WP2 Statement of Purpose

The purpose of my Writing Project 2 is to demonstrate how the Calvin and Hobbes comic I am writing about makes the argument that childhood is short and needs to be embraced. I will show this by explaining the technical elements of drawing style, paneling, and form and by explaining the ideals embodied in the comic through the dialogue and pictures. I want to show how these elements work to appeal to a large audience and support the argument of the comic.

The primary audience of my paper is my teacher, Mr. Ware, because he is the only person that is guaranteed to read it. In addition, he is the one grading me on my project, so I have to make sure my paper is effective and fulfills the requirements of the assignment. I need to make my writing unique so that it stands out from my classmates' writing projects that might be similar to mine, and I plan to do this by including information unique to my comic, such as background information on Calvin and Hobbes, as well as trying to introduce more specific concepts such as those talked about in "Compose, Design, Advocate" and the McCloud essay on the vocabulary of comics.

A potential potential audience is current and future English 151H students. These people may be looking at my blog as an example of the assignment, and because of this, I need to make sure my writing is a good representation of the writing project. Again, I have to keep in mind the guidelines of the assignment and write a paper that is as comprehensible and effective as it can be. Because these people may be using my paper to work on their own projects, I need my writing project to be excellent.

In addition, since my writing project will be posted to my blog, it will be available to anyone with internet access. This means that another secondary audience will be people browsing blogs or someone searching the internet. Because of this, I will have to keep my writing clear and concise so people who might not know about the specific technical elements and concepts we learned about in class will understand it.

Because the medium of this writing project will be a blog post, the context will be as part of the internet. This will allow me to use multimedia aspects such as pictures and hyperlinks to enhance the meaning of my essay. Besides including the comic I am assessing, I can post other relevant pictures to illustrate my points, and easily link to outside information sources. By doing this, I will be able to focus my writing on analyzing the comic and I won't have to provide in-depth explanations of background and additional information. If I were writing this project in a more traditional medium, such as a standard paper, I would not be able to do this.

This medium is also useful for appealing to my audience. My writing project can be easily reached from links on my classmate's blogs and on the main page for our class. Having it on the internet makes it highly accessible to anyone who might want or need to read it.

Overall, my goal for Writing Project 2 is convey the argument of the comic I am analyzing, and do this in a thorough, well-written paper. As this is the second writing project of the year, I hope to improve on my work in Writing Project 1. I think I will be able to do this because I have received extensive feedback from Writing Project 1, and I will use those suggestions in order to make my writing better.