Rhetorics of Crisis in Times of Disaster

Assignment 2: due 9/4 at 9:55am

As indicated in the syllabus, in addition to the reading your assignment is to find a rhetorical object (music video, image, article headline, advertisement, or whatever you find that you think counts as an artifact) that relates to a crisis from the past year. You might remember a crisis or emergency and search around the Internet for things related to it. Choose something that catches your eye. Once you do so, write a rhetorical analysis of what you found. Respond in 250 words. Describe and interpret your textual object. Your reading for this weekend mentions some key terms for rhetorical analysis: Audience, Purpose, Genre, Media, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. While I don’t expect you to cover all of those areas (but you can try!), your response should analyze how at least three of them are working in your object. I will be looking for you to mention those three terms in your piece. Please also remember to describe BEFORE you interpret.

How to post: To the left of this post, there is a link “Leave a comment.” Click there to create your post. You should post a link to your rhetorical object and paste your 250 rhetorical analysis below that link.

Me

Hello everyone! Please turn in your assignment by posting it as a comment in response to this post. First click on the header “Me” to open the full post. Then press the “comment” button below to add your writing.

Since I have added you as a “Contributor,” your comments will not be public to the rest of the class until I press “Publish,” which I will not be doing for this assignment. If anything goes wrong, please email me to let me know and email me your written work as well. Looking forward to reading your writing!

Me

Hello everyone! Please turn in your assignment below as a comment in response to this post. Since I have added you all as “Contributors” to the blog, this means that what you post doesn’t go public to the rest of the course until I press “Publish,” which I won’t be doing for this assignment. Looking forward to reading what you write!