Thursday, March 1, 2012

Blog Post #5: Applying Rhetorical Perspectives (due by class on 3/13)

The next post in your course blog will be a mini rhetorical analysis.  Select a popular culture text that intrigues you in some way.  Then write a 500-word analysis of this text through at least one of the methods (or you may combine two or more) that we have discussed in the last couple of weeks: Narrative, Feminist, and/or Marxist Perspectives. 

This short essay should show the conventional characteristics of a rhetorical essay, such as a brief description and some background about the artifact (the pop culture text that you analyze), a thesis statement that summarizes the text's overall rhetorical strategies and effect, a few paragraphs that provide examples from the pop culture text that support your thesis, and a conclusion that wraps up the overall effect of the text (see the Tips for Writing an Analysis on Blackboard>Course Documents, if you need a reminder on these conventions). 

On Tuesday, March 13th, we will meet in BAL 1013-A lab to complete a peer activity on these posts.  Make sure that you have made this post exactly by the class time so that your peers can work on it (students will lose significant points off the top of the course blog grade for incompletion of such posts).  If you have any questions, email eguler@odu.edu

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