Website Audience Proposal

Elizabeth White

English 102

Instructor: Richard Samuelson

6 March 2011

Website Audience Proposal:

1 &2: The audience for my website will most likely be no younger than eighteen years of age to any age of interest. The information given in the website will be most helpful to those who are seeking help in some way. Audience members may consist of friends wanting to help a family struggling with substance abuse. The reader may be a parent seeking help and information on the impacts substance abuse has on a family and hopefully searching for a way to change the problem and get better. Lastly, this website could be very useful for adoptive parents or guardians who may be caring for a child whose family was involved in some kind of substance abuse or maybe even has birth defects cause by drugs or alcohol, to better understand and care for the child’s unique circumstances. So, technically, the audience my website is geared to will be anyone qualified to understand the depth and seriousness of the research topic given.

3. I envision my audience to be fairly perceptive if not totally enthralled by the topic and facts provided in my website. I hope for them to be oriented to my questions and concerns, and I believe they will be, granted, if they are interested and willing. My topic tends to cover some “tough stuff”, so not everyone may be comfortable or interested in hearing what I, or the research, have to say.

4. My topic conversation mainly consists of research that has been proven about the physiological, emotional and psychological impact on a family when involved in substance abuse. Not only do I cover my topic and question, but I also provide a source for readers who are seeking help. A couple of my sources do collide due to differences in opinion. For example, one of my sources focuses on the damage that can be done to a child because of the mothers decision to drink or do drugs while pregnant; while another one of my sources attacks that very stigma put on mothers and pregnant women and provides empirical evidence that the father can be just as responsible for any kind of birth defects as the mother. Leaving both sources very informative but very different stories.

5. To strengthen my web medium I will use bold titles and bullets to make reading easier and more accessible to my audience. I will also focus on keeping my information short, sweet and to the point without doing the research or my voice any injustice. Strong yet subtle colors will be helpful and easy to read for the audiences’ eyes. Usually colors like light blue or green can really set up the whole feeling and response for a website, making it easy for the reader to stay interested. Finally, I will be sure to use videos and pictures to capture my readers’ attention.

6. Substance abuse can be very detrimental to the user and the people around them. Although the effects of drugs and alcohol on a family are not always the same, they tend to be a familiar and repetitive result leading to grave setbacks physiologically, emotionally and psychologically for everyone involved. But there is always hope and there is always help. I was brought to this conclusion by the research that I have done and personal experience. I feel very strongly about this problem and I’m not going to sugar coat it for anyone. Many families struggle with substance abuse and many of them come out unsuccessful and I believe all they need is the facts. These families just need a little push in the right direction to get better and be healthy!