Responding
with Creative Rhetoric
Write a proposal letter.
(Use a business letter format.) Submit it to me using your group’s Google Doc.
Due Monday, April 29.
What message do you want to convey with your
rhetoric? Why? Who is your audience?
What
point do you want to get across to what audience?
Attach a SOAPSTone for your rhetoric. Use complete
sentences.
What medium (or media) do you want to use to
convey your message? How does the medium (media) suit the message? What will
make it rhetorically effective? (In other words, how will it persuade, inform,
and/or engage an audience?)
ideas:
anti-ad(s)(Adbusters Culturejamming)
satire
(writing, visual, video) (The Onion, "A Modest Proposal")
public
service announcement (PSA)
a short documentary
informative,
persuasive visualization (on wealth inequality, on drone strikes)
dystopian
fiction (Brave New World) (This could be in the form of prose, a script,
and/or video.)
activist fiction (The Jungle by Upton Sinclair)
poem-to-the-editor ("A Scream to the Editor" by Charles Olson
read by Jimmy Tarantino)
letter-to-the-editor (Gloucester Daily Times, New York Times, etc.)
letter
writing campaign (Action Tips: Organize a Letter Writing Campaign)
public
protest (including signs)
public
meeting (including speech and visuals)
private
meeting (including hand-out and visuals)
How will you use research to make your rhetoric
effective?
Consult
at least three sources of information related to the message.
Consult
at least three sources of information related to the medium.
Attach an annotated works consulted page.
How will each member of the group contribute to
creating the rhetorical response to your topic?
What do you hope to accomplish with your rhetoric?
