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My primary audience is management and human resource personnel in decision-making positions with regard to mental health care in the workplace. An implicit audience is my instructor.
The main explicit audience values company profit above all else. This includes providing a healthy work atmosphere that is conduce to profit. My instructor values the educational development of my writing processes, including recognizing rhetorical situations and critical thinking.
The primary audience will be expecting hard numbers as evidence of my arguments. They will also value examinations of specific documented cases of the situations of other companies. This will provide them with a reference with which to gauge their own situations. This evidence is available from my current library research sources. My instructor will expect evidence my writing development in the construction of my argument, diction, and response to rhetorical situation.
While costs of depression in the workplace have been slowly gaining more attention, many employers are still unaware of the magnitude of these costs. I have no idea of my instructor's opinion as to my writing development, so I will include as much evidence as possible.
DEVELOPING EVALUATION CRITERIA
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My primary audience is management and human resource personnel in decision-making positions with regard to mental health care in the workplace. An implicit audience is my instructor. The primary audience wants to know how depression is effecting their bottom line, while my instructor wants to know how my writing proficiency is progressing.
The purpose of the research project is to bring to employers' attention the significant costs of depression in their employee bodies. To achieve this, I must show that depression in employees creates financial costs. Another purpose is to demonstrate my writing proficiency to my instructor. To fulfill this purpose, I have to convey a coherent, concise, effective researched argument.
This is a very contemporary issue of the mental health industry. New research and perspectives are being developed every year. Because of this, it is important that I include recent studies and information to persuade my audiences.
My research question has narrowed considerably. It began as "How can the effect of depression in the workplace be minimized?", then narrowed to "How can employers minimize costs of depression?", finally ending up (very recently) at "Does employee depression create significant costs for employers?". The narrower research question is actually easier to answer concisely, as I need to include a smaller amount of my broader research relevant to the previous questions. Discussions of cost-benefits for specific treatment methods are now tangentially relevant.
Some orientation information such as the general nature of depression, its frequency, and why its symptoms are costly must be included to set the situation for the paper.
Although cost-benefits of specific treatment methods are interesting, I have decided to eliminate them from the scope of the paper.
EVALUATING TYPES OF RESOURCES
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My audience would find this to be a reliable source, as it is a recent peer-reviewed article in a reputable journal of a relevant industry. Information essential to the audience is included in the bibliographic citation, however, including the author's association with Johns Hopkins would probably increase credibility. All information needed to relocate the exact source is included in the reference citation. This source provides support for some of my central points, and my rhetorical situation demands that I incorporate it into my project.
CLUSTERING
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