Content Outline

In this post, I have my tentative outline for Project 2. I'm hesitant to marry myself to this outline because I haven't had any luck finding one of my genre examples, but hopefully I can get it together and find some examples soon.

Opening section:

• In this section, I plan to open with some kind of introduction about myself since I'll be making a podcast. 
• I find that posing some kind of question is a good way to grab the audience's attention. Something dramatic usually works too. "Do you ever stop to wonder how health professionals conduct their writing? You probably should. You trust these people with your life in their hands. Wouldn't it be smart to know how they communicate?"
• Another way to grab the audience's attention might be to hype up the interviews I did. Maybe something like, "Including exclusive interviews with our own published UofA professors and alum!"

1st body section:

• I plan to separate "body paragraphs" into the different genres I'll be exploring.
• The first can be patient charts since it's the most different from the other two genres. 
• I'll explain what they are as well as the audience, context and purpose.
• 1st piece of evidence: This is where I can include snippets of my interview with Kaylyn, since she mentioned them. 
• It's important because as a new RN, it's already a very important aspect of her career. 
• This is important to mention because it relates to the audience; most people have been/know someone who has been in a hospital. 
• 2nd piece of evidence: I'll be able to cite a specific example of a chart and rhetorically analyze it. 
• I hope to prove the importance of this genre in the nursing field (since its so patient centered), as well as emphasize the type of language that's used and how objectively written they are. 
• A very important thing to note is that these documents are seen by many people involved with the patient, like other nurses and doctors, so they need to be accurate. 
• These documents may also be used in legal battles, which is huge. 

2nd body section:

• In this section I plan to focus on nursing journals. 
• 1st piece of evidence: snippets from the interviews I did with both Professor Rene and Professor Peek.
• They are both nurses with plenty of experience writing for journals, so they mentioned many key elements like their process and specific audiences. 
• This will be important because it will spice up the podcast (since it won't just be me talking) and prove that it's real world applicable.
• 2nd piece of evidence: an example of a nursing journal and an analysis of it. 
• As of right now, a good example I found was in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 
• This piece of evidence will hopefully prove how much work goes into publishing a journal and the vast amount of information that nurses can learn from them. 
• It will be important to emphasize this because this is how nurses learn new practices and educate themselves within the field, so the kind of care they give remains up to date and betters with time. 

3rd body section:

• In this section I will talk about the lectures and conferences. 
• 1st piece of evidence: snippets from the interviews with Professor Rene and Professor Peek.
• They both attend conferences and give lectures on the type of writing and journal (and therefore research) they do. 
• This will be important because it's essentially a public forum and a means of spreading information in the nursing field through word of mouth. 
• This will be interesting to point out because the other two genres were print or online sources.
• 2nd piece of evidence: adding some audio from a lecture and analyzing it.
• I believe this will prove the implications and effect that writing in journals and researching has on the nursing field. People gather to talk and learn about it, so it's not like their work is published and just sits out there and no one cares. 
• This is important so that people can have an idea of the content in the journals. It's also important to contrast this genre to just a journal, because the process and form it takes on is so different. 

Closing Section:

• In this section, I'm gonna take some time to explain how all of these genres are connected and build off each other. 
• Without the journals to guide nurses and give them new information on techniques and patient care, nurses wouldn't be able to remain informed and function as well. The charts would (most likely) deviate from each other and lose the uniformity they have, which makes it harder ti conduct research. This is the kind of research that is used to write the nursing journals in the first place, so organized nurses are essential. The lectures and conferences make this information more public and create a discussion forum to better the research and patient care, which creates better nurses who can conduct better research and write better journals. Pretty much a huge connected cycle. 
• Finally, a bring back the part about how essential well trained and informed health care givers are to everyone who's been in a hospital or who has family in a hospital. This affects everyone in some way. 

And an outline was born.