The model that I decided to choose was a speech. I feel that by choosing a speech I can connect to a broad but yet very important audience. It can be dedicated to multiple people rather than one specific person. I feel like by doing a speech, many others will be able to hear even the ones who least expect a speech from my topic. The topic I will be writing about is coming from the perspective of someone who takes an interest in makeup as a teenager, who is myself. The audience that I would like to target are people like myself. When I first got interested in makeup it was when I was only in middle school, around the age of twelve or thirteen, the beginning of a teenager who was clueless and a bit disappointed in myself that I couldn’t do my makeup and felt that if I did do it properly, I would be considered beautiful with flawless skin. I believe that beauty influencers are responsible for not showing the truth as to what makeup really looks like on the skin because all my life I felt that I was doing something wrong, when in reality that’s just how it’s supposed to look. The only difference is the access to good lighting and being able to edit their pictures. Girls who took an interest in makeup at a young age such as myself felt that the whole world idolized this beauty standard that is shown in the media by influencers and that if you do your makeup you will have beautiful bone structure, or beautiful skin, or nice eyes and a sharp nose, when in reality, doing your makeup isn’t supposed to change anything about you, but accentuate your unique features. By addressing this topic and telling my audience that there is nothing wrong with the way you do your makeup but who is lying to you about how makeup actually looks, I feel like it will help with mental health.
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Professor: Dr. Ruth G. Garcia
Email: RGarcia@citytech.cuny.edu
Office hours: Monday 11:00am – 1:00pm
An advanced course in expository essay writing that includes a required library paper. This course further develops research and documentation skills (MLA style). Demanding literary and expository readings are assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing.
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Mary- I like this topic! It sounds like something you would find in Seventeen Magazine. That said, you have to imagine you’re writing your speech for a specific audience and not that could reach anyone. Also, you’re writing to people that are kind of like you but not exactly. Your discourse community is the teen that has experience with make up and the influencer videos and who now knows what is and isn’t real and who has developed their own view on make-up–one that is more natural. And your audience, it seems to me, is younger kids starting out on the journey to figuring out how make-up works and how to use it and who are not yet aware that the images influencer create are fake.
Also, you need to think about how you will describe/layout the problem and how you will convince your audience that it is a problem and that they need to change their approach.