Introducing P2

2/14

What are we doing?

Project 1

• Writing in the academic genre
• Evaluating an existing artifact
• Showing where our terms were used in the artifact

Project 2

• Creating your own persuasive essay
• Composing the essay using the terms from this class
• Targeting a specific audience

What are we doing?

Rhetor: You!

Audience: [who are you trying to convince?]

Rhetorical goal: [what are you trying to convince the audience to do?]

Assignment requirements

“Requirements: compose an persuasive text intended to persuade a specific audience. This text will need to include at least 4-5 rhetorical strategies and purposeful arrangement geared toward moving the audience to the rhetor's (yours) persuasive goal.”

“include writing elements that we strengthened in project 1 (thesis, "So what", arrangement)”

“your text will have to 1) reiterates values of a selected community and 2) persuades audiences in some capacity.”

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Locating a topic

Before we can do that, let’s remember…

1. You text must be composed for a specific audience, in particular, you need to think about specific community(ies) that will be receptive to your argument. How can you best reach this audience? On what occasions will these people access your text?
2. Your persuasive goal must be attainable. Do we want to eradicate racism? Yes. Is that going to happen with one masterful speech, no. Think about smaller goals along the way that are possible to enact. For example, instead of eradicating racism, your goal is to have people commit to being anti-racist.

Locating a topic

Are there any social issues that you care about?

What are you excited about?

• We can usually make your interests work. Cooking, Anime, video games, etc…?

What communities or groups do you care about?

Topic workshop

In groups of 3-4

• If you care about a social issue, figure out who are talking to.
• If you have something you are passionate about, find a rhetorical goal.
• If you have an existing community you care about, what are you asking them to do?

More topic workshop

2/16

Agenda

• Share potential topics
• Examples of previous student work
• Topic workshops

Potential topics

Please share…

• Name (for attendance)
• Rhetorical goal
• Audience

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(If you don’t know yet, you can say that)

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Samples of student work

(go to course website, under “course material” tab)

Topic refining workshop

Choose your own adventure

1. Refining audience
1. I have a rhetorical goal, but my audience is too broad
2. Refining rhetorical goal
• I have an audience, but i don’t know what to get them to do.
3. Halp…
• I don’t have anything

Audience

I have a rhetorical goal, but my audience is too broad

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• Name, Rhetorical goal
• Who should hear the argument?
• Who can do anything about it?
• Constraints
• Demographics (age, gender, occupation, location)
• Knowledge
• Etc.

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Rhetorical goal

I have an audience, but i don’t know what to get them to do.

• Name, audience
• Rhetorical goal: alter perception or action
• What arguments exist in the group already? (you may have to do some googling)
• What do people care about in this group?
• Should anything about the group change?

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Halp

I don’t have a topic

• Make a list of hobbies, interests, what you do in your free time.
• Talk to ryan.