My Subject Assessment

Hello Again,

This is my project assessment. It gives you more of an idea of the publication im writing for, my target audience and more details on my topic.

Assessment:

For this final project, I decided that I am going to write for Orion Magazine. I have never written for this publication and don’t know much about it, but when I was looking through it I saw that not only does it contain poetry, and pictures but it also contains science related articles that have a personal touch to them. Some articles use dialog and some don’t. I like this type of writing because I like adding research and facts to my essay as well as personal experiences with that topic because it makes it more interesting to write and to the reader. My topic is going to be on the Long Island Sound and how it is being affected by climate change. I will not only incorporate my personal fishing and boating experiences into this paper, but also scientific knowledge and facts about the Sound. When thinking about my target audience, I first think of people who are familiar with the Sound, mainly fishermen. They will be the ones who will relate better when I discuss the native fish species to the Sound moving north to find colder waters and the more tropical fish are moving into the Sound to find warmer water. They will be shocked when they hear that their normal catch might not be there next time. I also think that anyone interested in the topic climate change overall will be interested in reading this because they will gain more knowledge about how it’s affecting the ocean. My writing style is going to be scientific with a few personal points as well. I want to incorporate all the times I went fishing and what I caught and what I saw out on the water compared to what I would catch and see if I went back there right now. The guidelines I’m going to follow are sticking to no more than five pages. I also don’t want to put too much dialog in it or too much research in it. I want to try and equal them out. The expectations are sticking to my topic without going off on a tangent and I also expect myself to write a good strong piece without changing my voice or tense throughout the entire thing. The article I am going off of is the one in the Orion Mazagine called “A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn” by Ginger Strand. This article made me think about how I feel when I see something from my childhood slowly being destroyed. This was when I knew I wanted to write for Orion and I wanted to make my piece like this one with an equal amount of facts and personal experiences with dialog. I will make a twitter account so that I can update those interested on my progress of this paper and eventually post pieces of it so people will want to get the magazine and read the whole thing.

To view my distillation article from Orion Magazine please go to: A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn