Reflective Piece

When doing a project like this blog we had to setup and include certain pieces to match a criteria, it was all new to me and I wasn’t really sure what to expect for an outcome. So I did my best to explain the rhetorical choices that went through my head in creating this final project.

First off, I had to choose an audience that I wanted this gear towards; someone that can hopefully relate to the different artifacts I chosen, or at the very least understand what I was discussing. So with that being said, the readability plays a huge role in making my project more effective. Although I didn’t want a super formal project, I decided to gear this towards a group of scholarly individuals, like maybe high school or early college level students. The reason being is so that I can focus on the content of my project, rather than trying to make it stand out more and look all pretty for whomever it may come across.

The mediums that I used in creating my project were the papers we wrote in class, including a condensed version of my Identity Narrative, a critical review of the narrative I discussed out of Names, and a response letter to Zak Ebrahim, a peace activist who gave a speech at a TED convention in 2014. I believe all of these mediums can correlate with one another because they all have been built around the same central idea with racism. I had the opportunity to see racism from outside perspectives, as well as sharing my own story in which I got to experience it. What was most intriguing was putting the mediums all together to show the relation they all shared.

We had a couple of options in how we wanted to tie it all together, in which I decided to do a blog. I went with a blog for my final project because I was already somewhat familiar with Blogger.com a website used for publishing and linking blogs together by one URL. The nice thing about Blogger is that you as the creator, are able to arrange the information shared pretty much any way you’d like. As far as the template all the blogs will be shared on, to the different font choices and typestyles to even including pictures, videos and links to emphasize an idea. They are all great tools that are available in every blog post that makes the creativity endless.

With that being said, I have utilized some of the different rhetorical choices that have been taught to us in class by creating a final project in which I revised and included final pieces of work that are based on the central theme of racism, in hopes to someday change the perception on how people view others. Everyone has their own unique story to tell; so don’t be afraid to share it with the world, because we just may never know the result of the outcome! J