online. I found a site that specializes in comics and anybody can create their own and publish it there. The website is called “globalComics”. I already signed up for it and started reading a comic called “facing the sun” . It is really interesting the graphics make it more intense, it makes me curious on what the next graphic will look like. I found out that comics are usually 1-25 pages long although they are usually chapters to it.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/tips-for-writing-your-first-comic-book
https://globalcomix.com/publish?utm_medium=googleAds&utm_source=Google&utm_campaign=intl-jul-20&utm_term=dynamicAds&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1NebBhDDARIsAANiDD0rskQ9dDaP0XEY9iK65h2pL5JwCS_iuNZy5FXuiINJC2OwO8I86mYaAk-WEALw_wcB
Doriani, this is a good start, but you still need to answer all of the “Know Your Presentation” questions about your chosen publication venue, “globalComics.”
1) what your topic is about does therapy really work especially for those with mental illness
2) who your audience is people who have a mental illness who don’t know if therapy is a good treatment for them
3) what your genre is A video which you can find on YouTube
4) https://youtu.be/fZ_WoP0gWmw
https://youtu.be/Rtw8_EZvXXg
What kinds of articles/ stories/ media (and ads and videos for that matter!) are on that site? YouTube is a very big platform for people to get videos out there that have clear messages on YouTube you can find various videos on different topics even TEDTalks you can find on YouTube.The video has advertisements like ads before the video starts and sometimes even during and once you finish the video it gives you an option to watch another video similar to the one that you’ve already watched for more information.
How long are the pieces usually? (pages, words, minutes)
so the first video was about four minutes and the second video is about six minutes long.
What is the tone, usually? (e.g., funny, serious, casual) The tone for both is usually casual and serious sense they were trying to get the point across on a serious matter about that therapist and health therapist can make it worse for the individual.
yes the videos for me would be a good publication or form to reach your audience if someone doesn’t feel like reading an article or a blog and they’re more of a visual learner and would rather watch a video these two are great informative videos that can summarize what an article would say and help the individuals.
YouTube is a really huge, wide-ranging platform so the content there really varies. It will be helpful to explore (and study) a more specific part of that platform, such as a particular YouTube channel. Can you choose one and answer the questions in relation to that?
Thanks to those who have already completed this work (if you haven’t done so already, please make sure to comment ASAP!).
We’ll keep this Class Discussion open so folks can read through / comment on one another’s work (to see what others have been exploring), and make additional revisions as need — please see my individual comments for guidance. Next week, we’ll revisit this work along with particular texts within these genres & publication venues.