Blog Post 4: Plans for Revision & Peer Response

 After completing the rough draft of my proposal, which was a simple outline of what content I want to add in my final draft, I got some helpful feedback. The feedback given regarded my research questions and research methods section. My peer reviewer said that I have a great start for my final draft, but I do have a few plans for revising. First, I want to move my extensive literature review into my final draft. My literature review has some feedback from my professor, so once I make some corrections and adjustments, I will be able to add it into my final draft. I also plan on moving my introduction from my literature review to the very beginning of my proposal and then creating a new introduction for my literature review that specifies the layout of what readers can expect before reading the review. Next, and most important, I want to add more of a rhetorical analysis. By adding a specific rhetorical theory when looking at case briefs, the audience will get more of the PTW emphasis feel to my proposal. With these edits, and the other minor grammatical edits I plan on making throughout my paper, I believe I am on the right track!  Plus, it will go right along with my current capstone research! 

Blog Post 3: Research Gap

Since I have narrowed down my topic, I created a literature review titled "The Rhetoric in Advocacy within Law." I decided to explore how advocacy is rhetoric, and I am using the office of Guardian ad Litem (a specific branch of family law) as an example of advocacy because the attorneys are advocates that use rhetoric every single day. As I narrowed down my research, I have found that there is a research gap between the PTW (Professional and Technical Writing) journals and my topic itself. For example, I found plenty of sources in the PTW journals that relate to advocacy and others that relate to rhetoric, but I had a hard time finding sources that related to advocacy being rhetoric. I also could not find any PTW journal articles on the office of Guardian ad Litem, so connecting all my ideas together has been a bit difficult. However, as I continue writing and forming an outline, I see that things are starting to connect. Connecting this research gap hasn't been easy, but I know in doing so, research will be formed on topics that haven't been written about before.