In my genre analysis, the popular audience is both the general public and the professionals who are inquiring about euthanasia. Specifically, the professionals who are investigating this topic are physicians, nurses, attorneys, judges, sociologists, and anthropologist to name a few. On the other hand, the general public includes everyone like the professionals, but more importantly or the larger audience being the non-professionals, such as students doing research, the terminally ill, suicidal or mentally ill persons. Both audiences are seeking one thing, information. Now information is a board title, but information entailing euthanasia’s history, current or historical court cases, and other people’s views on the topic. Also, possible patients may want to know where it is legal. And lastly, some of the professionals may want to know the possible reprimands that may come along with participating in assisted suicide. However, the general public may not want to hear opinions that go against their own ideas on euthanasia. In fact, they may go toward a media that is bias in nature according to their own ethics, but it is important to hear both sides. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, whether we agree with them or not. In order to adequately attract these audiences the information must be credible and accurate foremost, but the media must also not confusion the popular audience with a bunch of medical jargon. This is where it gets a little sticky because the popular audience will include the professionals like I said before. They would enjoy and appreciate the medical vocabulary because without it they may feel it is inadequate. There needs to be a happy medium in the use of language to appeal to both audiences. And finally, both perspectives and opinions should be presented in the sources in order for the audience to come to an intellectual resolution. It is only healthy to see both sides of an issue.
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ReplyDeleteI thought you did a fantastic job presenting your topic. I can't think of anything else I would suggest to add topic wise. The one thing that stood out for me was some of the text was hard to read because of the colors and font, for example the red text on the purple background in some places.
I thought you did a good job of stating who your target audience is and of clarifying what they want and what they need. Good job!
ReplyDeleteGreat job I really like the topic and what you had to say. I do have to agree with Lori though the text was kind of hard to make out with the color sections. Aslo I am not sure if that color scheme helps your topic. Other than that great job.
ReplyDeletevery good website! i liked the topic and I feel it would really appeal to your popular audience. However I do have to agree with the others, that the colors on the sections were hard to read with the background.
ReplyDeleteI thought your topic was well presented. I would like to know more about the fact that insurance companies are more willing to pay for meds that would end a life. Could you expand on this more with examples? I also find the nursing wallpaper distracting. I agree that your font choices were hard to read in places, particularly the red on purple. I would also say to spell check the page again when revising it. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI think all in all, your website was pretty well thought out.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you have seen satirical cartoons about this subject matter, as polarizing as it is, but if you include maybe one of those things, I think it would make your post very well rounded.
Great job!