Informative Genre

For my informative genre, I decided to talk about the situation that happened recently where nearly 2,000 teachers currently working in public schools in Providence, Rhode Island were each issued a layoff notice in response to a $40 million budget shortfall. I'm going to use this information as the center piece to my informative genre and relate it toward the lack of jobs there are for students majoring in education and the effect that the case in Providence can have on these students and on teachers in general. For my research I'm going to look into education in the past and how this budget shortfall can affect kids in the public schools in Providence, and college student's as well. I also will be interviewing college students to see reaction to the lay offs, and what their plans are for the future. I will additionally be interviewing people who work in the school system as well to see what their take is on the lack of jobs within their department. 
All in all, the lay off issue in Providence will unfold the many issues that people are experiencing within education worldwide.

Introduction

My name is Sarah, and I am a Junior double majoring in Communications and Public Relations, with a minor in English. I've never actually experienced public writing before in such a sense that I've never written about something that I have felt so strong towards. However, this public writing class has definitely opened a new interest for me, and I have learned that public writing is extremely important for our community. I enrolled in this class because I needed to take it for my major in PR, and I have come to the realization in why this class would be required for PR. Last semester, I took a writing in electronic environments class, and we had to create a blog for the class as well, so I have some experience with blogging, and I find it to be a very interesting way to express your thoughts. In Public Relations, it is necessary to engage in social media such as blogging, twitter and Facebook in order to represent the brand of a company and gain credibility. I currently am torn with what I want to do when I graduate- although, I'm hoping that my experience in working this summer will help me. This summer I was offered two internships where  I could either intern for a news station working in their news media department, or I could work for a radio/advertising company specializing in promotional events. Public writing is important in both cases and I feel that this writing class is preparing me to be outspoken which is required for both communications and PR.