A Collection of Prize-Winning Works Produces by Students of the Program for Writing and Rhetoric
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OCCASIONS OCCASIONS ONLINE A COLLECTION OF PRIZE-WINNING WORKS PRODUCES BY STUDENTS OF THE PROGRAM FOR WRITING AND RHETORIC © University of Colorado Boulder Occasions Home PWR Home OCCASIONS OCCASIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS FIRST YEAR CREATIVE NON-FICTION 1st Place - Mind on Fire, claire Tetro (On Page ....) 44 2nd Place - The Front Row, TYLER JUDD 55 3rd Place - Last Place, GINA SANDOVAL 57 COLLABORATIVE WRITING 1st Place - AIRFOIL Local Foods Design Proposal: NICHOLAS RENNINGER, PIERRE GUILLAUD, PAUL MCCLERNAN, ERIC ZHAO 4 MULTILINGUAL 1st Place - Transgenders Today, ZIWEI CHENG 60 2nd Place - Butterfly Pavilion Final Report: ROBERT ROSENTHAL, HENRY VENNARD, ANDREW OLIVER 14 MULTIMODAL COVER ART CONTEST 1st Place - Vietnam: Just or Unjust, CODY OSICKA (VIDEO) 64 1st Place - Knowing words, Patrick David May 23 HTTPS://DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM/FILE/D/1ETRMWZGZMF2JJLXUEETO9WKYLOQLNVE2/VIEW?USP=SHARING DIVERSITY 1st Place - Chosing Me, VALERIA RODRIGUEZ 23 UPPER DIVISION A&S 2nd Place - Ebola Vaccine Trials: The Unethicality of Current Approaches, HOLLY BORLAND 24 1st Place - Profiteers of Care, JOSHUA MAK 65 3rd Place - The Wall Between Latinos and Education, LUIS RAMIREZ 27 2nd Place - Is Gender Affirmative Care the answer, ANNIKA REUTER 73 3rd Place - A shot in the Dark, WYNNE ROYER 82 FIRST YEAR (SHORT FORM) 1st Place - Chasing Coral... and Finding Rhetoric, BRYAN MARTINO 34 2nd Place - Target Practice: Exposing the Conspiracies against Student Survivors, DIEU HANG HOANG 39 UPPER DIVISION CREATIVE NON-FICTION 1st Place - Shadowboxing, SARAH HOENE 90 2nd Place - Elon Musk, JACK GEDESS 96 3rd Place - A fair Look at Eminem through Revival, JOHN BELLIPANNI 100 FIRST YEAR (LONG FORM) 1st Place - Claire Tetro, MIND ON FIRE 44 Occasions Home PWR Home Occasions Home PWR Home 2 OCCASIONS OCCASIONS Introduction AIRFOIL LOCAL FOOD DESIGN PROPOSAL The Shed would like to be a clearinghouse of information for the local foods community; The Shed means to collect and distribute local foods information to its primary stakeholders: consumers, producers, non-profits, distributors, and sellers. NICHOLAS RENNINGER, PIERRE GUILLAUD, PAUL MCCLERNAN, ERIC ZHAO To accomplish this goal, The Shed needs a user-centered informational resource useful to all of its varied local foods stakeholders. This local foods informational resource should be maintained and adapted by theusers , should be searchable, and should help users to understand the local foods organizational network in Boulder. Our solution, detailed in this proposal, is for The Shed to implement a web-based wiki. Fittingly, according to Wikipedia, a “ wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser”. A wiki will allow The Shed to become a hub of local food information with minimal investment. Outside of Wikipedia, there are wikis for almost every conceivable organization or topic. The software used to make a wiki is openly available, and our proposal shows a variety of ways to create a wiki. Some of our proposed solutions do not even require a website developer; and some of those require less than a day to get set up. Aggregate Informational Resources for local Food Organization, Identity, and Logistics In this proposal we’ll walk you through an overview of our wiki design, how users would interact with the wiki, how the wiki could be moderated, and finally a section with some research on how to implement the wiki. Our Wiki Design Our proposed design is to create a wiki website for the local foods community. The Shed would host this website either externally or internally. Our design is based on three fundamental design principles focusing on three core aspects of the creation of a wiki, all of which will be explained in later sections: ● A wiki is stakeholder-built. To make this design feasible for The Shed, we had to make sure that this design can be built and molded by the community of users themselves. ● A wiki has searchable content. If the information is not searchable by the entire local foods community, then the information is useless. ● A wiki allows for cross-linked organizations. All of the organizational pages on the wiki will contain a “Local Foods Network” section, which shows the organization’s connection to all of the other classes of users. Occasions Home PWR Home Occasions Home PWR Home 4 OCCASIONS OCCASIONS Wiki Mockup navigated. To solve this problem, it is important for the wiki to have a way to find exactly what the user wishes to know more about. This is done through a search functionality. To mockup our wiki design, we used wikia.com, explained in our hosting section, to create a mockup of a Shed wiki. The wiki was set up in less than a day, and it required no coding. It can be deeply edited by anyone, and it has a built-in search capability. Start inquiry An inquiry starts by typing either keywords or specific organization names in a search bar. This search bar can be present on both the Shed’s