Extra Credit Blog Post

I’m excited to read other’s blog posts on this subject. I’m not so sure that I’ve narrowed down my topic as much as I should. That’s why I’m looking forward to looking at these blog posts. That’s what they’re for, right? So I’m still looking for ideas. That naturally leads to the next part of the blog. My questions. I guess my main questions are the same ones as I had with the rhetorical analysis. I’ve done many research papers before, but not with thesis’ and not with me taking a stance and trying to be persuasive. I’m wondering how much of it is fluff and how much of it is really stuff that I’m needing to keep. I also have questions about the format. What is the most effective, and how I should lay it out in order to give it the greatest impact to my intended audience. As I’ve been thinking about my paper, my intended audience has changed a lot. My topic is South Korean education, and at the start I was going to try to compare it to the United State’s system and analyze the benefits to our economy should we change our education system to match that of South Korea’s. After trying to research that, I realized that that would come up fruitless. Now I’m just analyzing on a broader spectrum whether or not implementing different parts of the South Korean education system would be beneficial. Thus, my audience has broadened just by virtue of making it a more applicable to the general public. While at the start my hope was that the audience would be economists (who would be the audience because I was going to connect it to the economy), lawmakers (who possess the political power to change the educational system), and parents (who, if persuaded, would provide the backup needed to back the change in the education system). However, my goal now in writing more broadly is to attract all who read to come to the same conclusions that I do. I hope to write it in an interesting enough way, with enough background information, that anybody could pick it up and read it and be intrigued, and hopefully compelled to action. I realize that with this, though, will have to come much more thought. I’ve already spent much more time just thinking about how to write the paper than the other papers so far this semester. While the other papers this semester have rather easily just come out of my head straight onto the paper, this one has proved to be much different.