Responding with Creative Rhetoric

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?