PB3A
Abortion
is a very heavy topic than can affect many people’s lives. Although it is a big topic of debate, it is
very relevant in today’s society. When
studying the scholarly article, “ Are all Abortions equal? Should there be
Exceptions to the Criminalization of abortion for Rape and Incest?” I noticed
certain moves the author used in order to affect his audience, who is most
likely well educated. When analyzing the
scholarly article to find out what makes it appealing to a highly educated
audience, I contemplated how it could be changed to reach out to younger, and
older audiences.
The scholarly article, “ Are all Abortions
equal? Should there be Exceptions to the Criminalization of abortion for Rape
and Incest?” uses very high-level language that can sometimes be hard to
understand. For example the author
writes, “I will be unable to fully consider the tort analogy in this
constrained space but instead offer a few points why I disagree: first, many of
the reasons why tort law may want to limit emotional distress injuries strike
me as less applicable here.” This statement has a big vocabulary and would probably
not do too well if trying to reach a young audience. There are several ways in which this article
could be changed to meet a younger audience.
First of all, to reach an audience of young adults, the author should
use information that is relevant to them.
Adding in some statistics such as, the number of teens getting abortions,
or sexual assault rates in high schools might intrigue the reader because of
the relevance to their own life. Lowering
the vocabulary to a level they understand would also help them be more
interested. One more way to make this
article more appealing to a younger audience would be to make it shorter. The article now is sixteen pages with two
full columns on each page, not including the references. Even if the article was easier to understand,
I don’t believe a young teenager would be willing to continue reading that long
of an article.
Considering how this scholarly
article can be changed to fit a younger audience, we must now consider how it
can reach an older audience. Depending
on whether the older audience is well educated or not would determine the high-vocabulary
level. One way I believe changing this
article to reach an elderly audience would be to once again state how it is
relevant to them. They may believe this
topic is no longer than large of an issue to them, but giving some statistics
of how much rape/assault happens in each state, or several cities could be a
wake up call to how much these things are happening every day. With data like that, the older audience is
certain to be more intrigued and willing to educate themselves in order to help
stop it. One more way this article could
be changed in order to appeal to an older audience would be to list the risks
of this problem in the future, if it doesn’t stop. This information would most likely appeal to
older people because they have more capability of taking action, or donating
money more than a younger or teen audience.
Abortion is quite a big topic. Normally, the authors of scholarly articles like to use many topic-specific words. For common people, these high-level language can be transformed to some simple words. I like you mention than you will add some shocking statistics which are relevant to the younger generation or the old. I think it will work well for them because people always care about themselves. If the topic has nothing to do with someone, he will not pay attention to it. I agree with you that making it shorter will be more attractive to a young audience. Maybe some professional clinical information, which are hard for common people to understand, can be abandoned. In addition, I think you need to choose two different genres specifically, such as newspaper or magazine article , instead of just stating how to translate the scholarly piece to fit a younger or older audience.
ReplyDeleteAbortion is indeed a very controversial topic.
ReplyDeleteIt is great you identified the changed in approach you would have to make when targeting a different audience. I agree the most definite convention we’d have to alter from a scholarly article to a different audience would be the vocabulary/diction.
Its also great that you’d be using rhetorical strategies to appeal to the younger audience with statistics. That definitely would add relevance and help them be more interested.
It might be helpful to be more specific in your audiences though instead of generalizing a younger/ older audience! (I struggled with this too) How young is young/ how old is old?
Also in your remixed genres would you be taking a stand as in “Are all Abortions equal? Should there be Exceptions to the Criminalization of abortion for Rape and Incest?”
If so, would your works be a persuasive text rather than just a informational one?