Purpose:
My motivation in creating such instructions comes from experience with already being a cheerleader but wanting to be better. I hope the audience feels at ease about my concept and gives it a chance, no matter their previous experience with doing a back-handspring. I know how hard it can be learning to tumble for the first time when you are on a team that already posses certain skills. It’s stressful and often confusing because you hear so many wrong and right ways to perform the task and everyone learns at different paces. I hope with my instructions, I can portray the correct and graceful ways to do a back-handspring. The best possible outcome would be that it is actually affective and proven to be safe. The worst possible outcome is that someone could get injured if the instructions are not followed exactly and properly. My communication should hopefully be clear and direct, and also express the difficulty and dangers. With that being said my worst possible outcome should be rare, if at all. My main goal is to show cheerleaders with little experience how to learn to tumble and feel apart of the team.
Audience:
Characteristics:
*Middle class socio-economic status (semi-important)
*Females (important)
*Ages 13 to 17 (fairly important)
*Predominately Caucasian (not important)
*Physically fit (very important)
*Straight in orientation (not important)
*Determined
*Anxious
* Persistent
*Calm
*intimidated
Conditions:
*The audience will be in a determined mood because acquiring such a skill is imperative to being recognized as a good cheerleader.
*The audience will be interested in my communication because it will be interactive and visual. The audience might be disinterested in the amount of time it takes to actually acquire the skill.It varies for different people, and that may be discouraging
Context:
Occasion
The source of communication is useful at any point in the year but especially during the months of June and July (summer, and two months prior to the start of a new cheer season). This information would be something searched and not easily stumbled upon; therefore, the listeners would be more attentive. Specific occasion, such as cheerleading tryouts/placements would be reason to motivate communication.
Place
The communication will most likely take place online through a series of videos, pictures, and list of instructions. The audience will be wherever they have access to a computer. I a printer friendly version of the instructions will also be included to take to wherever they participate in such instruction.
Strategies:
I wan to help and encourage young females to safely learn a stand back-handspring. Through a series of easy-to-comprehend videos and pictures I hope to show the audience that learning a tumbling skill can be fun, fast, and efficient.
Medium:
My medium will be a webpage or a video. I lean towards the website because I can appeal to all learning styles by having listed instructions and visuals. The video will show you in detail; however might be hard for some to comprehend. Having a website makes it more accessible to cheerleaders who search for ways (online) to learn tumbling.
Arrangement:
The arrangement of my instructional set will be simple. I plan on using numbered steps with pictures demonstrating each of the steps. At the end of all of the steps, I will have a video demonstrating what a back-handspring looks like in full and slow motion.
Testing:
To test my instructions I plan to take them to a local cheerleading gym and see the response I get from beginners as well advanced tumblers. I would make a checklist of things that I should and shouldn’t do.
Dos
Be clear
Exhibit safety
Be understandable
Use cheer lingo
Don'ts
Assume too much of the audience
Put participants in danger
In-class critique
1. I feel like you most thoroughly covered the purpose element of your instruction set.
2. I feel like you least covered the strategies element of your instruction set.
3. It connects to what I am doing in that it is a physical activity for people.
4. If the context changed to like a summer camp or a PE class, the instructions would have to more thorough.
*You did a good job of going
*You did a good job of going through and breaking down each rhetoric elements, once again your purpose and audience elements stand out in my mind because you take the time to go through each like thinking about the best/worst outcomes in the purpose section.
*Based on one of your strategies for making tumbling safe and fun point out in the video point out the supervision of the tumbler for safety, and maybe consider adding some music as background noise to convey a feeling of fun.
*We both are thinking about doing a video to better explain our instructions based on the needs of our audiences.
*Think about finding someone that represents your audience to do the tumbling in the video. This will help the video be easy to relate to.