For your writing assignment this week, please watch and embed the following Youtube video clip into a post on your blog. You can find the HTML code here.
Each of you will engage the FIRST question (ending around the 5:25 mark) asked by moderator Gwen Ifill through a rhetorical lens, but with a focus on particular aspects. Group 1 (Jeremy, Natasha, and Rachel) will address the manner in which Joe Biden employs logos, while Group 2 (Tim, Ashley, and Hannah) will do the same for Sarah Palin. Group 3 (Travis, Christine, and Stephanie) will analyze JB's use of pathos, while Group 4 (Brandon, Melissa, and Zach) will analyze SP's. Finally, Group 5 (Josh S, John, and Torie) will engage JB's implementation of ethos, while Group 6 (Drew, Josh W, Jennifer, and Alex) will do the same for SP.
A few issues to consider before writing: 1) while you have been given a specific focus that you MUST foreground in your response, remember that most of these appeals overlap with one another, so in all likelihood you will BRIEFLY address one, if not both, of the other appeals, 2) this, as mentioned last week, is to be a rhetorical analysis, so personal political opinions and beliefs should not make their way into your writing, 3) engage SPECIFIC material from the video, whether that be through quotation or highly description observational details (the former when dealing with what a particular VP candidate is saying, the latter if you are dealing w/ the visual rhetoric employed), and 4) include 2 hyperlinks. Posts are to be 500 words in length. DUE: Sunday, October 26th @ midnight.
Each of you will engage the FIRST question (ending around the 5:25 mark) asked by moderator Gwen Ifill through a rhetorical lens, but with a focus on particular aspects. Group 1 (Jeremy, Natasha, and Rachel) will address the manner in which Joe Biden employs logos, while Group 2 (Tim, Ashley, and Hannah) will do the same for Sarah Palin. Group 3 (Travis, Christine, and Stephanie) will analyze JB's use of pathos, while Group 4 (Brandon, Melissa, and Zach) will analyze SP's. Finally, Group 5 (Josh S, John, and Torie) will engage JB's implementation of ethos, while Group 6 (Drew, Josh W, Jennifer, and Alex) will do the same for SP.
A few issues to consider before writing: 1) while you have been given a specific focus that you MUST foreground in your response, remember that most of these appeals overlap with one another, so in all likelihood you will BRIEFLY address one, if not both, of the other appeals, 2) this, as mentioned last week, is to be a rhetorical analysis, so personal political opinions and beliefs should not make their way into your writing, 3) engage SPECIFIC material from the video, whether that be through quotation or highly description observational details (the former when dealing with what a particular VP candidate is saying, the latter if you are dealing w/ the visual rhetoric employed), and 4) include 2 hyperlinks. Posts are to be 500 words in length. DUE: Sunday, October 26th @ midnight.
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