Carr,+Faith

**GENIUS HOUR**
MODE- informational non-fiction MEDIA- informational website AUDIENCE- The audience of this website is Mrs.Murchie and Ms.B along with anyone who is interested in learning about muscular dystrophies. PURPOSE-The purpose of the website is to provide information on the different forms of muscular dystrophies. It includes symptoms, what could be the cause of certain forms an how they can be diagnosed. SITUATION- I created this website just because while i was researching there weren't any websites that gave a brief overview of the different type of muscular dystrophies. They gave really the only part of the body it effects. So in the website I included a brief overview that includes what the disease is where it effects and what causes the disease. I have followed the rubric provided my Mrs.Murchie.

What did you research and why? I decided to research muscular dystrophies. I did this because throughout the genius hours i have done the majority of my research on medical terms. But all the terms i looked up where small and didn't have anything deep to them. They were just what they were and it was simple. With mucular dystrophies on the other hand there are more of them. With mutations in different genes that cause them. But another reason why ! researched this topic is because my mother suffers from CMT, a nerve disorder that cause muscular dystrophy.

What did you create and why? I created an easy to navigate and easy to understand website. I created this because some of the websites I looked at had medical terms I didn't really understand until I looked them up. On my website I tried to make it easier and more simple to understand for those who don't have a degree in medicine or those who are doing research as I did.

LINK TO GENIUS HOUR PROJECT:

https://muscularsdystrophy.weebly.com/

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