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Ethos: I will establish ethos to my website by creating language to connect to others such as myself. As well as those in my community. By adding personal notes and a bio page, it would help ethos be strong. Pathos: I will establish pathos by making sure that the website flows well overall and being consistent. Ethos: I will establish ethos by adding my scholarly work, such as the documentary we created this semester and my overall research as an undergraduate at UTEP. Section B: As A Designer As a designer I will employ consistency throughout the website, such as with color and every page on the website. I also want to make it easy to use and easy to maneuver. As well as with the color consistency with the website, I do not want it to be harsh or hard to read/understand; so the use of neutral colors will be used. Once all of these actions are employed through the website, hopefully the audience feels as good as I do!

 Section A:

A. The trend lines website is very unbalance and cluttered, as well has very small text that makes it hard to read and understand. However the Aaron Marquez website was balanced very well and it was easy to maneuver.  

B. The trend line website has many bright colors while Marquez’s website was consistent in color and tone. There are also many overlapping elements compared to the Marquez website where information has its own part of the website.

C. Marquez’s website consistency throughout the website flow and is easy to find information, but compared to the trend line website, it is difficult to find the pieces of information because everything is so cluttered and overlapping.

D. The trend line website is about a quarter of a full page with all of the information in small groups, making it look very cluttered. However the Marquez website a couple pages long and it has different links to different pages. 

E. The Marquez website communicated information very well by spreading them apart, making it easier for the reader. However, the trend line website is very ineffective because it is very overwhelming and it’s hard to understand the purpose of the website.

Section B:

1. I will have to make sure that my website is balanced by sectioning information rather than grouping it all together.

2. i will be sure that the different parts of the website look the same as the overall theme. 

3. Consistency will be used throughout my website by using the same color tone and font, as well as the flow of the website.

4. Alignment and grouping will be used to where it is easy to find the information that one is looking for.

5. I’ll just use neutral tones like black and white and grey because they are not complicated colors.

What days and times will I commit to the project?

I will contribute as much time as needed to complete the project and the days I will commit are the days that we meet and the extra days it will take to add my contribution to the project. 

What days/times are you working as a group and when will you work alone?

The days and times we will work as a group is on Fridays and Sundays in the afternoon in the group study rooms in the library. I will work alone during the week on the days we do not meet and finish up my part of the project for as long as it takes to complete it. 

Specifically, what aspect of the project will you address on each of those days?

I will address the anthropological lack of diversity for the project and what we can do to make an overall change for the field. The lack of diversity in higher education in general is prominent and is mostly dominated by whites. 

And you will also be able to see specifically the lack of racial diversity in anthropology and how it too is dominated by whites. 

Specifically, what will I do to complete these aspects of the project?

I will show up to all of the group meetings and by the time the next time we meet, I will have my portion of the project progressing towards completion. So every time we meet, I will have something to add to the project in iMovie or have the portion done in iMovie already.

What specific aspects of the assignment am I most concerned about? What can I do to address those concerns?

I am most concerned about being able to make our video shorter than six minutes because there are four topics that will need to be touched on and all of them need to be described thoroughly. Especially, since there will be a massive change in higher education to come with the new presidency and the diversity in education is more important than ever. I will be able to address these concerns by making my portion of the video short and sweet and to the point, yet also affective.  

https://edexcellence.net/articles/president-elect-donald-trump-quotes-about-education 

I am also not too sure how to propose a certain solution that will change this certain demographic in higher education. Which we will be able to address the more times we meet, and since it is the last thing that we will need to address in the video, we have some time to discuss it. 

What specific aspects of the assignment are you most comfortable with? Why?

I am most comfortable with putting the project together in iMovie. I am very comfortable with using the program and putting things together to create a project. I have a few examples of previous projects I created through iMovie: 

Topic: Racial Diversity in Higher Education

Purpose: There is a lack of diversity in higher education

Audience:  Young minorities in higher education 

Solution: Encourage minorities to “check the box” in universities and to be proud of their nationality rather than be seen as meeting a certain quota. 

Topic: Diversity in Higher Education - Anthropology

Ethos:

The lack of racial diversity in the anthropological field is getting rough to integrate minorities in the field that is predominantly white in the field of study and in the academy. 

