Production Schedule

      To tackle a large project it's important to have a plan on how to schedule time and what needs to be done.

Opening:

• Needs to be done: Writing it
• Where: Anywhere, but best somewhere I can focus and have some silence
• When: Since it's an introduction it could be written at the beginning, however I've heard that ultimately it's best to write an introduction once you've finished with everything else. Saturday
• Resources: Computer
• Completed:
• Changes: 

Body Sections:

• Needs to be done: Research for each section, making sure I have the necessary citations for any sort of arguments I want to make, then I can begin writing 
• Where: Somewhere I can focus, Not the dorm room at 2 am
• When: Soooner rather than later Hopefully by friday I will be writing this 
• Resources: Computer, Internet for research
• Completed:
• Changes: 

Closing Sections:

• Needs to be done: Citations made, deciding on a way to perfectly wrap up the subject in an emotional appeal. Writing it
• Where: Anywhere, easiest part of the writing, sometimes best talking with people about it 
• When: Once everything else has been done, or everything bu the intro perhaps, Saturday as well
• Resources: Internet for citations, computer
• Completed:
• Changes: 

Content Outline

        It's important to outline a project before beginning, even if you don't stick to the project outline completely it gives you a good idea for how you want to go about the project as well as structuring arguments or what research you need to do.

Opening:
       Explanation of what the project is about. Discussion  of what exactly pronouns are and why using a gender neutral one may be important to our society, explain why want to use they as the third person gender neutral singular pronoun. Sections want to discuss; choices of gender neutral pronouns that have been suggested and put out, why they may be most seamlessly accepted. How a gender neutral pronoun is completely acceptable and grammatically correct in English. Make a concession paragraph for counter arguments.

Body Sections:

1. Why using they is a good choice for gender neutral singular pronoun
• Other options promoted
• Shows how there is most definitely a need for a gender neutral pronoun, as well as a desire for one among people (Yo! Mama)
• Use of 'they' already common
• We already use the pronoun for people all the time, and yet people are against it once presented in the context of a specific person 
2. 'They' is Grammatical
• Used in everyday speech
• Shows again the holdups against it don't really have to do with grammar
• Accepted by Academics 
• It isn't just something that people on the internet or the "millennials" solely use. It is a large part of speech in all spheres
• Examples in Grammar
• Experiment by Foertsch and Gernsbacher, how don't notice the changes
3. Concessions
• Arguments against 'they' pronoun
• Shows that this is not a one sided argument and has actual fleshed out details 

Closing Sections:

           To close the essay I'm sure I'll connect it all back to the importance of a need for a gender neutral pronoun, using some emotional appeals, how everyone has a right to be addressed in the gender they relate to and identify as. 

Rhetorical Analysis of Project 3

      Project 2 ends...... And almost immediately is the next project. At least each project is a large step towards the end of my first semester in college. So here's the synopsis for Project 3:

Preparedness
     I feel pretty assured about this project actually, Since it's an argument and I did a very multi media genre last project, I'm only doing a standard college essay for this project. What we did in class was exceptionally helpful to my complete understanding of the project and what sort of focus or subject matter it should be on.

Author
Interest
      I have a lot of interest in the subject I am going to work with in this project; the singular pronoun They. The interest in this subject is both personal and connected to a lot of societal/political interests as well. As a member of the LGBT+ community and having many friends in the community as well, this subject is close to home since many of my friends prefer this gender neutral pronoun.
       Along with that as more and more of the LGBT+ community is "normalized" it makes sense socially for us  to be able to not only address people we do not know in a gender neutral way, but also people we do know without the use of "he/she" that ignores those that do not identify specifically with a gender.

Preconceptions
       A personal bias that I might bring to this project is that I firmly believe that the singular they is both grammatically accurate and completely acceptable for everyday use I hope to just play on that to to have a focus on how the issue may not be acceptable in either of these places.

Audience

1. The audience for this work will hopefully be anyone that is either interested in learning more about how to use the singular they pronouns, or people that already know about the subject but wish to understand the arguments behind it a bit better.
2. The beliefs and assumptions for the audience for this work may be a wide range. It could be those staunchly against any use of they as a singular pronoun,or it could be those that are incredibly for the use of the singular they, and perhaps even those in use of it for themselves. I want to make sure that I address all these views.
3. Because of the variation in specific audience, the reactions by those in my audience may also be prone to wildly fluctuating. 
4. To relate to the audience I want to not use too many terms that general people would not understand
5.  Convincing people I hope can just be done logically; people will realize that its not a grammatical fallacy or some sort of pandering (looking at the older generations)

Purpose

Affect
      I want to accomplish with this project an education of those that do not understand the use of the singular they pronoun and hopefully convince those that are against using it that there is no solid reason to be,

What else needs to be done
       I think the major reminder many people who make an argument against the use of this pronoun is that its "ungrammatical" when really we use it in everyday speech. I think it's that the second you point out the use of the singular they is for transgender or nonbinary individuals is when people take offense to using it.

