"Remediate"

Being able to accurately transpose work that you have done within professional writing into a different format of media can really help you within goals that you are trying to reach. Trying to expand your audience, making someone or a group of people act on a particular subject, or just attempting to enhance your message are just some of the ways that transfering between types of media can be beneficial.

For a previous class we were given an assignment in which the objective was to present a non-profit organization with an improvement they could make to their facility or staff to better the company as a whole. This could range from topics such as helping them write clearer grant proposals in hopes of receiving more money for the foundation or perhaps getting the word out about how helpful a spefici organization is the the community in an effort to peak the interest of those looking to help, aka getting more volunteers. I chose to try and convince the Morgantown Boys & Girls Club to replace part of their parking lot with a playground area for the younger kids, creating a much more inviting and an exponentially safer environment for the kids. I completed this through just a straightforward powerpoint presentation, but it could have benefited also by being transfered into multiple other medias to help convey my points and purposes.

The new media I would like to experiment with would be a children's book to help get the attention of the children, who's opinion in turn means alot to the project as a whole. Without their desire to have a playground area, it would be almost a complete waste of funding from the Boys & Girls Club that could aid them in plenty of other facets.

The children's book would obviously not be as detailed or worded the same way as my original presentationed proposal, but would remain simple in that it's audience would range mostly from Kindergardners through Elementary 5th graders. Using simple sentences and also plenty of pictures of sad children without playground equipment, possibly getting hurt on concret parking hurts, and then happy children using safe playground equipment would be the bulk of the children's book. The actual visuals in the book would be the main tool in showing the kids the difference between their current setting and what they could have in the near future should they side with me. This appeal to the actual children rather than the volunteers would be another to reach the my first audience, through the aid and interest of the children. This linked combination of pieces of writing would expand my audience into a larger group, but also help me to obtain the help of one group to accurately convince my original, smaller audience (using the group of kids to help convince the group of volunteers of the neccessity of the equipment).