My research question is about what the harm of telling or hiding the truth is, or rather which would be better.
I am connected to this rhetorical situation because I share an experience of hiding the truth from someone and I am sure that most people have.
Since the paper is ultimately about a personal experience, I do imagine it existing in a personal blog (and, no, not on blogs@baruch).
While I do feel like my target audience can be anyone, if I were to narrow it down, it could be to teenagers and parents of teenagers. This is because teens are believed to be rebellious like I was in some way.
A form that would make more sense to me right now is narrative, but of course, it would be a research paper as well, because sources will be cited.
This form is the most effective way to communicate the message because the audience can understand if they know the experience. Most of them have gone through something like this. Even if it is not between a child to a parent, it could happen with other family members or with friends.
My intention with this could be to get the audience to be more open and not hide the truth so much. As my sources may indicate, there could be a fine line where that is and is not moral, but really, I hope that they can learn to deal with harms, especially when there is not something that we can do about truths that we may not like.