PB3A

For WP3, I have chosen to write about drug safety. I stumbled upon the article “Is MDMA (‘Ecstasy’) Neurotoxic in Humans? An Overview of Evidence and of Methodological Problems in Research” by H. Valerie Curran and decided that the both younger and older audiences would benefit from being exposed to the effects of hard drugs. As I outline the way in which I will present the vital information tailored in the original academic scholarly article I have to consider the specific conventions that are associated with the various audiences and their relationship with corresponding genres. Some genres that would attract children are children’s books, fictional novels, fairytales, and cartoon movies. On the other hand, some genres that adults encounter include non-fiction novels, advertisements, resumes, e-mails, text messages, business cards, movies, and social media comments and statuses. In regards to my Writing Project 3, I have selected to translate the mentioned scholarly-article into a script of a play for children and a script of a radio talk show for adults.

I believe that through a play, I could deliver the message that hard drugs should be avoided. I will be able to present the topics of the scholarly article in a manner that won’t intimidate the young audience. Essentially, my goal is to depict to children and to adults the negative effects of hard drugs such as MDMA that are described in the scholarly article. I believe that creating a script for a children’s play would allow me to accomplish this because I could use a combination of tactics such as colloquialism, humor, and a variety of tones to help the children understand a parallel message to the one in the scholarly article. Inversely, I believe that translating the play into a radio talk show script would enable me to make the information depicted in the scholarly article clearer for adults because I could essentially expose the statistics and facts mentioned in the scholarly article and present them in an organized manner that would be easier to understand. I will probably do so by having a pretend interview with the author of the scholarly-article on the radio. The pretend author who will be a neurobiologist will then share her knowledge, or technically, the knowledge and information gathered from the scholarly article and share it on the radio along with her concern for users of MDMA and the future implications of its widespread use. MDMA according to this scholarly article is an extremely pertinent hard drug. It has become increasingly popular in recent years. Although most scientists understand that correlation is not necessary causation, there has been a correlation between the increasing popularity of music festival attendees and the amount of hard drugs that are surfacing in the United States. Even though the tendency of people to go to more music festivals does not cause them to take hard drugs such as MDMA, the fact that these music festivals provide their attendees with the opportunity and setting to be under the influence of these hard drugs contributes to the belief that music festivals have some type of influence on the prevalence of the hard drugs that are surfacing throughout the United States.