For Wednesday: background research BLOG POST 33

BLOG POST 33:

1. Create a Google Document called Background Research. 
2. Research how your message is being communicated by other persons or groups. Pick three different groups or individuals and analyze how they are addressing the issue (essentially write a SOAPSTone on each one). 
3. Post a link to your document on your blog. 
4. Comment on two other documents. 

Updated project timeline, and Project Proposal

The timeline has been updated: view here


Your project proposal is due next Monday at 8AM in the d2l Dropbox. It should be approx. 1000-1200 words.  In it, you should describe:

1. The rhetorical context for your project. This should 
1. describe the issue, including some facts and references to outside sources
2. describe the stakeholders in the issue, identifying who has the power to actually do something about the issue
3. discuss how three other persons/groups are already addressing the issue (Basically, a SOAPSTone for each one (genre, type of argument, purpose, audience, etc. ) 
2. How what you want to do fits into the ongoing conversation:
1. the message you want to communicate, including the type of argument
2. the specific audience you want to influence
3. the purpose of your message (what effect do you want to have on your audience/ call to action)
4. the genre/occasion you have chosen (letter, speech, website, etc)
5. the rhetorical appeals you think will be most effective
3. How/why you decided on these choices (assessing their possible rhetorical effectiveness in your given circumstances, including your own role as speaker) 

==>Here is a link to an example project proposal.  Feel free to comment, ask questions, make suggestions,

Five types of public argument

5 types of arguments: (from Writing Public Lives p. 414)

1. Position (pro/con) argument
2. Causal argument
3. Evaluative argument
4. Proposal argument
5. Refutation argument

• What kind of argument are you thinking of making?
• Write a few sentences on each type of argument, explaining how you would frame your message in each type.
• Pick one type of argument and explore in more detail how it would change your project: the genre, the audience, the appeals.

Project three timeline (UPDATED)

Here is the timeline for project 3. There are three weeks left before the project is due.

M  11/2   -- types of public arguments

W  11/4   -- occasion/genre

F   11/6  --- NO CLASS -  research day

M  11/9  --- NO CLASS -Project proposal due in d2l dropbox 8AM

W 11/11 --- NO CLASS (Veteran's Day)

F  11/13 --  first draft project workshop

M  11/16 -- project presentations/feedback
T 11/17 -- Group conferences

W 11/18 --  project presentations/feedback
TH 11/19-- group conferences

F  11/20  -- rhetorical analysis workshop
M 11/23 --

Wed 11/25  Public Argument Due 11:59 PM
THURS-SUN HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!