In many speeches and articles, the author has to have their target audience in order to grab their attention, persuade them to their opinion (based on the topic), and make the point they wish to make. In my previous essay, essay #2 I had mentioned how social media has been a positive effect on teenagers, especially during the pandemic. I would present this essay with the visuals between high school teenagers and parents. High school teenagers from ages 13 and older we able to find their escape way of how the pandemic limited them to do things, especially for those who did extra activities. We can see the challenges they went through, how they started to use social media and how today is still in good use for them. Meanwhile, parents do concerned about what their children see on social media. These are two perspectives that are sometimes difficult for a child and parent to see. A child will like to be respected with their privacy by setting up boundaries, as for parents they like to keep eye on their children, have communications and set a relationship with there is confidence. 

My audience will be teenagers and parents, being able to understand what it feels like to be in each other shoes. Once trust in each other is based on the boundaries each one sets up, of course, there are some things children don’t want their parents to know and vice versa. If parents get to feel the emotions of solitude and boredom their children feel, they would get to understand how social media can make them feel better. The same thing with children, if they get to feel how their parents are concerned they would be able to open up with each other. Examples like TikTok videos of people sharing DIYS, funny videos, and inspirational words teens see today can help parents see and feel what their children feel when they see these videos. Not only is social media an escape way for children but also a helpful way out when doing projects. Finding information on YouTube or Instagram based on political issues can be beneficial for everyone. In the end, I wish to reach parents and teens to understand each other more and build a better bond for each other. 

The visual essay is the most important because it allows individual expression. Because it is visual, it is important that my writing and artwork reach the proper and intended specific audience to deliver the message. As my essay #1, and essay #2 have both focused on the topics of mental health in youth, and then specifically with high school and college students, it will be important that my visual essay addresses two audiences. The first is these high school and college students, and the second is people surrounded by youth who ignore the issue. The primary characteristics of this audience for the first group are people between the age range of 13- 22. Those who are more inclined to be using social media, in sports and aware of the mental health crisis among their peers. The second group will be people in the age range of 30-65, this being people in the work field surrounded by these kids such as teachers, parents, professors, and doctors. For both of these groups, wealth, and gender are not large influencing factors to limit who the audience is, as it should be able to reach all demographics.

 I want my audience to feel strong emotions about my visual essay, such as sadness, shock, questioning, and drive to resolve the issue. I want this to be the feeling and the response so that way there can be recognized and drive to aid these younger people who suffer from mental health in the US. I want my audience to after this visual essay presentation, to be able to feel that the mental health crisis is real, but that it is okay and can be accepted. 

I feel that genres such as poetry, graphics of drawings/ paintings, and political cartoons will best reach my audience because this negative stigma around mental health can be really well demonstrated through imagery. I also believe it will be more accessible to my audience because reading long papers can be daunting and boring, so visuals are more entertaining and easy to understand. I will use rhetorical strategies of pathos to appeal to the emotions of my audience, such as personal connection or just general empathetic connection. This will allow me to engage my audience with my essay because it makes a personal connection between my art, myself, and my audience. Overall, I believe that this visual essay will allow me to solidify the importance of my social issue, and why it is so important that it is recognized.

As we begin the reach the end of the Fall 2021 semester, we have clearly witnessed and experienced how online learning has influenced both our daily lives and our academic efforts. While some may view online learning as an improvement from learning within a classroom setting, others, such as myself, view learning in person as the better form of education. Thus, the main audience of my third essay would essentially have to be students who may view online learning as beneficial. The primary characteristics of these students are those who wish to spend more of their time focusing on their hobbies or personal life rather than improve their knowledge of the classes they are taking. The main appeal I would like my audience to take away from my essay is how going back to the way schools used to be is better than attempting a completely new approach of learning that clearly has had its setbacks. Thus, I would want these students to better understand the choice they are making when determining which learning style may best suit them. The genre that I feel would strongly captivate my audience would be exposition and argumentation through the use of poetry and poster. The poem would reach out to the audience’s pathos while the poster would more or less be presented as a form of propaganda that may attract the attention of my audience. Rhetorical strategies that I may use to engage with my audience would essentially be narration as both the poem and poster would present themselves as a story, hence creating a significant impact on the audience’s emotions. The reason why this methodology is most effective, especially considering the period of time we are currently in, people tend to follow what fascinates them or is considered “trendy”. So by creating an emotional impact, I would draw in more attention from the students, thus spreading the word more quickly amongst other students, which would lead to a mass domino effect. Overall, I am quite interested in witnessing how my essay will look like.