Unit 3 Group Proposal

For our Unit 3 Project, we have chosen to address the issue of the creation of a new Living Learning Center for LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning students) and their supporters and the impact it would have on our community. We will be discussing whether or not this additional housing is in the best interest of all students and our community as a whole. We will talk about new concerns it has generated such as advocating separatism and segregation as well as the discrimination and prejudice it has created towards the homosexual community. We will do this through visual mediums with minimal captions such as political cartoons and video commercials. We will also use written texts like petitions, conversations, newspaper articles, headlines, and flyers along with explanations of our intended audience and context.
Our main concerns revolved around the possibility of offending others in one way or another based on the arguments we create. We also are concerned about our schedules matching to one another with regards to meeting outside of class to generate arguments.

In Class: Ch.14

Visual Elements of Arguments
Q: What does the creator intend its effect to be?
I feel that this question will be extremely important for our Unit 3 project because my group members and I are the ones who are creating the arguments this time rather than analyzing the argument. We will want to make our message very clear through the arguments we choose to make.
Q: What effect does the choice of medium have on the message of the visual text? How would the message be altered if different media were used?
This will also be a very important question for my group to answer throughout our work on the project because we will want to make the best arguments we can. By choosing wisely which media we will use to convey our message about our topic it will either make our argument stronger or if we choose a media that doesn't fit our topic very well then it will make our argument less effective.