The audience for my profile are students who are considering working while they are in college and are still deciding if they want to work full time and support themselves to be independent and live away from home, or if they should just work part time a couple days a week in order to keep up with classes and school work. I think my audience will be interested because this is a major question that comes up for most college students that do not have wealthy families that are willing to pay for their education or enough scholarships to cover their tuition.

My article works to create a discourse community at UCBA because it is a problem/question that many college students struggle to answer. It gives an insight into a student who is working full time successfully and a graduate who was able to work full time successfully at this specific institution.

When I began drafting this profile, I actually restarted three different times because I kept wanting to change ideas on what I wanted to write about. When I finally settled on my final topic, I did my two interviews and wrote them as a form of dialogue. From there, I felt that I needed an introduction into what I was talking about so I inserted an intro to my topic. From then I went through and shrunk down the writing so that it wasn’t so many filler words and to not leave it as just dialogue I felt it needed a conclusion to end the profile summing it all up. Finally I found a picture that I believe captures what my profile is about as simply as possible.

I think that by itself the article could be ready for publication. I’ll be honest here and say that I don’t read many articles and I’ve never read The Activist so I have no idea or reference as to what a “ready” article would look like or be structured like. I struggled greatly in how to write this and how it should be set up and structured so I am not even sure if it is a profile at all. Personally, I would not like this to be published in The Activist.