My main focus in this semester is on the effects being on welfare has on children. My first project was an exploratory/informative essay which delved into the specifics of the United States welfare system. It included the necessary facts about how the system works, a brief history, and some startling statistics about the correlation between children’s participation in welfare and their performance in school (based on their parents’ employment, their attendance, and their work-ethic, etc.). For my next project, I want to take it one step further and potentially do a sort of expose’. My mother works as a kindergarten teacher at a public school here in Baton Rouge, and I am considering doing a piece which contains classroom observation, teacher and student interviews, and of course more supporting research.
As for audience, I mentioned in my last proposal that it includes anyone who will read it. This is because this problem, like many others in the class, affects the entire community. I am planning on taking a more journalistic approach for this project, so perhaps the audience could be narrowed down to those who would be reading a magazine or reader’s digest-type publication.
The purpose of my expose’ is not to hammer down on those who participate in the welfare system. Instead it will take examples from their lives and apply them to the welfare weaknesses I outlined in project one. It will be a factual documentation that will either support or disprove my questioning of the detrimental effects of welfare.
Do you think the expose’ genre comes across as too accusatory?
Does this sound like an article you would stop and read if it caught your attention?
I really like the idea of doing an expose. It makes the essay/report much more personal. It will allow you to have a first-hand observation of the effects of welfare on children and help you reach your audience. I think you should gear your project towards a specific audience. Maybe write a letter to the parents in the county (parish?) where you did your observation. I do not think your expose will be accusatory, but enlightening. It will show people a side to welfare that they might not have considered. I certainly would be interested in seeing the effects that welfare has on children. Your project sounds very interesting and would catch my attention.
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