Production Report 8b

This blog post concerns my first production report of two for this week's blog work. For this blog post, I decided to develop my introduction. After all, it is the first thing that people see and, ultimately, you can tell if you want to read something within 3 to 4 seconds. Let's make those seconds count!


Original Content Outline Introduction:

Topic 3

1. Discuss situational relevance for each one vs. each other….. In short, the brevity is necessary for 95% of the casual audience, whereas the other 5% really want to see the nuances in the design elements implemented by these teams.
2. Talk about scenarios in which one would work and another would NOT…. talking to high school kids, you probably wouldn’t persuade them to enter Electrical Engineering by handing them a dense textbook and telling them to have fun.

1. Specific appeals to….

    a. Sensory details

    b. Real Life Examples

    c. Efficiency

      B.  Discuss why the majority of people employ said genre

Adaptation:

When would I consider writing a scientific journal?

Easy. Scientific journals are the meat and potatoes of the industry. If you need to know a lot about a certain field of study, you would come here.

There is a ton of dense information packed into anywhere from 10 to 300+ pages, regarding any topic you would like to know about regarding electrical engineering:

1) circuits

2) programming
3) computer efficiency

4) interactions between parts

etc.. etc.. etc..!!!

Scientific journals are extremely relevant also because it the professional version of a resume.

When someone asks about what you have accomplished past grad school, you point them to what you have published, and 99 out of 100 times, it will be "what scientific journals have you been a part of?"

It's the equivalent of when the high school kid is asked, "what is your GPA?"... "what is your SAT score?"... "what extracurriculars do you participate in?"

However, not everybody is a Ph.D-level engineer trying to make a name for themselves.

When would I consider writing in an engineering magazine?

An engineering magazine is the light-hearted, more fun version of the scientific journal.

If you want to show somebody who doesn't know a lick about what engineering is, you would show them WIRED, which has a ton of interesting trinkets that would interest the average joe.

Here are the types of things that frequent engineering journals:

1) Pictures... lots of them!!!

2) Charts... statistics about what the best new gadget is

3) Quotes from famous engineers that we know about

4) Reviews from average users and "experts" about new devices

Engineering magazines are extremely helpful because it turns a general disinterest, or more likely, someone who is undecided how to feel, into the next avid supporter of DJI Phantom portable drones.

By using a quick reference guide for this, I can more visually compare the differences between the two genres. I don't have to explain step-by-step like I would in an essay, or even a podcast.

The conventions of the genre allow the reader to visualize the situation past just seeing a block wall of text. Usage of diagrams that I will add later on will aid the ease of read even more than it already is.

I need to add a venn-diagram for this section on when a scientific journal is more effective vs. when an engineering magazine is more effective. Other than that, I feel like my draft is taking major strides in the right direction.