In Zuleyka Zevello’s “The March for Science Can’t Figure Out How to Handle Diversity” is an analysis of recent politically debated legislature such as offering abortion services, Trump’s desire to build a wall between Mexico and the US, and threatening the American Health Care Act that could have negative impacts to the scientific community. The origins of this march is so that scientists can come together and protest against actions that threaten their careers, stating that theses marchers are “non-political”. There is wide controversy on the claim that these marches are “non- political” because many posts on social media state that there is no such thing as a “non- political” protest. Not only does the march stress their non-political affiliations, they stress the importance of equality in the field of science because “science” does not care if you are black, white, Hispanic, transgender, etc. If you can contribute to augmenting the knowledge of those around you, you and your ideas should be accepted.
What I believe that this particular case speaks to issues relevant to this course is the importance of keeping one’s audience in mind when publicly supporting/ publicly writing for any cause they believe fair. If you lose track of who you are writing for/ who you are trying to persuade, you lose track of the purpose of your text; and in some cases, this can be fatal to the success of an organization. For example, the march for science focused on gathering active supporters on the topic that science does not see differences in race, gender, political affiliation, it only focuses on facts and data. Knowing who their audience was crucial to their organization’s success. I believe that this relates to my final project because the purpose of the organization we are working for has to be geared towards and understood and accepted by all people regardless of their race, gender, political views, etc. Shaping the approach of my final project to be understood by all audiences is something that I believe will increase the success of Gloria Gemma’s mission.
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Matt Carrano
4/9/2018 08:27:32 am
Luke you did a great job of summarizing the article and presenting the ways in which the science community is fighting back against the Trump administration by having a march. Also, you addressed how the march is not suppose to be a political protest, which I thought was an important fact to provide. I agree with you in the fact that the audience does play a vital role in this article. I think it a great idea for us to address all races in our audience when we write to the Gloria Gemma project. I think it will help with our success going forward as well. Overall this was a excellent blog post that was very informative.
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