The issue i will research for my informative piece will be safe sex on college campuses. The two audience segments that i will target for my writing will be high school students that will soon be entering colleges and students already enrolled at colleges and universities. Safe sex on college campuses will or will be directly affecting these two audience groups so that is why i chose them as my target audiences. The involvement of these two audience segments will help propel the issue through cycle of written publicity because they will able to provide first hand insights and experiences about the issue and provide information. I will do a more thorough analysis of college students due to the fact that the research will be about safe sex on college campuses. The demographics, interests, values, assumptions and knowledge base will all start off around the University of Rhode Island. Though i can not identify all aspects of this audience group i am aware that they all have a thirst for knowledge and have goals as they graduated high school and moved on to a higher education. The profile of this audience group suggest that the content of the article i will write will be based on how college students are faced with the dilemma of safe sex and how easy it is for them to practice this act. A local publication that will give me access to my audience would be URI's paper, the 5 cent cigar as well as the Narragansett Times newspaper which is available to all students that attend URI as most students that live off campus live in the town of Narragansett.
A few things that i could use some help or advice on would probably be my research for this project. If anyone could provide some insight to any good websites or references that will provide really great research for this project so that it doesn't seem too overdone or cliche, that would be great. I know that students that i interview and survey on campus will provide answers that coincide with the University of Rhode Island's students, that hopefully mirror most other colleges campuses and universities. Any advice on how to make this project A+ material would be fantastic! Thanks so much!
Rachel, I can tell your very focused on your topic and with the right sources you can make this one kickass topic. I think this topic is very important and meaningful to many cuz lets face it, no one wants to get prego in highschool, or college. Id start with searching for doctor articles on google scholars on it. The better your sources, the more convinceing your article will be
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a very good topic. It provides a good hook to keep the reader entertained because it closely relates to what is happening to us all at some extent as college students. You had mentioned about researching certain information to better help you compile information. The only question I had was what direction are you planning to go with it, a more informed approach like a lecture or otherwise? My advice would be to try and keep it less like a "High School" lecture and more relaxed for the people reading it. All in all I think that this is a very good topic and that you should have no problem keeping your readers entertained.
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