The questions:
Which previous project from this semester do you plan to revise or remediate? ( The essay I’m providing )
What are some of the key changes you plan to make to take this topic in a new direction?
Identify how this new plan differs from the previous version, specifically identifying three to five new or significantly adjusted aspects of t project.
What kind of revision/remediation do you have planned?
Will this new project expand or develop the ideas of your previous project?
Will it tackle the idea from a different direction?
Will it reach a new audience or reach the audience in a new way?
What characteristics of the project will be most affected by these changes?
What aspects of the project do you anticipate will stay the same?
Describe your audience for this new project.
Are they friendly, hostile, or mixed?
What is their investment in the topic?
What do they have the power to do about this topic?
What concerns or questions might your audience have that you will need to address?
Discuss your purpose for this new project. What do you want the audience to do in response to your project?
How will you know your project was successful?
Why is this a worthwhile purpose to pursue?
Discuss your choice of medium, whether it is staying the same or changing.
Why have you selected this medium?
What rhetorical purpose does this medium serve?
Why is this medium the best way to reach your audience and/or to achieve your purpose?
Will your new project require any additional research?
What kind of research—primary, secondary, field research?
What will be the outcomes of this new research?
How does this new project represent a stronger choice of available means or a more fitting response?
What will make this project a more effective piece of rhetoric than the previous project was?
How will this new project better utilize your own resources and constraints?
What new resources and constraints will arise that you didn’t have to work with last time?
What new considerations do you need to keep in mind? What is your exigence for this project?
Why is it important that you take up this topic now?
What specific rhetorical and/or composition skills do you want to highlight in this project?
What skills that you’ve learned this semester do you want this project to best demonstrate?
The answers
The Implications of Smoking in Campus
1. Forming an advocacy group on smoking prevention and its effects in campus to sensitize students on the dangers and effects of smoking by requesting them to join in the fight against smoking chains or encouraging them to look out for smokers and report on their behavior to the group which will in turn report to the administration.
2. In this new plan, there will be more practical approach in dealing with the menace of smoking, it will involve;
• Formation of a strong advocacy group complete with all internal structures from the chair to the lowest member
• The plan will execute its policies by requesting for free membership of students in an effort to bring in more people on board
• For purposes of those who may wish to participate indirectly, the group will offer a suggestion box that students may drop information on smoking in campus, for further action by the group.
• The advocacy group will then work with the administration and relevant authorities in addressing this problem.
3. In the implementation of this new approach, it is expected that the project will have broader membership and publicity which will in turn not only facilitate its mission but offer several insights from the members. The basis of this approach is address smoking in campus head-on.
4. The mission and vision of mitigation of smoking on campus will remain the same but intensive lobbying for restrictions of smoking will be pursued.
5. Generally, the people expected to aid this project are students and the community at large who feel agitated by unconventional smoking. Since there are smokers within the group, it is important to note that they may try to challenge this movement and thereby creating hostility.
6. The group will focus on reassuring the students that it is better to have a safer environment than air polluted by smoking by pointing out to adverse effects it has even on non-smokers.
7. By pursuing a more direct participation of the students, the medium of communication will be shortened since it will be on a personal basis on designated days. The students will be requested to seek out more information in regards to smoking and rehabilitation.
8. The best approach to confronting a problem is by immediately trying to solve it after understanding it.
