We
have been developing rhetorical knowledge and you are now tasked with
delivering a message to an audience of 12th graders who are one year
away from college. Your message cannot be in a format of a paper written
to me, but rather it must be in the form of a genre meant to reach this
particular audience. Your task is to teach these students (12th graders
about a year away from college) the benefits of thinking rhetorically.
Consider the arguments made by authors in our unit about writing
constructs as a starting point. What might you show these students to
help them adjust to thinking rhetorically as they approach their studies
in college?
You write and read in many different
genres. Facebook postings, text messages, emails, Tumbler, Instagram,
and Tweets are probably some genres you are familiar with, but you are
free to chose a genre that makes sense for the message you want to
deliver. Perhaps you could design a Prezi or a Power Point. You might
want to create a YouTube video. Perhaps you could design a pamphlet or a
flier.
However you develop your content and your
message is up to you, but the best pieces will show students how to
understand rhetorical situations and will utilize a genre of delivery to
get the message across. Your file for this assignment must be saved and
accessible through the Net. If, for example, you create a pamphlet, you
must save the document to the cloud and create a link to post in this
discussion space. Likewise, if you create a Prezi or a YouTube video,
you must post a working link in the discussion board space.
This
project allows you lots of leeway regarding what your end product is.
In this regard, I am encouraging you to step outside the box and produce
something creative. I would rather you come up short in an effort that
really steps outside the box than to play it safe. This assignment is
calling you to be bold and creative.
It is NOT acceptable
to simply re-hash Grant-Davie's constituents of rhetoric without giving
concrete examples to demonstrate these constituents as well as sound
reasoning as to why studying rhetoric is helpful for student writers
entering college.
Here is the link to the PowerPoint that I made:
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As a Senior in high school that is getting ready to go into college, changing your critical thinking into thinking rhetorically will really help you in your future. Mainly because with thinking rhetoically you must first apply to your life outside of being a student. You break down something that you're reading by brainstorming what the author is asking or trying to tell you and what is their overall point. Once, you've found that the writing or reading will make more sense, and with that you will then take with you whatever the author was trying to write about. Thinking rhetotically will make you very successful in your courses in college, and I wish you the best of luck!
ReplyDeleteI've made a power point
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https://www.dropbox.com/l/ua4rudxO8jhMlWjcrlFeu9
My address to High School seniors.
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http://prezi.com/juwfildcbvwk/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
ReplyDeleteFor some of you leaving high school can be a very scary thought. As for the rest of you it may be a new adventure that you have been waiting for. Up utill your senior year of high school you have used rhectorically situations as trial and error. Just by going through this it has made you a better reader and writer for college. The first year of college many thoughts will scatter in your head . Some thoughts maybe how will i be able to manage all these classes ? The thing about college is that you get to pick how many class you want and what time you take them at amazing right! A great rhectorically situation is you spent 12 years in school to get to where you are now its your job to get all your work done from here on out and be responsible. When you walk acrros that stage you are using body language to communicate with the audience to show you have earned your spot. Always remember your outcome! You spent many years to achieve this goal by practicing different rhectorically situations. Best wishes and good luck seniors!
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Now some of you may be nervous to enter college; but college will be the best time of your life. Rhetorically you may have had issues and high school that were minor and you had to learn how to handle those issues; of course you achieved them which help you prepare for college. Entering college is big step in your life because it changes you because you have to responsible for yourself which will help you achieve the goals you want in life; at the end of college you will still be strong and accomplished and it will be your time to shine. Good luck Seniors and make those four years your success years!!!!
ReplyDeleteTried posting this last night… Hope it sticks this time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-RiNGochqM
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