In the passage “The March for Science Can’t Figure Out How to Handle Diversity”, author Zuleyka Zevello conveys the message that Trump’s Administration is placing a variety of restrictions on the field of scientific research and at the same time, jeopardizing science as we know it. With presidential moves such as building a wall to separate the US and Mexico, (a decision that will prevent advancement in international science programs), and even the threat to the American Health-Care act, it seems that the only thing President Trump values is cutting costs rather than show and respect to scientific research. With motivation and desire to act, the March for Science emerged as it was inspired by the impact of the women’s march, but also was sparked due to social media conversations (Zevello, 2). By creating social media accounts and noticing the rapid growth of supporters and flowers, the organization was able to generated over 300 marches to occur in various cities around the world.
One way in which I was able to draw a comparison between this case and what we’ve been discussing through this class is through vocabulary terms. One term is specific that we discussed through this course happens to be a discourse community, which can be defined as a group of individuals in a social group who not only share similar goals, but also have specialized language/customs to distinguish themselves from other groups. One way in which I believe we can consider the people part of the march as their own discourse community is by the way they diversify themselves. First off, they prime themselves off of three main components, which are equity, access and inclusion, as their number one goal is to make everyone feel valued, heard and included. With these specific variables defining what their special group is and what they stand for, I believe we can consider them their own discourse. One way in which I can relate this to our final projects is to pay close attention to importance of identifying your specific/target audience, and realizing that your goal is to convey/persuade your main point. At times, I felt that Zevello lost train of his influential aspect in this article and found himself telling more of a factual story; which is ok, but in terms of our final project, we need our community partners to trust us and buy into what we have researched.
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August Colburn
4/9/2018 10:01:22 am
Hey Nick, I want to start off by saying you once again give a nice introduction to the information you are speaking about. You focused on the positive aspects of the march, which is different from mine, but I liked seeing how you viewed this a bit differently. I agree that this situation relates to discourse community. They created their own section of thought to share their beliefs with each other and express what they support. I also agree that it is particularly important to know the target audience (that is what my post was mostly about). Great thought on the subject!
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