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11/21: Introducing the Poster Project
In preparation for the Poster Project, we looked together at this poster from Visualizing Palestine and a poster from Kidnapped from Israel. We will take some time in class writing quietly and individually about a social issue you care about. This will be a draft of Blog Post 7. HOMEWORK READ Cushman’s “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change,” available on Blackboard. WRITE Blog Post 7, DUE NEXT CLASS 11/28. Brainstorming the Poster Project: Identify a problem that matters to you by focusing on exigence and audience: Exigence Audience Finally, in this post, I invite you to tell me if you’d like to work individually on this final project…
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10/12: Multimodal Rhetorical Situations
Last week, and over the long weekend, you considered how a piece you chose represented invitational rhetoric. I’d like to spend some time at the start of class today hearing your responses to this prompt from last class. We’ve been building towards your next major assignment–a Rhetorical Analysis of Local Advocacy–and will continue to do so today. (NOTE: I will have the written Rhetorical Analysis assignment for you by next class.) For this next major assignment, you will work in two-person teams to study the rhetorical strategies used on local advocacy, using rhetorical frameworks from the texts we’ve already read and from Keith Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.” We’ll…
