What have you learned that has proved most useful to your composition process?

What has proved most useful to my composition process is creating outlines. It aids my writing process because it allows me to gather all my thoughts in an organized and shorter format. It makes the writing process easier to handle and the transition to an essay format smoother.

What is the relationship between your Research essay and your MMT? In your
response, be sure to compare the rhetorical situation of each.

My research-informed essay on how systemic racism affects the development of children was written as an informative essay discussing the different avenues in which our system as a society affects children of color and their development. I wrote this essay with the intended audience of scholars and people who are interested in understanding the issues brought up on a more complex level and want to enact change. My purpose for writing this was to bring awareness to the consistent disparities between races and how this affects children as well as how this issue is put into practice in our country on a deeper level. The information presented in the essay is relevant because it highlights good examples of systemic racism in America and how it affects the development of children and how it will affect our society both on a national and global level. For my Multi-Modal Translation I decided to create a slideshow presentation. I chose this because I wanted to target an audience with less awareness on the topics and issues discussed in the essay. I decided the slideshow would be best because it allowed me to have more creative freedom and use of imagery to make the information I was presenting easier to understand and digest. I picked the most important points from my original essay to include in order to get the message across easily. The purpose of creating the translation in that manner was because I believed that it was crucial to format the translation this way because it was unlikely that the general population was going to understand and retain the information that was presented in six pages worth of only words and no visual aids. The information presented in the slideshow presentation is relevant because it takes the most important facts of the issue I’m looking to enact change on and makes it really resonate with whoever is viewing it.

As you have continued your research work, how has your argument evolved?

As I have continued my research work, the points I wanted to touch on have changed a little bit. Systemic racism covers a vast range of topics throughout our society. It has been challenging having to narrow down the different topics to cover in my essay. I ended up covering how systemic racism affects child development through healthcare, education, and wealth disparities. I believe it is the three most important topics to cover and will help me get my points across in the most effective manner.