Even UTEP is guilty of this, even thought it prides itself on being one of the most diverse universities according to Dr. Luykx a PhD professor in the anthropology field: “UTEP has no black faculty, and yet it prides itself at being very diverse because we have a lot more Latino faculty than most places. But the fact that we can’t keep black faculty members here, I think is something the UTEP administration ought to be concerned about because I do not see them addressing it in a proactive way that would be privy to those conversations” (Dr. Luykx 2016).

Pathos:

There has been racial and gender imbalances in anthropology since the 1960′s and it has been an uphill battle for the integration of minorities. If these inequities continue in the anthropology field, then it will continue to counter the inherent vales of anthropology. 

Logos:

The lack of racial diversity within anthropology for so many years has made it a social norm to exclude minorities throughout universities.  In the figure below, it shows the distribution of 1.5 million faculty members in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. as of 2013 according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Advocacy: 

Race is a product of cultural and economical circumstances according to the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

Coverpage: 

The Cover Page in APA is only one page, with a running head, title of the paper, name and date, as well as class, centered in the middle of the page. According to Purdue Owl:

Abstract:

For the abstract, it must contain the objective of your research, research questions, methods, and results. As well as contain a keywords section with all of the important key terms. It must be between 150-250 words.

Example:

References:

The references page has many specific rules to be followed, as listed below in Purdue Owl:  

As well as a description of how to do a reference page in below video from YouTube:

Now that we know how to do the cover page, abstract, and references page, we can have a successful APA formatted paper!

I was beginning to feel very discouraged about my upcoming interview, but as soon as I started to draft the email to be sent out, I started to feel a little better and excited to interview Dr. Luykx. I prepared the draft of the email to be sent out at 8am tomorrow morning!

Next, I downloaded the interview release form to my dropbox:

Next, including my drafted interview questions:

Next, I downloaded the Interview Confirmation to DB:

For my interview materials, I will be recording the interview with my iPhone and notebook: 

Now that I’ve completed this assignment, I actually feel a lot more confident about my upcoming interview!

Time to begin interview questions....

I began my academic stalking by going to my major’s department page 

I went to the faculty tab and a list of names appeared 

What I am looking for as an interviewee is a woman in the field, preferably majoring in women’s studies. 

The first professor that I clicked on was Maria Morales and she focuses on ethnicity and minority relations.

The second name that I clicked on was Carina Heckert and she has been published and one of her main research interests are gender. 

As for the professor that I decided to choose is...drum roll please...

Professor Aurolyn Luyx. I chose her because she is actually one of my previous professors and she focuses a lot on gender diversity in society, so I would be very interested in hearing her opinion on women anthropologists in higher education.

Before the UWC

After the UWC

Reflection:

When I first began my research, I was feeling a bit discouraged because there is not much information on the diversity of gender in the anthropology field.

I started by going to EBSCO host and typing in women and anthropology 

But when I typed those words together it brought up a lot of options but nothing that had to do with women in the anthropology field itself. 

I started to worry that it was going to continue to be like this: I find an overwhelming abundance of studies on women using anthropology but not in the field of anthropology. 

But then, I narrowed down the information just a bit by putting women in anthropology, instead of and. 

There was an article in particular that caught my attention

This article, just by reading the abstract is what I was looking for. All I needed to do was change my wording in the search bar for me to find what I really needed.

Now that I found an article relevant to my topic, I made sure that there was a direct link to it, and sure enough it took me straight to the document.

After this experience that I thought was going to be stressful and difficult, actually came out to be easier than I expected. Which is a relief.

How does the audience tie in with the purpose? Are they trying to convince a certain discourse community to agree with them or think differently? Are they trying to encourage general awareness?

They are trying to inform the audience that there is gender inequities in the scientific field and by informing them, they would hope to encourage women to make a change in the field and make them confident enough to make a change.

Through this article, they are also educating the public about how rare it is for women in anthropology to be published. 

Since this is the first article out of few to be researched thoroughly says a lot about how much people know about this topic. 

I happened to find this blog after many attempts of research for this topic, so it was quite hard to find thorough research on women in anthropology. Which goes to show that the is issue of gender inequity is still not widely known within the field. 

This blog article is also trying to persuade women in the anthropological field to not settle for less in the teaching field and aspire to more than what they can get.