My Rhetorical Action Plan

I have created a rhetorical action plan to put on paper what the rhetorical situation of my project 3 will be. First, I discuss who the audience is because my project will have to address them implicitly or explicitly in a way that connects with them. Second, deciding on which genre I want to emulate in project 3 is important so I will draw inspiration from the sources I have already researched. Lastly, I brainstorm about what reactions, positive or negative, my audeince will have to my rendition of project 3. I explain all of this in detail below.

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Audience

• My audience will have a general knowledge of nuclear fusion and the struggles it has encountered over its long history. I can safely assume that the audience will know about the vast potential nuclear fusion has and the difficulties nuclear fusion scientist and engineers have faced in creating a sustained nuclear fusion reaction. My audience will also hold the belief that nuclear fusion is not a waste of time or money but just a difficult problem that needs to be solved.
• My audience holds the ideal that protecting the energy future of the world is an important matter and that doing so through sustainable energy sources is the best way forward. Their values are to cultivate a future for their children and their children's children that is secure. Finally, my audience likes to stay informed regarding scientific advancements and where to wisely invest their money for the greatest return.
• Numbers will persuade my audience as well as quotes from important people that they look up to or base their investments off of. By taking the large amounts of money being spent on nuclear fusion startups and large internationally funded experiment and weighing it with the benefits of a nuclear fusion reactor expressed numerically in many journals and website articles I can accurately portray my point to my audience clearly.
• Pictures and design diagrams of various nuclear fusion reactor would be interesting to the reader because it would describe the difference between different types of nuclear fusion reactors. Also, graphs of costs and energy outputs of different types of fusion reactors would help the audience engage positively with the text.
• The purpose of the argument is challenge the belief that nuclear fusion is a waste of time and money. I want to engage my readers in a thought provoking way so that they might take an interest in nuclear fusion like past generations did. By providing my readers with engaging material and explaining a successful future for nuclear fusion my audience will leave with a new opinion about nuclear fusion.

Genre

• Example 1 (Opinion Piece)
• The function of this genre is to establish an opinion about a subject, explain it and then convince its readers why it is true. This style is designed to express the author's opinion as well as back it up with evidence to explain why this opinion in the author's mind is the correct one.
• This is used in blog posts as well as an editorial write-up about a specific subject that the edition is revolving around. 
• I would use my opinion to appeal to the emotions of my audience to convince them that my opinion is correct. Also, using logos when writing for my audience will allow me to use the facts available to convince my readers of my opinion.
• This genre doesn't use a lot of graphs but pictures are used sometimes to add context to my opinion.
• An opinion piece has an informal style to it but keeps the writing formal. It really depends on the website the opinion piece is published on. For instance, a piece published on a blog is more informal than an opinion piece published for the New York Times.
• Example 2 (Report Journalism)
• The function of this genre is inform its readers about a subject giving facts from all sides of the subject. Inherently, this type of writing has no explicit mentions of an opinion from the author but some articles do have a slight lean in their writing or style of presenting the material.
• This style is used at all major new organizations to create articles that inform and interest their readers.
• Using logos to connect with audience is the way because this highly formal style of writing needs a logical approach to connect with its audience.
• Using graphs to display the data is the best way to visually represent my subject. Also, specific relevant pictures is a good way to display the subject in an appealing way.
• The style of Report Journalism is formal because it is written for an audience expecting to hear the facts and very little opinion based writing. The facts are to be written in an expeditious manner that accurately retells the subject so the reader can gain the maximum understanding.

Positive Reactions

• Increased exuberance in nuclear fusion and use links provided in text to fund nuclear fusion projects.
• Interest in nuclear fusion grows and other webpages like the ones linked in the text and others get more views as my audience wants to learn more and more.
• My audience sees the need for more money to be diverted to nuclear fusion and petitions representatives to do so.

Negative Reactions

• The startups in the text are based off of failed experiments done by other scientists decades before with a lot more money backing them up. What do these scientists hope to do but pocket the venture capitol when the reactor fails to work.
• These startups are taking a focused approach to each style of reactor they specailize in. Using that data from earlier failures is actually a positive because the engineers can work on fixing the flaws in the design to get closer to the goal of creating a working nuclear fusion reactor. Each of these companies are being supported by heavyweights of buisness like the founder of Paypal, Yahoo and Microsoft so the founders of these companies have their reputations to lose if they steal these venture capitol dollars.
• Billions and billions of dollars are being spent on nuclear fusion experiments when that money could be used to subsidize solar panels construction and tax incentives for Americans to put solar panels on their roofs.
• Billions of dollars have been spent of solar panel subsidizes but a lot subsidy money did go to putting solar panels on the roofs of the American middle class but to startups who miss managed the money and ended up losing a majority of it in the hopes of creating solar farms. An example of this mismanagement of tax payer dollars is here.
• Nuclear fusion is a time drain and money drain it has never worked and these new experiments will not work either.
• Nuclear fusion has not been properly funded for the past 30 years and perhaps longer as stated in numerous articles therefore and progress that has not been made yet could of been made if the foresight was there from the beginning. Nuclear fusion is an extremely complicated problem but the fact that such power lies within humanity's grasp is to big a reward to simply give up when the monetary and timely cost is high. It is worth the energy, time and monetary support because nuclear fusion can solve humanity's rising energy needs.