Questions

1) What strategies does the author use to reach a wide, non-expert/academic audience?

            From the perspectives of the author, one of the strategies that he employs entail making it very clear to the audience the public scholarship program is one of the parameters that is perceived to have the potential of fostering conversations regarding them. The reason for that is because it aid in providing various resources and academic support that in return has the propensity of raising diverse and exciting career objectives (Wharton et al., 2006).

2) In what ways is the author’s expertise evident in the public scholarship?

            As much as public scholarship is concerned, the expertise of the author indicates that the provision of such an opportunity has the potential of establishing and distributing academic information to the general public and communities. This procedure involve enhancing creative academic activities, sharing of public knowledge, revision of the existing curriculum, enriching research, strengthening civic and democratic responsibilities, and so on (Wharton et al., 2006).

3) Do you think this was a good choice of genre for the scholar’s ideas/research? Why or why not?

            This was a good idea because public scholarship has the potential of enhancing creative activities that have been realized to have the ability of joining serious intellectual endeavors with obligation to public consequences and practice. Such a scenario is paramount because it takes into account things like fostering intellectual work that has the potential of producing public goo, historical, critical, and artistic work that aid in contributing towards public debates, and so on (Wharton et al., 2006).

4) In spite of its public nature, what are the potential barriers for average citizens to access this piece of scholarship (paywall, literacies, etc.)?

            Public scholarship provides learners with various efforts that enable them to expand the career development programs and researches.  Despite that, the use of the paywall has the potential of limiting the average citizens to access it because of the need of authentication credentials. Moreover, the level of literacy of a person is the one that can guarantee the chances of obtaining public scholarship

5) Do you consider this piece of public scholarship to be advocacy/activism? Why or why not?

            Public scholarship is ultimately an advocacy to enriching the academic requirements of a person. The reason for that is because it is designed for the purpose of making a lifetime impact on the career perspectives of the learner. It is mainly implemented for the essence of enabling the learner to meet his or her academic goals without taking into account their financial backgrounds.

 

 

 

 

                                                           

 

 

                                                            Reference

Wharton-Michael, P., Janke, E. M., Karim, R., Syvertsen, A. K., & Wray, L. D. (2006). An explication of public scholarship objectives. New Directions for Teaching & Learning, 2006(105), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1002/tl.225