Thursday, November 3, 2011
Identifying Popular Audience
The popular audience of the pharmacy discipline includes patients, parents, and also other professionals from the medical field that want to learn more about medications and prescriptions. The interest of patients include different brands of medication, whether it be generic, name brand or over-the-counter medications, and to know their risks and potential side effects. They want to know if there are any new medications that will replace their old that have less risks and side effects. They would want to know if there are any recalls or any long term effects that they need to be concerned about if they will be taking that certain drug for an extended period of tine. Parents of children will want to find out how different medications will affect their child, since some medications are not designed for children and are only intended for adults. The hot topic of accidental pediatric poisoning has a lot of parents concerned about dosage and keeping medications locked up and out of reach. Lastly, other professionals will want to know about new ground breaking medications there are so they can prescribe them to patients of their own. How all of this information would be communicated is through the news, online pharmacy sites, and also in articles of magazines and newspapers. Getting information out to the public can be difficult if it is not advertised on different websites and on television. The popular audience wouldn't understand statistics and graphs, so in order to effectively communicate information, it will have to be done in a simplistic form. Instead of case studies and journals, the information will have to be written in a short article, with minimal statistics, but all of the same main points and important information. This can be sometimes difficult since not everyone reading it has the same knowledge on the topic. Writing information in a short article with main ideas will be a great way that everyone can understand what is being presented without being overwhelmed with facts and statistics.
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Hello, I have reviewed your webpage for the popular audience, I enjoyed it. I like the table you included to show the number of overdoses throughout the years.
ReplyDeleteChelsea, I thought your website was very informative. I liked that you linked your information to the study done, which backed up your topic. I think you addressed the audience that you had in mind by making things hit home with people that have kids. Excellent job!
ReplyDeleteGood job with your website, it was easy to read and very appealing to your popular audience. You had just the right amount of sections and pictures, and did not overcrowd your page.
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