Creating a Web Site about the Cherokee Removal in 1838 :: Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis For my final project, I decided to work on a functional Web site, one that has a purpose. It's part of another project I'm working on with the Multicultural Archive of Georgia. The purpose of my final project is a pedagogical one. It is simply a helpful, educational site on the Web. For the most part, my project focuses on four maps that come from the Hargrett Rare Manuscript Library. Most of the maps focus on the state of Georgia, with an emphasis on the former territories of the Eastern Cherokee nation. My site takes these four maps and analyses them in the context of the Cherokee Removal in 1838. The site's analysis takes several dimensions that are only possible on the Internet. First and foremost, it offers visitors access to these four maps. In just seconds of loading time, visitors get a glimpse of these maps on a page without any interference. The viewers can see these rare maps without the hassle of going to the library and can access the maps at anytime they wish, day or night. My site and the Hargrett Rare Manuscript site provide this convenience, but more than just access my site offers context. For each of the four maps, I also provide a brief, but interesting and factually correct historically background for the maps. They emphasize the conditions of the Cherokee around the year each map was produced. Again providing this kind of information is only practical in the web. For one delivering such facts together in a library would be complicated and impossible. While no textbook, though it may offer the historical facts related to the Cherokee, could also deliver the details of the maps as well as a hypertext page can. While not featured in the current draught of my site, in the future lesson plans will be made available to take advantage of the Web's didactic possibilities. With the maps and the historical contexts, the lesson plan will be designed for high school students and teachers. The aim of which would be to cut out the research time for teachers. With their busy schedules its tough to come up with an interesting topic, on say the Cherokee, then research it, then implement an assignment. With my web site it will all be ready and available-because of the Internet-at their fingertips. As the website exists now, however, I have offered a draft of my proposal to the undergraduate research program at UGA, which presents my plan for the final version of this website. Creating a Web Site about the Cherokee Removal in 1838 :: Rhetorical Analysis Rhetorical Analysis For my final project, I decided to work on a functional Web site, one that has a purpose. It's part of another project I'm working on with the Multicultural Archive of Georgia. The purpose of my final project is a pedagogical one. It is simply a helpful, educational site on the Web. For the most part, my project focuses on four maps that come from the Hargrett Rare Manuscript Library. Most of the maps focus on the state of Georgia, with an emphasis on the former territories of the Eastern Cherokee nation. My site takes these four maps and analyses them in the context of the Cherokee Removal in 1838. The site's analysis takes several dimensions that are only possible on the Internet. First and foremost, it offers visitors access to these four maps. In just seconds of loading time, visitors get a glimpse of these maps on a page without any interference. The viewers can see these rare maps without the hassle of going to the library and can access the maps at anytime they wish, day or night. My site and the Hargrett Rare Manuscript site provide this convenience, but more than just access my site offers context. For each of the four maps, I also provide a brief, but interesting and factually correct historically background for the maps. They emphasize the conditions of the Cherokee around the year each map was produced. Again providing this kind of information is only practical in the web. For one delivering such facts together in a library would be complicated and impossible. While no textbook, though it may offer the historical facts related to the Cherokee, could also deliver the details of the maps as well as a hypertext page can. While not featured in the current draught of my site, in the future lesson plans will be made available to take advantage of the Web's didactic possibilities. With the maps and the historical contexts, the lesson plan will be designed for high school students and teachers. The aim of which would be to cut out the research time for teachers. With their busy schedules its tough to come up with an interesting topic, on say the Cherokee, then research it, then implement an assignment. With my web site it will all be ready and available-because of the Internet-at their fingertips. As the website exists now, however, I have offered a draft of my proposal to the undergraduate research program at UGA, which presents my plan for the final version of this website.