Project Assessment Essay Translating visual claims into linguistic claims was a bit challenging for us. After a lot of thinking, we were finally successful in implementing what we wanted for our visual. We decided to do a poster for our visual because it was the easiest way to display the importance of the topic by incorporating facts. Our visual portion of our Advocacy Project supports our claims because we used our research that we found and known facts on the poster to convey why Public Preschool is so important for our children today. The heading on our visual says “Preschool” and has money under the word. The money shows that preschool should be funded and more money is needed for public preschool, which is all of our beliefs. In ourdesign plan we noted that we wanted to use our medium and arrangement to trulycapture our audience’s attention. We believe we were successful in that because we used the “primary colors” on our visual because those colors are mostrepresented with younger children. The colors are meant to grab our audience’s attention so they will read the important facts that are on the poster. Overall, we believe that our linguistic claims were vividly shown through our visual. Our understanding of the past and how public preschools are not offered in some states helped us understand the situation that we were trying to change through our Advocacy Project. We understand how important funding is needed for our young children and early learners for them to have a chance at a successful educational career. Our audience that we stated in our design plan is anyone who has children and wants them to get the best education possible. The most important audience is people who cannot afford a good preschool for their children, because public preschool would be free for them to attend. Our visual appeals specifically to the audience we identified because the colors are very appealing to parents, the picture at the top says “preschool”, and because of the facts we used on our visual. We believe that the facts on our visual are what will draw our audience in the most. Knowing why preschool is important for their children will get them more interested in advocating for public preschool for all children. We wanted to make sure that our visual wasn’t too wordy and that it was organized so our audience would want to read it. Overall, we believe that the colors, placement of pictures, and the facts are what will persuade our audience the most. When implementing our design plan, we read over what our audience was, what the context of our advocacy was, arrangement and the medium. These were important parts to implement from our design plan because this is what matters most when you are advocating something. With our visual, we had to use trial and error for what we actually wanted to implement. At first we originally planned to do a poster, then we decided to do a poster and a video, then we went back to just the poster. We felt as though our poster was a strong enough advocacy point and that it displayed our view points well. We chose to use colors that represent preschoolers, which we chose the primary colors; red, blue, and yellow. We chose to use a “playful and inviting” looking font to appeal to our audience. In our visual we display ethos, pathos, and logos. The appeal that is strongest in our visual is logos. Logos is strongest because the research displays why preschool is important and what the President’s plan is to implement public preschool which is used to show the effectiveness of supporting evidence. Our pathos is shown through the pictures used of preschool children having a graduation, and our title saying“Preschool” with money under it meaning it needs to be funded. This is emotional appealing because parents will see the true importance behind the need for funding for public preschool. Lastly, ethos is shown through our medium because of the colors we used and the pictures representing preschool. The most difficult part of the visual argument was that we planned on doing a lot (almost too much) in a small amount of time. There were plenty of changes and revisions we had to make in order to get our point across in the time allotted. We originally did not plan on adding many pictures or links to other informational websites on our Weebly site, but we thought that it was a helpful and important piece to have on our site. As far as any changes in processes, I think we stuck to the same routine. The most successful and effective aspect of our visual was being able to use facts and pictures to come together so well. Project management for this project was something that had to be established from the first day that we were all assigned the project. We all work together well, so it was no problem trying to decide how to split up the work. We mostly did our work outside of class, but when we did have workshop days we would work on the project. Things we did included; fixing any mistakes we had in the annotated bibliography, or we just simply worked on the visual for our site, and the other aspects on the site: the extra pictures, links etc. We would each find something that we liked and we showed the other group members and got their opinions on it before we added it to the site. For each part of the Advocacy Project Erica deliberated assigning different parts to do and we all had our parts to type up and then send back to Erica to put together. Overall, we do not think that we would have done anything differently for this project. We all believe that our collaborative efforts came together well and it shows through our Advocacy page and our visual. It was effective to work in groups because we were able to bounce off ideas from one another to come up with the final product.