Final Assignment: Reading Response 5, Rhetorical Revision
Rather than taking a final exam for your final evaluative experience, this assignment asks that you demonstrate your knowledge of the rhetorical situation. Specifically, this assignment asks you to write about how you will revise your argument in Essay 4 for a different medium and audience. Specifically, how would you express this position if you were making an internet home page? On that page, you can present visual, oral, textual and even musical rhetorical components.
After choosing a specific audience for your message, you will design and publish to the internet a home page advocating your argumentative position in Essay 4. Your original internet page will be designed for the presentation (during final’s week); RR 5 is asking you to analyze the rhetorical choices you made in shifting your argument for this new medium. (Note: the paper is due before the presentation; your visual does not need to be complete for you to write the paper, but you’ll want to have a plan/sketch of it to write about it for RR 5.)
Write a reading response in which you explain how you revised your position paper for this new audience and medium and what you learned from doing so. In this paper, you want to accomplish three things: 1) remind readers of the context and give an overview of your argument for essay four, 2) explain in detail the choices you made in turning this into a web page, and 3) what you learned about the rhetorical process (issues of audience—including location, form, visual appeals, etc.) from making these changes. Then, as described below, plan an oral presentation for your class in which you will share your rhetorical revision with a visual aid. RR 5 is worth 3% of your course grade.
Site minimum, 3 pages:
Page One: rhetorical appeal
Page Two: "Argument" (visual, textual, oral); relevant links, downloads.
Page Three: attributions (sources, URLs, citations).
Final Evaluative Experience: Presentation of the Rhetorical Revision
For the Final Evaluative Experience, plan an oral presentation for your class in which you will share the ideas from your RR 5. Your presentation will be five minutes in length, with a minute or two for questions after those five minutes. For the presentation you will give the context of your argument for Essay 4 and then present your new message in the new medium and explain the rhetorical choices you made to do so. How would you express this position if you were making a commercial or designing a billboard? Explain what analysis you made in terms of audience and purpose as you developed your new messages in the new medium. Your presentation must include a visual example of your argument in a new medium (commercial, billboard, ad, etc.). You’ll not read from RR 5 for your presentation, but you’ll talk about the ideas you generated within the paper. In your presentation you’ll want to describe the rhetorical choices you made for your visual medium (in other words, walk us through the visual and don’t just have it as a backdrop).
Your presentation will be evaluated with a letter grade based on the effectiveness with which you convey your ideas to your audience (i.e: management of information given the time allowed), the interest you sustain with your audience (can be done in a variety of ways—think in part of rhetorical strategies we’ve discussed in class, how you might convey ethos, pathos, logos, for example), and your ability to display your understanding of rhetorical contexts. There will be a minute or two for questions after your presentation, and you’ll be assessed on how you answer these as well. Finally, your grade will include your work as a participant—asking questions of others’ presentations, being engaged in their presentations, etc. Your presentation grade is 5% of your course grade.
Due Dates:
Response Paper 5: December 4th (Thursday)
Web page: December 16 (