Evaluate how the website is communicating science generally. This is a practice run in which you analyze and evaluate the rhetorical strategies of the website. You will then apply this analysis to your own choices as you research and write your white paper, revise, and reframe in a slide deck presentation format for different professional audiences. First consider the website as a whole: what is the rhetorical situation for this website? Who is the audience? What message is the website trying to convey? How well has that message been conveyed? Then take a closer look at the Earth Minute videos in the $$Explore$$ section of the website. Choose one video and determine how well it champions science based on the eleven tenets of championing science in our book. $($You do not have to address all eleven. Consider any elements the video accomplishes well, or any that it would benefit from incorporating more fully.$)$

Next, give your thoughts on the sometimes effective, more often muddled communication efforts described in $$Seattle$$s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York$$s Did Not.$$ While our class may have diverse political opinions, what$$s most relevant here is problems and obstacles faced by scientists as they tried to communicate effectively to the public as their knowledge of COVID changed in real time. I don$$t expect any of you to be able to debate politics or solve these problems, but it$$s important to identify them! They will be problems you face any time you$$re communicating scientific information.