This audio essay is entitled
“Broadway to Sandy: The Show is Back On.” It is about the fact that even in the
midst of a tragedy, Broadway is a symbol of New York and must be kept on for
the sake of hope. Sandy, the most recent hurricane on the east coast, has
created many obstacles for the cast and crew of Broadway to get to work, but
these people are dedicated, and they do get there, no matter what it takes.
Some workers bike, some walk, some rent cars. Audio essays have specific
features and needs in the same way an essay does. There is a thesis, outside
sourced information in the form of interview, outside sources from factual
information, some dialogue, and an overall point to the audio essay. This essay is written informally since it is
an interview. There is more detail in the audio essay rather than the written
article itself. In this particular article, the writer views himself as a
reporter, using factual information to portray the coming together of Broadway
in the midst of a tragedy and conducting interviews with people of Broadway and
people heading to view Broadway to support the ideal that in Broadway, the show
must always go on. Numbers are used to show how long it usually takes someone
to get from Manhattan to Broadway and how long that takes after Sandy as well
as many other time related changes to travel because of Sandy. Numbers are used
to show the loss of money from the hurricane before Sandy, Irene. All of the
quotations are quotes from people that the writer interviewed. The images are
of the aftermath of Sandy: a flooded road, someone skateboarding instead of
sitting in traffic, and a couple not so crowded street pictures of Broadway. I
think the writer chose this kind of informal evidence because it helps the
listener connect on a more personal level instead of just stating statistics
and formal information. The organization of this document is very casual. Its
core is mostly dialogue of examples of how people are helping Broadway keep the
show going on after Sandy. This type of organization is often in newspaper
articles, online blogs, and other simple writings similar to those. There are
citations under the photos and all the quotations have either an introduction
or a follow up with who said each thought. Even though there is some factual
information, there are no formal citations at the end of the article indicating
where the factual information about money loss or damage done comes from; all
of the citations are from the people who were interviewed.
My topic for project three is going
to be my major, speech and hearing sciences.
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