Advocacy Sources Analysis Worksheet
What did you learn from this exercise that would help you write your Advocacy Essay?
-I learned to pay more attention to the terms that I encounter in scholarly articles and that I should include them. I also learned that one solution from a perspective of a social science may work better if is accompany by another solution from a different field.This worksheet helped me narrow the solutions that I have researched. The questions were very helpful. I was able to analyze the scholarly articles even more in depth with the questions in mind. For the multimodal part the questions were very helpful as well because even though I have included multimodal in my previous drafts with the worksheet I was able to ask myself how this video/picture actually relate to the solution I am advocating.
How do you plan to refine your research in order to identify a promising solution?
-I will try to find more precise search terms that will help me find more articles that have tried to advocate a similar solution to mine or a solution already proposed in one part of the city that might also work for the overall country/place (like for example job laws).
How do you think about your audience differently after having completed this worksheet?
-I feel like the worksheet gave me a better understanding of the type of audience that I will be addressing in my advocacy project.
How do you think about yourself as an author differently after having completed this worksheet?
-After I have completed this worksheet I feel that I need find more precise information in regard in the solution that I want to advocate instead of only writing about the solution’s surface (in general). This worksheet has also helped me in use all the resources that I have already like the footnotes to find new terms that will lead me to the precise information that I am looking for.
How do you think differently now about using the language of a given field in order to reach a particular audience to solve a problem? Where and how do you plan to directly address your audience in your Advocacy essay?
-I will plan to directly address throughout my essay since I will advocate a solution in that field. I will use social science terms that will try to explain why the solution that I am advocating will result for beneficial also since I am trying to advocate the creation of new jobs I will find more information regarding that solution and will also try to use economic terms.
What are your plans for citing, quoting, using, and analyzing your sources to help you articulate a solution to the problem?
-Well I really want to go more in depth with analyzing the articles that I have about the previous solutions that have been proposed but have unfortunately not worked because I want to give my audience a better understanding of why the solution that I am advocating will work. I also believe that the more sources and information I input into my essay the more credible I will seem to be.
How will you refine your advocacy argument using what you have discovered here?
-Overall, I will focus more on the solution that I am trying to advocate and find more information about why it is more beneficial. In my previous drafts I have not focused on that so really understanding the type of solution is being advocate in the sources that I have found and in whose perspective it is from (social science, hard science, humanities, and fine arts).
How do you plan to revise the articulation of the solution you are advocating?
-Overall, I think that this worksheet helped me think of a different way of how to articulate my essay. For example, I know now that including the research terms that social science researcher use will help my paper appeal to them. Also, I feel like using terms associating with the type of solution that I will be advocating will help me understand the solution even more and the research that has been conducted to see whether or it has had a positive effect/will work or if it has a negative effect/will not work.