website and on the wiki, if the wiki is externally hosted (more on hosting options in Where to Host the Wiki). Refine search The search can be modified and refined in multiple ways: ● Filter by tags that would match the most common definitions of local food. ● Select the maximum distance within Boulder County. ● Filter by types of stakeholder(Farms, Restaurants, Non-Profits, etc.). View results The inquiry results in a list of pages corresponding to the user’s inquiry. The results can be further refined if necessary using the same method as mentioned above. If the result does not exist, the user is presented with an option to add a page to the wiki. Access page Accessing the desired page gives the user access to all pertinent information about the organization that is available on the wiki. This includes the contact information of the organization, its address, a few paragraphs describing it, and a list of cross-linked local food organizations. The mockup website can be seen here: https://shedtest.wikia.com/wiki/SHEDtest_Wiki Edit content Each wiki page has a description of the stakeholder’s organization, their logo, their contact info, and most importantly, a “Local The user is able to add to or edit the content of the page if deemed necessary. The page editing is subject to verifications by different Food Network” section with a list all other stakeholders they interact with, including: methods of administration to keep the information accurate and on topic (Moderation is discussed further in Wiki Moderation). ● Restaurants ● Grocery Stores Designing to Stakeholder Needs ● Farms Our design is centered around the three concepts introduce ● Non-profits earlier: stakeholder-built, searchable content, and cross-linked How a User Interacts with the Wiki organizations. From these design principles, we detail in this section how each of the target stakeholder groups (consumers, producers, non-profits, distributors, and sellers) fits into our design. Stakeholder-built A wiki is a great way to aggregate information about many different topics, but it loses all its usefulness if it cannot be easily Occasions Home PWR Home Occasions Home PWR Home 6 OCCASIONS OCCASIONS A cornerstone of The Shed’s goal of becoming Boulder’s local food clearinghouse is the compilation of local foods information. The Shed can try multiple implementations of wikis without large resource investment. Also, a wiki’s information is inherently However, this compiled information is functionally useless without a user interface to effectively index and search this compiled user-centered, as the users themselves create its content. information. All wiki software standards natively support searching, and they can be easily extended with custom indexing / search engines to allow The Shed to further customize how users will ultimately interact with wiki data. Stakeholder: Consumers Cross-Linked Organizations During the design process, we researched what types of designs were most appealing to the stakeholders that were being targeted. During The Shed’s original design needs presentation, The Shed representative (Veronica) spoke at length about the motivation Among these stakeholders, the consumers were the main target of The Shed. For this stakeholder, it was discovered that the most behind The Shed’s initiative to be an informationalclearinghouse: The Shed would like to work with more non-profits and act as the non-profit tedious part of becoming more informed about the local food system is the large amount of searching that must be done both between community informational hub. Like any group of non-profits operating in the same field, the local foods non-profit community is different websites and within a single website. at risk of either under or over coverage of non-profit initiatives and their geographic distribution. To put it more concretely in an example: How do the multiple food rescuer non-profits ensure that they are utilizing local foods from all available farms / suppliers, and that they are not overburdening they farms / suppliers they do work with? Our design solution, a wiki, addresses the problem of knowledge sharing and local foods community networking. When a local foods stakeholder views a page for another local foods’ stakeholder, the page will contain organized links showing the page owner’s local food network. This capability is easily implementable or inherent to all wiki implementations and is directly in line with The Shed’s clearinghouse aspirations. Wiki Moderation Looking back at the needs of the consumers, the design of the wiki is convenient in the fact that it alleviates the former issue One of the largest challenges associated with a wiki is ensuring that its information is factual. While high-profile wikis like of travelling from site to site through the nature of the wiki itself. All relevant information for consumers is provided from other Wikipedia and some fan pages on Wikia (take the Harry Potter fandom wiki for example) are self-regulating by their communities, stakeholders and contained within the central hub of the wiki so that all navigation may be accomplished with ease.