Michael OBrien

Ms. Caruso
UWRT 1103
March 4, 2016

Inquiry Product Defense Paper

All across the world there is an estimated 7.5 billion human beings. estimated number
there can be the assumption that there is a large amount of children making up the world. Now
kids being kids. A lot of these accidents however result in so sort of brain trauma. This trauma is
most commonly known as a concussion. The long term effects of these traumatic injuries are not
known however. This is the information that scientists all around the world have made great
strides towards in the last decade. There is still not a total understanding of the effects that
concussions have upon kids.
As one can most likely infer from the nature of my products, they are brochures that seek
to educate the reader on the topic of not only what a concussion is but how a concussion can
effect children. They are designed with the premise of one brochure covering the brain while it is
concussed and the other with the idea of it representing a normally functioning brain. Due to the
basis of which these brochures are designed, the ideas that they represent show the difference in
the effects that a concussion can have on the brain. The difference in the two brochures is the fact
that the one representing a normally functioning brain is filled with an array of different styles of
type including bolded and italicized words, usage of pictures coupled with the use of background
images whether they be color blocks or other pictures. While the other brochure which represents

the brain which has sustained a concussion is very simple and clean looking. To be frank it lacks
all of the things that make its partner jump up off the page and grab the readers attention. It is a
simple product that consists of basic text boxes and plain lettering. In comparison to its partner it
is a basic brochure that one would most likely simply ignore until the information that it contains
is revealed. This tandem is made to be placed within a pediatricians waiting room or it is
presented to the parents of a child who have been concussed in order to help them understand
what is happening with their child.
The information that these brochures contain is very similar to the information that is
presented within my Inquiry Path Project. The main pieces that these brochures cover are how
the brain reacts to a concussion. Since this is a two-piece project the information is split up
between the two pamphlets I had the ability to split the information in any way that I saw fit. In
this case I found it to be fitting to have a comparison between the two states of the brain. These
two states as you could probably guess are a concussed brain vs. a normally functioning brain.
With this set up I was able to introduce all of the data that I wanted to in a simple and
understandable fashion.
The information that I presented to my readers was mainly what a concussion is and how
the effects of a concussion can affect the rest of the body. The majority of the two pamphlets
contain data or explanations for things relevant to these topics.
Finally, I have found that this was a lot harder than I expected it to be due to the small
amount of space that I had available on my brochures and the large amount of data that I
possessed both from the earlier paper and from what I gathered for this experiment. So due to
this I had to pick and choose what data and ideas I wanted to use and how to present them. That
was another problem that I had during the duration of this project. The ways in which I wanted to

present all the things that I knew did not mesh well and I had to change the way in which I had to
present them. Overall I feel like this project could have been better if I had not had to change my
idea of products halfway through and rework almost everything about it.

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