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IMPORTANT:  If you have not added your wiki address to the class wiki page...YOU DO NOT EXIST, and if you don't exist, you can't earn a grade for the course.  This means YOU must add your address to the page TODAY without any excuse. 

1. Journal time:

We are visiting the Grant-Davie Article.

Please create a page on your wiki and title it Revist Rhet Sit  

Place it in your project one folder

Prompt:  Why do you think your professor assigned the Grant-Davie article? How can understanding the concept of rhetorical  situation be useful to you in school and in your life?  And your upcoming paper?

Timer will be set for 10 min.  Remember the rules....Can you do it? 

2. Class discussion over reading.

Class Discussion over Grant-Davie Reading. 

Get into groups of three/four and discuss the following.  Please appoint a recorder for the group to collect a consensus of what the groups answer.  Use the reading to support your discussion. 

• What does it mean to negotiate with your audience? As a writer, what is the difference between imagining yourself talking to and negotiating with your audience?  What would you do differently if you were doing the latter?   
• What are constraints? To help you work this out, consider what Grant-Davie's constraints might have been in drafting this piece? Bitzer, you learned in this piece, argues that we should think of constraints as aids rather than restrictions. How might that be?  
• What is discourse?  In defining it...how would one define a rhetorical situation? rhetorical discourse?

3. Review of Persuasive Devices. and your first paper. Rhetorical Analysis

Pathos, Ethos, Logos, 

What other rhetorical elements should you look for?

Here’s some basics to help you get started in the research process for your analysis:  (This is just to help you get started, so you can add onto your analysis.  Break it up into pieces so you can keep things clear and organized.

1. Choose your text.  You can choose which elements of your writing piece you want to analyze. 

2. Find at least one rhetorical device and expand on it, demonstrate how it is used and explicate why you feel it is used.  (use textual support to back up claim) 

3. Put together a thesis statement that reflects your rhetorical stance and sets up the warrants to your claims. 

4. Once you the rhetorical devices from your text, you can then use the rest of your research as evidence to support your claims. 

Now, you can use the rest of these guidelines to help you in the development of your overall analysis.

• Define your text to contextualize your literary piece of study.  Your description of your piece should explain why you chose it. How is your piece is important in a larger context?

• Describe and discuss the question or problem (or solution) of communication that your text illuminates.  Why is your writing piece significant?  What important issues does it exemplify?

• Make a connection with your audience.  Why should your text be meaningful to your audience?  Why is your text persuasive and/or influential? 

• Thoroughly discuss the implications of your writing piece.  Your paper should be clearly organized, include an introduction and conclusion.

4. Here is a handout to help you break down your text further.  You don't have to use all of these, again this handout is designed to help you sift through your text and find what you want to analyze.  Rhetorical Analysis Questions to consider

5.  Let's have some fun with Rhetoric and prepare you for your first paper even further. You are well informed about how rhetoric is used in many different ways. We listen to it daily, we see it daily on your computers online, on tv in magazines...everywhere we are seeing how language is being used to persuade us in some way, shape or form.  

So lets take a look at a couple of commercials...and look at the rhetoric of there message.  Here are some questions to consider while you watch. 

1.Describe all the visual elements you see in as much concrete detail as possible.

2.What do you think is the overall argument and purpose of the images presented in this commercial?

3.Who do you think is the specific persona and audience of the images presented?

4.What rhetorical appeals operate in this visual rhetoric?

5.What are the effects of these rhetorical appeals on the persuasiveness of the text?

6.How do visual and verbal work together to convey an argument?

7.What is the significance of Kairos (or context) for the power of the image/text?

 Here is the script from the commercial. Wanna know what she is saying??  Fiat 500 Abarth comm script (1).docx  https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/current-events/fiat-500-usa-superbowl-ad-translation-italy 

Why would these commercial be considered effective?  It's interesting to note how when we throw visual elements into the picture...things become even deeper and we have even more to talk about. 

This is exactly what you will be doing with the speech, poem or song you have chosen.  You will look at the text first, and if you want to add in the element of visual rhetoric, you can but it is not required.

6. For HW you were asked to come with a list of 5 to 6 possible texts that you might want to use for your rhetorical analysis. Bring out that list now.

From that list.  You will choose three and complete a focused free-write. 

HW: 1. Re-read the Writing assignment (Rhetorical Analysis)  2.  From your pre-writing list of possible texts you want to analyze pick three and do a focused free write on each. Time your self 10 min on each.  3. Research the Rhet Sit of the three.  Context... AND  3. How you plan to use the Grant-Davie article? This suggests it needs to be used, so you will need to re-visit the article and now examine how this article fits into your rhetorical analysis.