Cheyenne Mead English 3450

The topic that I have landed on is The Communication of Scientific Findings Related to Climate Change to the General Public." While looking for sources for my topic, I realized that there are less sources about it than I would have thought. I also noticed that most of the sources I found are from the past 25 years. So it is clearly a newly sprouted topic in the technical communication/communication community. I think that this is a good thing because that means that we are going to start talking about it more and more which I deem definitely necessary. The 10 tentative sources I found cover a variety of different methods of communicating climate change science to the public. Spoel, Philippa, et al. “Public Communication of Climate Change Science: Engaging Citizens Through Apocalyptic Narrative Explanation.”  Technical Communication Quarterly , vol. 18, no. 1, Dec. 2008, pp. 49–81.  EBSCOhost ,  https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250802437382 . Richards, Daniel P., and Erin E. J...

 I have a few ideas for some topics that I am interested in at the moment. However, I want to make them more personalized so if anyone has any ideas for me please let me know. The first topic that I think would be interesting to write about is testing how quickly different people from different age groups can locate a specific feature on a certain app or website. I think that would be interesting because I would be able to observe how differently aged people interact with a website or application. The second topic I have is to test the memorability of different highlight colors. I thought I could do this by writing different paragraphs  and highlight different words of the same group. Maybe I could highlight one verb or one adjective in each paragraph and ask the participant to write or type which word they think was highlighted without checking.