All:
Please read "Images of Main Street" from Writing and Place (WP), and try to have decided upon something (Newspaper or Magazine Article, Comedy Routine, TV Drama, Advertisement, Corporate Logo, etc etc etc...your choice) to use for your Rhetorical Analysis paper. If you are struggling to find something, perhaps keep in mind some questions: What is this claiming? What is the communicator trying to convey? How is he/she trying to reach me (what means? emotions? logic? authority?)? Are the arguments strong? Are there fallacies that I could highlight? What is the communicator perhaps not considering? What are the assumptions they want me to make? Am I their intended audience (and if not, to whom are they speaking)? What could have been done to make this more effective? And so on...If you choose a piece of writing or media that, when viewed by these questions, begins to generate responses that interest you, then you might be hitting on something that would be worth using. Also, maybe keep in mind some of the questions raised by the "Economic Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Gourmet Coffee" essay from WP. If you are truly struggling with coming up with a solid idea, then come talk to me.
Adios...have a good weekend and don't do anything I would do.
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sooo.. are we really supposed to choose ANYTHING to analyze?... snd I thought you were gonna put links up to those sites? I didn't quite write them down and I've procrastinated on homework so I'm trying to do it now, but i'm a little, just a little unclear about the work.
Thanks
-Becky
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