Creating a Rhetorical Revision

Final Evaluative Experience
The argument I presented in my proposing a solution essay was the fact that TCU students are put into a bubble regarding real life preparation and cultural awareness. The specific audience I was writing towards was the faculty and department heads of the school, in order for them to consider my solutions to the issues; such as incorporating classes within majors that were more focused on what students would actually be doing after graduation, expanding study abroad programs, and increasing funding for more culturally aware events. 

In turning this into a visual ad for mainstream culture, I decided to switch my audience to the students of TCU. I made a prezi which can be interpreted as what would be a commercial broadcasted to the student body. The visual starts with an image of the TCU campus with the mission statement "to educate individuals to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens in the global community".  This mission statement is the core of how TCU defines itself, however they are not staying true to their identity and that is the center of my argument. The next image zooms out to show Texas and the location of TCU. The images surrounding the campus picture are ones that a student could relate to such as a classroom, backpack, and campus photo. This is meant to show that the campus life of TCU has encompassed the students within its confines, and that it lacks the awarneness of the outside world. When explaining the limited study abroad opportunities, the image then zooms over to europe, which shows the main locations for the study abroad trips within TCU curriculum. It then zooms out to the map of the entire world with the words "But what about the rest of the world?" visible. And finally, the last image is of graduation at TCU and the mission statement is repeated once again, except this time the words "global community" are highlighted. This form of a visual would be a brief, short and effective way to reach out to the student population of TCU to make them aware of the issue and the solutions that should be made. 

I learned several things through the rhetorical process of this visual to the problem and solution of TCU students remaining inside a bubble. In order to appeal to the students, I wanted to make it clear what the issues were, and provide images that would be effective and simple to the overall problem. By having the map setting, it was a visual way to show that the outside world can be neglected when we are within campus. By incorporating the mission statement, it was a way to show that the core values of TCU are something that they are not staying true to and that something needs to be done to solve this. The fact that the last image showed a TCU graduation and the specific words "global community" highlighted was a way to visually reach out to the students to further expand on the point that once we graduate, we should be prepared for the world.