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Andrew J.

Weeks
UWRT 1103 043
December 7th, 2014
sweg

The following statement is the result of the Multi-Genre project, a project set on using
genres to explore the creative minds and abilities of students to convey their inquiry to
different audiences, in different ways, while retaining the same focus in each genre piece.
My ideal goal for the project is to inform the public on safety and facts, pacify but instill
the idea of the dangers of Ebola, and extinguish the fear factor enacted by the media. A target
audience I hope to influence are the young adults, who are seeking to look past the
inappropriate jokes, learn rather than receive misconceptions, and heated garbage provided by
the media. That target audience can be influenced or obtained through poems, pamphlets, and
dating sites, especially these because they are all the rage for anti-socialites. The main sources
which influenced my overall perspective of the matter were my second, fifth, and seventh
sources. The reason being is because of several factors. The second source provided me with
every patient who had become infected, the ways you can safely avoid contraction, prevent the
spread, and steps to take if you do contract it, and ultimately provided statistics to support and
enhance the points it was trying to get across. The fifth article gave the governments
perspective and also the description behind how it was working to help assist and fund the
projects to help treat, deter, and cure the infection. My last source provided an inside look on
how the media truly is and a sense of what the media is capable in relation to epidemics,
specifically Ebola, socially, politically, and economically. Overall, the sources provided me with
new and factual data over the he-said-she-said rumors of todays everyday society, whether it is
other people or the media.

Andrew J. Weeks
UWRT 1103 043
December 7th, 2014
sweg

Out of the potential genres to choose from, I decided to use a poem to include those
who are artistic and literate, a pamphlet to inform the populous and provide actual facts, and
an online dating site to make the info relatable but also witty.
To go into further depth, the poem is just a way for me to express myself, while also
targeting those who like to interpret the expression of another. Indirectly targeting those of an
older age range in order to expand my possible audience, I wrote the poem out of the
expression of my heart and mind. I originally tried to make the poem funny but it was hard to
make a poem about thousands of people dying, the rampant spread to other countries, and the
role the U.S. has made. I attempted to make it dark and twisted as the disease truly is,
however, I threw in a role reversal by including the U.S. and us as alternating words.
Furthermore, I created an acronym into the poem, which entitles every first letter building onto
the phrase The Ebola Virus in the US. The phrase The Ebola Virus in the US stands for the
inquiry topic I first devised and was a way for me to reconnect it back to my original concept. To
make the acronym more visible and apparent, I created specific and important words into red
text, bolded, and/or both. I believe I couldve made a better poem if I did not do a haiku but I
wanted to have a challenge and I feel like an older audience would appreciate a haiku, rather
than some short burst of words a young adult would broadcast online to gain some form of
attention. Ultimately, I hoped my audience would be fazed and subconsciously forced to think
about the virus. Make them feel the sadness, the pain of those facing the virus face to face.
Surely, they couldnt get the full experience but if my writing could get them somewhat closer
to that idea, then I completed my goals of the genre. I wanted to let them know that we have

Andrew J. Weeks
UWRT 1103 043
December 7th, 2014
sweg

to take action and not only try to change something when it affects us personally because being
better people is not as easily as saying youll do something and not.
The second genre I chose to create was a pamphlet. Pamphlets are known for dishing
out a decent amount of information effectively and creatively. In other words, I saw the
pamphlet as a different form of a genre to better help me get my factual data across to my
target audience. I used my resources I found previously for my blog posts, specifically from my
sources Data for Days! and The C.D.C (Center for Disease Control). The two blog posts were
derived from credible sites which provided a plethora of statistics and information for me to
relay back to my audience and peers. The statistics I used was the number of those infected and
dying, while the information I used includes the ways to remain safe and healthy, prevention of
contracting the disease, and the safety protocols being enacted within the U.S. itself to insure
public safety and the idea of security within the country. Clearly I chose the genre to broadcast
copious amounts of information for those willing to learn and still willing to pick up a pamphlet
including various facts, precautions, and news. The strategies I used on it was to include only
colors of red, black, and white to get across the idea of danger and death. Also, I used pictures
of those being afflicted and the vectors who are responsible for spreading the disease, as well
as some of the symptoms experienced by those who are infected.
Lastly, the dating site is just a way to pacify all the tension caused by my previous two
genres, while also providing a supple amount of information on Ebola and what it has done
worldwide and nationally. I included dozes of pictures ranging from comics relating to Ebola,
graphic images, and the ways Ebola had been initially spread. Unfortunately, I was unable to

Andrew J. Weeks
UWRT 1103 043
December 7th, 2014
sweg

find an online dating website profile, so in order to compensate I thought what better way to
be witty than to create a Myspace profile. If you are unclear of what Myspace is, it is a dead
online site which provided me with the ability to share dating information, witty punch lines,
and music to create ideas off of to include in my posts. To include a deeper level on those ideas,
I used my Bio to get across minor data on Ebola and its origins, I used lines such as, Youll be
dying for more!, and I used popular music to create more punch lines. I did not use my On
This Episode of Fear Factor, however, I used comics and images which related back to the
idea of media having a fear factor over its viewers and the public itself. Without this fear factor,
I would not have thought of the idea to pacify this fear factor with the use of my online
profile. The audience I was aiming for was those of a younger age by reaching out with humor
and not a serious genre. Most young people view serious genres as something to avoid and by
using the music, images, and punch lines as I mentioned before, I believe I would be better able
to reach them. Though it is a Myspace profile I still attempted to create it into an online dating
profile by including a series of sentences which create a flirtatious personality for Ebola V.
In the end, I believe my genres branched across a wide variety of audiences, allowing
me to have a greater reach and effect across the country. Though the pieces are nowhere near
similar in their genres, I reconnected the idea of Ebola in the U.S. numerous times in order to
reiterate the idea behind its actions and processes. The world is an island and thinking in your
own personal world will ultimately lead to the capsizing of this vessel. We need to be more
active and not let the media tell us what we should fear, or let the government provide
falsettos about the reality of world events. By being active we will open our eyes to the actual

Andrew J. Weeks
UWRT 1103 043
December 7th, 2014
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issues, not only Ebola, but the truth behind the actions the U.S. could take instead of waiting for
it to reach our own shores.

Andrew J. Weeks
UWRT 1103 043
December 7th, 2014
sweg
Work Cited
Ashkenas, Jeremy, Larry Buchanan, Joe Burgess, Denise Grady, Josh Keller, Patrick J. Lyons, Heather
Murphy, Sergio Pecanha, Karen Yourish, and K.K. Rebecca Lai. "Ebola Facts: When Did Ebola Arrive
and Spread at a Dallas Hospital?" The New York Times. The New York Times, 30 July 2014. Web. 21
Oct. 2014
Linkins, Jason. "Let's Help The Media Be Better On Ebola." The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, 21 Oct. 2014. Web. 6 Dec. 2014.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/media-ebola-coverage_n_6017734.html>.
"Questions and Answers on Ebola." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 27 Oct. 2014. Web. 29 Oct. 2014.
<http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/qa.html>.

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