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10/5: Multimodal Rhetoric
We’ve started thinking about different modalities for writing for advocacy. A modality is the delivery platform by which a message is circulated; it’s part of what Doug Downs calls the ecology of rhetoric. In his essay that we read last week, Downs says that “human interaction and meaning-making is […] the experience of encountering a vast range of sensory signals and interpreting them by associating them with networks of our existing knowledge” (462-3). Using this ideas of networks, Downs offers us an ecological framework for understanding how humans communicate through texts, written and otherwise. I asked you to bring an example of any text in your life you feel represents…
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10/3: Introduction to Invitational Rhetoric
Let’s start by confirming that everyone created a new page on their WordPress site to deliver their final counterstories. I’ll then ask for you to define invitational rhetoric using Foss & Griffin’s “Beyond Persuasion.” What forms of invitational rhetoric have we already seen (or composed?) this semester. HOMEWORK Come to next class with an example of invitational rhetoric that is important to you. I invite you to choose from a range of modalities: music, narrative, news, social media, and more. You’ll be working individually and in small groups next class to define the ecology of the sample you bring in, and you’ll report back to the larger group. UPDATE: if…