Context

Genre
     I'm going to be writing a college essay for this project; I'm very comfortable writing in this genre, it might be my best writing actually. Most effective conventions will be word choice and use of credible sources.

Time Period
       This is a more recent debate getting more and more interest and media coverage. I may relate back to some past acceptance or allowance of the singular they to relate but it's mostly a focused in the present issue

Who is Talking
         Lots of blogs are talking about this, and so are academic sources.

• Times Higher Education
• Washington Post
• Economist
• WIRED

Counter Arguments
           Haven't had time to dig through the internet for sources of these counter arguments. But lets just say they're arguments I've heard personally :

• Against grammar rules
• Pandering or special treatment 
• "Can't we just call them an it?" (ah irony)

Another Editorial Report

      As with any work, the final cut is different than the beginning rough draft, and with my work it's no different.

Content Change
       The content that was changed within this section of words includes some additional words before the laser puller citation, emphasizing parts of it. Along with that I added a few words to the last paragraph to emphasize the importance of the citations towards ethical appeals

Form Change
         The form changes echo much of the last report. I added music to give the section a more entertaining flow and a happier mood. The quotes from the paper are read by a different person to give the listener's some variation to hopefully keep interest.

Selection from Rough Cut
         

There are citations on both the filament and the laser pull used. For the filament it is referenced as:

(1 mm outer diameter, 0.58 mm internal diameter, Sutter Instruments Co., Novato, CA)

And the laser puller is from:

(P-2000, Sutter Instruments Co., Novato, CA)

These credible sources are important towards ethical appeals because they back up the author’s claims and help prove that the findings from this research are true and have repeatable results, which are very important to statistical power and research being accurate.

Re-Edited Selection

Edited Section

Editorial Report

      As with any work, the final cut is different than the beginning rough draft, and with my work it's no different.

Content Change
       The content changed in a couple ways, primarily the change in content was putting in a full quote by Dr. Nighorn instead of just a rough summary quote that I had considered using.

Form Change
        The form changed in many ways, I actually recorded it so it became in the correct form for the genre that I had been writing for instead of just a rough script. Also in addition of just recording the writing in my voice, the inclusion of background music and Dr. Nighorn's quote helped fit the form.

Selection from Rough Cut

“However we could discuss the general all day, to get to the more specific we will discuss the paper “Local interneuron diversity in the primary olfactory center of the moth Manduca sexta”, the authors of which are  Carolina E. Reisenman, Andrew M. Dacks, John G. Hildebrand, for as Dr. Nighorn said “[there is no solo authoring in the field]”.

Re-Edited Selection

Edited Section

Reflection on Finishing Early for Once

        And now project 2 draws to a close, and I must reflect on everything that has happened so far.

Successes
       For things going right this week, I think actually most things went how I had hoped they would. Though my blog posts are late my actual project I turned in on time and I'm relatively proud how it turned out in the end. I had the recordings done relatively well and in a timely manner to ensure I could get it all together.

Challenges
        The challenge for this week like always was time management, however unlike previous weeks I planned effectively. Another challenge was having other things to do, mostly non-school related but necessary of me to get done, that ate away from my project work time.

The Future
         I think with surprisingly well this project turned out that this next project, because I'm choosing to work with a college essay, will be much easier overall.

It's All Over
          I'm quite happy with how the project turned out but I'm still really relieved its over so I can fret about something else for awhile.

Peer Review for Rigo Avila

      Another project drawing to a close, and once again time to review my peers work, and try to be helpful in any way I can.

The Work Under Review
The first person's work I reviewed was Rigo Avila, and his Script and Podcast 1.

HOW
I reviewed his work under the content suggestion review activity; describing to him a way in which a shift in his content could be beneficial to his work. Specifically, I think I helped him possibly have direction in how to make his work less general.

Guideline's Followed?
A course guideline I decided to follow in giving him advice, while not really a written rule as much as emphasized in class rule, is that we're supposed to be specific in our works in this class; specific and detailed. So I wanted to help Rigo by suggesting how he might make his work less general so that there won't be points off for not going into enough depth.

Admiral Admirable
From what I was able to listen to from Rigo's podcast so far, I really admire how he is achieving both a relatable and a more personable persona than I feel I have projected so far. His speech is more engaging and less formal, and it's probably too late to re record everything, it has given me some inspiration on going about integrating other sources.