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Friday,
Jan. 28: Media Analysis due on Forum
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essay should be 3-4 pages in length, containing an introduction,
a main body, and a conclusion. Please be sure to include your
name on the header of your reflection. |
In
this 3-4 page analysis, students will discuss their observations about
the difference between creating arguments in print, oral, and electronic
media and will also set some learning goals for their own continued
work with these media during the rest of the quarter.
| Why
are we doing this? |
PWR2
as a course is concerned with the way in which you apply strategies
of argumentation and the principles of rhetoric within different
medium. Since you have just completed the first stage in this
process, it will be helpful to you to assess how you changed your
writing strategies and style to accommodate the different forms
in which you presented your argument. In addition, reflection
on the translation at this stage in the quarter will help you
troubleshoot your needs for similar work later in the quarter.
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| What
this essay contain? |
This
essay should be comprised of two basic components or sections:
an analysis section and a reflection section.
- The
Analysis section: In
this section, you should summarize and analyze the rhetorical
principles and strategies you observed in the oral and electronic
media you worked with and discuss the ways in which you adapted
your proposal specifically to accommodate the different rhetorical
demands of these genres. This is the rhetorical analysis
section of your essay.
- The
Reflection section: In
this section, you should reflect on your experience
in adapting your proposal to these different forms. How successful
was it? How difficult? What surprised you? What was easier
than you imagined? As a key part of this section,
you need to troubleshoot your use of these media in the future;
that is, what have you learned about your own capabilities
and the limitations of your knowledge/expertise that you can
work on in creating another oral presentation and another
hypertext later in the quarter?
You
may organize your essay in whatever way best suits your rhetorical
purpose -- for instance, you may choose to have one large section
on Analysis (in which you deal with the oral and the hypertext)
and then another larger section on Reflection (in which you again
deal with the oral and the hypertext) or you
might decide to have one section on the Oral Proposal Presentation
(in which you deal with the Analysis and then the Reflection)
and then another section on the Hypertext Proposal (in which you
deal with the Analysis and the Reflection). The choice is yours;
however, remember you need both an introduction and a conclusion
as an overarching frame to these sections.
In
addition, be sure to use specific detail and example to enrich
your discussion -- don't get bogged down by vague generalizations.
You can import images into your paper if you want or provide hotlinks
to specific parts of your Proposal website. Also, consider the
way that using appropriate terms (rhetorical terms like pathos,
ethos, logos, etc.; hypertext terms like multilinearity, scannability,
chunking, etc; oral rhetoric terms like delivery, innovation,
memory, etc.) can improve your own ethos as an author in this
analysis. Other elements you might include are
- references
to student feedback on your presentation and/or your hypertext,
- discussion
of your work with the OCTs, feedback you received from them,
and the experience of watching yourself on video
- your
own impressions about oral presentations/hypertexts from your
experiences as a reader/audience member
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| Where
can I find extra help on this? |
| Feel
free to e-mail me, IM me,
or talk to me in class if you have any questions. In addition, you
may find it helpful to look at the sample analyses below. |
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