Content Outline

In this blog post I will address the structure of project 2, in essence this post will outline what I hope this project will consist of and how it will address the topic at hand. This will be a very rough outline and may be subject to change as the project gets developed more and more.

The opening section of this project will consist of a voice-over entrance introducing myself and my interviewees as well as a little of the project goals themselves. This introduction will be done in audio contexts because I am planning to make this project as a podcast. Thus the intro will be fairly informal but will not deviate from genre conventions.

The body sections of this podcast will be centered around the recorded interviews from the professors and the workers in the Civil Engineering field. The first section will be the interview with Professor Wu, a Transportation Engineer at the University of Arizona. The second section will be centered primarily around an interview with Professor Papajohn, who until this year was a practicing Civil Engineer with the Pima County Department of Transportation. The last major section will cover an informational interview with Professor Fleishman and talk about the way that ideas are communicated in the professional and the private lives of Civil Engineers.

The closing section will be composed of a rehashing of the covered ideas in the interviews as well as a thank you to all those people who contributed time and effort to this project. The section will be brief but necessary.

Again the major piece of evidence for each section will be the firsthand accounts from each one of the interviewees. Since each section will not be structured by topic but rather by ideas from each professor, there will be much evidence pilled into one segment of each section. This evidence is plainly presented to the reader in each segment through audio splices of the interview.

All of this evidence is based off the questions that I, the author, composed and asked each interviewee with the final project in mind. Thus each bit of evidence is geared to answer the main question of the project, how is writing or communication used in the Civil Engineering field? The evidence will prove that communication and specifically writing is absolutely pivotal in the Civil Engineering field, without it the field could not function.

This evidence is important because it answers the major question at hand. Each question was written with a specific interest into the project, with all the interviews total I anticipate that there will be enough evidence to answer the question sufficiently.

The conclusion will also cover the concept of why the idea of communication matters in the field of civil engineering. This will cover the several genre examples that I researched and explain how writing was used in each example. Specifically an explanation of a powerpoint and an example of a technical guide.