Fake News vs Older Americans

In my Professional and Technical Writing course, we were given the ability to choose a problem that needed to be solved and create a project from that. I had noticed a large amount of seniors/older people were especially susceptible to fake news, and I wanted to explore ways to reach out to them and assist them with this issue.

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For this project, I was able to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research on a smaller scale which I used to write a formal recommendation memo. Then, we were put into groups and I led my group in repurposing my work and creating a product that would effectively solve the problem. We came up with a flyer that would be easy and simple for seniors to use and could be spread easily without technology since many seniors prefer offline advertising

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This was my formal introduction to researching and writing reports, and I learned a lot of technical skills from this. If I could go back and do one thing differently, I would redesign the flyer to be less wordy. Since this class was only designed for a short-term project, I would also love more time to conduct research on the effectiveness of this flyer.