Overview

While you have engaged with thisissue for the last two projects and conducted research that increasesyour knowledge about this issue, this project asks that you keep aparticular audience in mind as you revisit your research findings,explore new research, and think about how to successfully approach theplanning and writing of your multimodal argument. Not only do you needto convince this audience that your argument has merit, but you wantthem to demonstrate that they are sufficiently invested so as to agreewith your call to action. The challenging component is that thisaudience is not interested in your issue. They are a non-engagedstakeholder, defined as a person (or group of people) who is uninvolved,unconcerned, or not invested in an issue or in taking action on thatissue. But you, as someone who is invested in the topic, are willing toinvest your time and effort in convincing this audience that yourargument and call to action have merit. This Part 1 assignment is meantto help guide your efforts and make good use of your time.

Skills & Strategies

This Part 1 assignment will help you to

• build on previous skills and strategies learned in Projects 1 & 2
• identify anon-engaged stakeholder who is uninvolved, unconcerned, uninterested,or not invested in the issue you have been researching or in takingaction on that issue
• applyeffective strategies that advance your information literacy, criticalthinking, reading, planning, drafting, and organizational skills
• make connections, gain perspective, and acquire new knowledge

Description

Begin by selecting a non-engagedstakeholder who is uninvolved, unconcerned, uninterested, or notinvested in the issue you have been researching or in taking action onthat issue. In constructing your multimodal argument with thisnon-engaged stakeholder as your audience, start thinking about how youwill educate, engage, and empower this non-engaged stakeholder to agreewith your call to action. You will draw on the credible sources of theresearch you conducted in the past two projects. Respond to thefollowing guiding questions with this research handy and in mind. Note:these questions map onto your course rubric to guide your essaydevelopment.

Please copy and paste the questionsbelow or download them into a Word document and answer each questionfully. To answer each question fully, you will need to provide at leastthree complete sentences per question and have answered the entirety ofthe question(s). Upload your list of answers as a worksheet to MyReviewers by the due date.

Questions

1. Why is theissue that you have been researching important and timely? What kind ofproblem does this issue create? Name the issue, and drawing from yourprevious research, provide some context as to its background, andbriefly note what you already know about this issue.
2. Whatpersons or organizations would be (or are currently) interested in thisissue? Why? Who would not be interested in this issue. Why not?
3. What doyou know about the non-engaged stakeholder(s)? If you have a tangibleperson or group of people in mind, provide information and describetheir non-engagement as best as you can. If you have a more genericsense of a non-engaged stakeholder, how would you define whatcharacterizes this person or group of people who will be the audiencethat you persuade?
4. What kinds of questions do you anticipate your audience asking?
5. Yourmultimodal argument has a combination of intended purposes: to educate,engage, and empower. What kind of information do you need to provide toeducate the non-engaged stakeholder? Give at least 3 examples. Why doyou need this information?
6. Appealingto an audience’s sense of reason and logic with facts, examples,statistics, models is an effective way to educate your audience, butwhat do you think is the most convincing evidence you could provide thatmight persuade the non-engaged stakeholder that your argument hasmerit? Name at least 3 points.
7. What doyou see as possible points of resistance in convincing your audience ofthe value in engaging in your issue? How will you overcome and refutethis resistance without offending your audience?
8. What frameof mind do you want to put your audience in to appeal to their sense ofemotion? How might you create an emotional response to your plea tohave your audience take on your cause?
9. Why shouldyour audience believe in you? What ethos do you bring to the argument?How might you build on the credibility, reputation, or trustworthinessof others who make similar arguments? Think about how your audiencecould identify with your appeals to ethos. Draw from your research forsome examples.
10. What kindof action do you think would advance your cause or present a reasonablesolution to the problem your issue creates? What are the steps to takingthis action? How will you incentivize your audience to agree with thisaction? What obstacles still stand in your way, and what can you do toremove them?
11. What tonedo you think would be most effective in convincing your non-engagedstakeholder to come around to your way of thinking? Why do you thinkthis tone will be effective, and how will you create this tone?
12. Yourproject 3 assignment requires 3 new sources you have not previouslyused, based on your preliminary responses to these questions, in whatdirection should your expanded research take you? Specifically, in whatareas do you need more evidence to deliver an effective multimodalargument?

Helpful Hint

These questions should be used tosuccessfully compose your Project 3 Intermediate and Final Drafts ofyour Multimodal Argument. Please consider helping your future self bythoroughly responding to these questions to generate substantial contentto take into the future construction of the Project 3 components.

My topic is Global Warming

Read all the instruction carefully.

Project 1 and Project 2 are attached, read them to know my stakeholders.

Use scholarly sources