Production Reports

Now that I have finished my outline, I am going on to produce content from this outline (a little bit behind schedule). Here I adapted my introduction and first body paragraph.

Production Report A

Audience Questions

1. How did you decide to use form to present your content in the raw material you’ve shared here? How did the conventions of your chosen genre influence your choices?
2. How did the production of this raw material go? What kinds of any hiccups, challenges, successes, creative epiphanies, etc. occurred during the process?

Author Response

Outline Item:

1. An opening section
1. Nature and Nurture have a combined effect on personality and other developmental traits. However, you cannot say it is one, or the other, or both. It depends on the trait you are examining. There is no answer to the Nature vs. Nurture debate.
2. Relate to reader
1. Are you you because of your genes? Or are you you because of your environment?
3. Come up with examples
1. Why do you have anxiety? It is because it’s in your DNA?
2. Why do you like dogs? Is it because your parents did?
3. Why do you have the BMI you do? Genetics? Environment?
4. Why do you procrastinate? Is it because you were raised to procrastinate?
5. Why are you empathetic? Is it because you were exposed to lots of different people of different financial and cultural backgrounds?
6. Why do you have schizophrenia? Is it in your genes?

Adaption of Outline Item:

Why are you the person you are? Do you have anxiety because of your gene sequence? Do you like dogs because you grew up around dogs? Do you procrastinate because it is in your genetics? Nature or nurture?

Nature can be generalized as your gene sequences or you epigenome. Likewise, Nurture can be generalized as your environment, childhood, family, friends, home, and people, places, or influences in your day to day life. Many claim that genetics alone dictate an individual’s personality, physical health, and mental health. Conversely, a similarly large number of people claim that it is, in fact, environment that dictates these traits. There is truth to both aspects of this argument. You cannot divide the two. They affect these traits equally. It is impossible to divide the two because nature affects nurture, nurture affects nature, and nature and nurture affect you.

1. I used the form of a standard college essay. The first paragraph is an introduction that grabs the reader’s attention and then the second paragraph expands more on the introduction. Because of the straightforward nature of the essay, I could pretty much adapt my outline into paragraph form.
2. I am a bit unsure about my use of “you”. I’m not sure if that quite fits the standard college essay. I really like the way it works with the essay, though. I like the engagement with the reader. I think it makes the topic more relatable. But, it could be a potential hiccup.

Production Report B

Audience Questions

1. How did you decide to use form to present your content in the raw material you’ve shared here? How did the conventions of your chosen genre influence your choices?
2. How did the production of this raw material go? What kinds of any hiccups, challenges, successes, creative epiphanies, etc. occurred during the process?

Author Response:

Outline Item

1. Nature and Nurture have an equal effect on personality
1. Nature or Nurture? The Long-Running Debate May Finally Be Settled
1. What’s this prove?
1. “The analysis — involving more than 14.5 million twin pairs from 39 countries — indicates that nature and nurture are virtually tied.”
2. “Some traits turned out to be more heritable than others. For instance, cleft lip was found to be 98 percent heritable, risk for having bipolar disorder about 70 percent heritable.”
3. The two are inseparable however you cannot make sweeping generalizations about the relationship because it depends on the genes
2. Why does this matter?
1. It proves my point but also shows a little (adaptable) flaw in my argument - that you cannot generalize nature vs. nurture
2. There is no singular way to describe this relationship but it is predominantly a combination of nature and nurture
2. Stress and Trauma in Childhood Affect Gene Expression for Life
1. What’s this prove?
1. “[The glucocorticoid] receptor gene may play a significant role in the pathway linking adverse or stressful life events and health problems, or even social difficulties.”
2. “In children who had suffered abuse, these promoter regions were methylated at much higher rates than in children who had not been abused.”
3. Different life experiences affect the production of chemicals in the body
2. Why does this matter?
1. While your genetics may dictate one action from the glucocorticoid receptor, your environment may cause another - occasional predominance

Adaption of Outline Item

Nature and nurture have a relative effect on personality, physical health, and mental health. Sometimes the effect is equal, sometimes nature dominates, sometimes nurture dominates. Nature and nurture are inseparable but you cannot generalize their influence. It depends on what you are talking about. While some personality traits may be more influenced by nurture some physical health issues may be more influenced by nature. Macrina Cooper-White describes a study that found that “some traits turned out to be more heritable than others. For instance, cleft lip was found to be 98 percent heritable, risk for having bipolar disorder about 70 percent heritable” (The Huffington Post). Even within physical health, mental health, or anxiety, there are variations in the level of influence.

For instance Rachel Barclay describes a study on glucocorticoid receptors, receptors of the chemical cortisol that affect alertness, “in children who had suffered abuse, these promoter regions were methylated at much higher rates than in children who had not been abused” (Healthline). She goes on to describe the effects of these high cortisol levels - anxiety, panic, heart issues, suppressing the immune system. ** converse example of how nature has more effect** This exemplifies the relative effect of nature and nurture.

1. I used form in a similar way in this production report as I did in the last. I took the content of the outlines and translated it into paragraph form. Because of the very strict, straightforward, and formulaic nature of the standard college essay, there was not much more thought that I put into form.

1. I found that I would benefit more from an additional source. So this will require a little more sorting through my research report or doing some extra research. I also found it a little difficult to add content into my evidence. I’m struggling some with arguing something and leaning more towards just reiterating the studies described by various articles.