<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is so timely and instructive, thank you, Sam.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Josie</font></font></span><div><u style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>></u><br><div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#cccccc"><b>JOSEPHINE WALWEMA</b></font><font color="#000000"> PhD. </font></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Program in Writing Across Campus<br></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:13pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Department of English | A101 Padelford Hall</font><br><font face="Lucida Fax, serif" style="font-weight:bold"></font></span></p></div><div><img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uw-s3-cdn/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2014/10/07213956/e-sig.gif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-9308" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-9308</a><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"><br></span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">This is a public, university-owned email account and subject to broad Open</font><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"> Records requests through the Freedom of Information Act. Correspondence of a personal nature should be sent to: <a href="mailto:jwalwema@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwalwema@gmail.com</a></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"><br></span></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 5:27 PM Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5837173564355668017">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Students might also be encouraged to examine voting materials by a newly published research report titled “U.S. State Policy Contexts and Mortality of Working-Age Adults” that details the life-and-death implications of their voting decisions
(<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275466__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!mcG2tLpD8AAWiBF7onsOlPX1sSoESGHQzvTaqZKk-slESv4xPiaFjVh3V6BcKwfNTtvLkCDiZm1qPVQFcWw$" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275466 [doi.org]</a>). Here’s a portion of the abstract:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);background:white">We modeled the associations between working-age mortality rates and state policies during 1999 to 2019. . . . More conservative marijuana policies and more liberal policies
on the environment, gun safety, labor, economic taxes, and tobacco taxes in a state were associated with lower mortality in that state. . . . Simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved
171,030 lives in 2019, while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might have cost 217,635 lives.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);background:white">The report offers opportunity for lively class discussion of research methods, statistical images, and provocative findings and conclusions as well as rhetoric (e.g., the words
<i>ethics</i> and <i>morality </i>are avoided altogether).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sam Dragga<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Professor Emeritus<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank">sam.dragga@ttu.edu</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">ATTW-L <<a href="mailto:attw-l-bounces@attw.org" target="_blank">attw-l-bounces@attw.org</a>> on behalf of Rob Rowan <<a href="mailto:rmrowan@xmission.com" target="_blank">rmrowan@xmission.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 6:58 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:attw-l@attw.org" target="_blank">attw-l@attw.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:attw-l@attw.org" target="_blank">attw-l@attw.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[ATTW-L] Professional Communication and Voting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:rgb(255,235,156)"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black">This email originated outside TTU. Please
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://askit.ttu.edu/phishing__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!mcG2tLpD8AAWiBF7onsOlPX1sSoESGHQzvTaqZKk-slESv4xPiaFjVh3V6BcKwfNTtvLkCDiZm1qmWterNY$" target="_blank">exercise caution [askit.ttu.edu]</a>!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Early voting has started in many states. Remind your eligible students to go vote.<br>
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Voter information sites like BallotPedia (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fballotpedia.org*2FMain_Page&data=05*7C01*7Csam.dragga*40ttu.edu*7C208a4b91e4f24f0e342408dab75a717c*7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c*7C0*7C1*7C638023896434307524*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C2000*7C*7C*7C&sdata=VQlftA2xV7FtOmncZyLlZO3vhzMaqDdd7*2F78ddXmDIQ*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!mcG2tLpD8AAWiBF7onsOlPX1sSoESGHQzvTaqZKk-slESv4xPiaFjVh3V6BcKwfNTtvLkCDiZm1qsnIvGR4$" target="_blank">https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page [nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com]</a>)
and county Board of Elections websites present a good opportunity to analyze public-facing professional communication on a topic of great civic importance.
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As an example, here's the Cuyahoga County, Ohio BoE site: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fboe.cuyahogacounty.gov*2F&data=05*7C01*7Csam.dragga*40ttu.edu*7C208a4b91e4f24f0e342408dab75a717c*7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c*7C0*7C1*7C638023896434307524*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C2000*7C*7C*7C&sdata=2qHR8mIsUk0u9crSg*2F3TqJaaSSqntpb6f2L7m6rcV3c*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!mcG2tLpD8AAWiBF7onsOlPX1sSoESGHQzvTaqZKk-slESv4xPiaFjVh3V6BcKwfNTtvLkCDiZm1qytj7eL4$" target="_blank">
https://boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/ [nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com]</a><br>
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For the lucky few who live in Ulster County, NY, voters may be able to pick up this wonderful sticker designed by contest winner Hudson Rowan (no relation):<br>
<img border="0" width="400" height="400" style="width: 4.1666in; height: 4.1666in;" id="m_5837173564355668017_x0000_i1025" src="cid:1841c2b06834ce8e91"><br>
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This contest entry absolutely demolished the competition--there's probably an interesting visual rhetoric discussion to be had here too.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Rob Rowan<br>
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Robert M. Rowan, PhD<br>
Lecturer, Department of English<br>
Case Western Reserve University<br>
<a href="mailto:rmrowan@xmission.com" target="_blank">rmrowan@xmission.com</a> or <a href="mailto:rmr122@case.edu" target="_blank">
rmr122@case.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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