Instructions: Compose a critical reflection in which you reflect on your purpose, stance, audience, and choice of genre/media. Drawing on research will enable you to connect the features of your chosen media to your purpose, stance, and audience. Remember, you are only permitted to recap/briefly inform the reader of your argument ( the argument is the harmful mental effects social media has on people especially the youth) in the introduction to this reflective essay. The thesis of this essay will focus on why you decided to use the chosen genre/media that you did. For example, "I choose to use PowerPoint because it allows me to effectively remediate my argument using images, sounds, and transitions." Then, the body of your reflective essay would be about you showing (describing) the images, sounds, transitions while also speaking to the process you took to make each slide.

Also decide whether you would use powerpoint, imovie, windows moviemaker, etc if you were to make a remediation of reflection essay.

Essay Topic: The mental effect social media has on people, especially the youth.

I. Introduction

A. Recap your argument from project two

B. Transition to talking about remediation

C. Give thesis statement

II. Body

A. Reason 1 (from thesis)

1. Evidence and explanation

2. Evidence and explanation

*Repeat above for next body paragraphs*

III. Conclusion

A. Restate thesis

B. Discuss value of your argument, value of remediation, etc.

Sample Essay: Remediation: Breastfeeding Support for Working Mothers

Breastfeeding has been around since the beginning of humankind and is the natural way that a woman provides nutrients and nourishment to her child. Breastmilk has been deemed by doctors as the best form of nutrition for a child's health and has been on the rise again since the 1970s. Due to its long notion of being a private act between a mother and child, public breastfeeding has come under extreme criticism over recent years. Times have changed to where mothers now also must work for their families to financially survive. While there has been a recent rise in support for breastfeeding from the public, women still lack the support from their places of employment. In order to be more supportive, workplaces must be educated on the particular areas of breastfeeding; these areas include the act of breastfeeding, the space requirements, and the physical toll taken on mothers. Using a PowerPoint presentation would best help illustrate those key factors with the use of pictures, slide transitions, and videos. People can use many forms of media in a PowerPoint; one form that I chose was pictures.

PowerPoints are very useful tools when it comes to educating a group of people on a certain subject. According to Vishwekar, "PowerPoint presentation has the ability to integrate text, pictures, and images. It has a great advantage and improves the educative value of the subject if it is prepared keeping target audience in mind" (Vishwekar et al 6327). Pictures allow an audience to see what it is that the author is talking about. Describing something with just words can help someone imagine what is being talked about. The use of pictures allows the audience to visually see what ever it is that's being explained to them. Part of my argument has to do with physical tolls that are taken on women while breastfeeding. I purposely used pictures so my audience can see those things that physically happen. One thing that happens often to a woman that breastfeeds is engorgement. I could explain to the audience that it is the breasts filling to capacity of breastmilk, leaving the woman's breasts rock hard and splintering in pain. Instead, with the use of PowerPoint, I chose to add pictures of a woman's breast that is engorged to allow the audience to see what this looks like and how it can be very uncomfortable and painful thing to have to go through while at work.

PowerPoints are known for its use of slide transitions. While presenting a PowerPoint, the presenter transitions through the various slides that were created in the hope of attracting the audience's attention. I used slide transition to allow my audience to be further interested in my presentation. I used timed and animated transition throughout my PowerPoint presentation. By using timed transitions, I was able to give each slide a certain amount of time that I felt necessary for the audience to absorb the information being presented. Some slides have a little more information that I felt needed to be seen longer to help strengthen my argument on the lack of support of breastfeeding. With my timed transitions, I allowed the audience to have enough time to read the hypothetical situation that I wanted them to imagine themselves going through. The animation of each slide transition added to the attention-grabbing effect that the audience needed to see. Having a normal transition to each slide would make the PowerPoint boring and less attention would be given to the overall presentation.

Videos give a visual and sometimes audio form of media to audiences. PowerPoints allows its users to add videos as another form of media into slides. Kamal Shigil did an assessment on the usefulness of PowerPoints and stated that, "An overall comparison of all the domains revealed an improvement in knowledge in each of them which could be attributed to the use of audio-visual aids" (187). In my argument, I state that workplaces lack knowing what breastfeeding is so I decided to add a video so my audience can see what the act of breastfeeding/pumping looks like. Having this visual aid helps the audience understand how pumping is something that is time consuming and must be done in a timely manner. Seeing what it takes to start the process of pumping and then the clean up afterwards also helps the audience see how much time it takes for this whole process.

Overall, the use of a PowerPoint presentation helped me show my audience my argument with the use of pictures, slide transitions and videos. Being able to have a presentation that allows users to add different types of multimedia helps engage the audience. While the audience is engaged, and their attention is focused on the presentation, they are better able to absorb the information presented to them. Allowing the audience to see those different forms of media helps them understand and visualize how hard it is for working mothers to have support from their workplaces.