Monday, April 4, 2011

The Rhetorical Situation

We check the grammar handout.

What is rhetoric? Think Greece. Athens, not Sparta.

Read section 5b on page 46.  We discuss.

Groups discuss Naylor in terms of audience, topic, purpose, context, genre.

Library project:  We go to the library where you find some different genres of writing and describe their characteristics.

In your daybook, list this information for three different items:

Title--

Genre--

Characteristics--

For instance:  Sports Illustrated
                      popular magazine
                      full color, long and short articles, many ads with men in mind, many pictures with each article, small(?) print for articles, easy to tell what is an article and what is an ad.

Homework:
If you don't finish this project in the library you may complete it at home using any written material you have -- a letter, an email, a piece of advertising from snail mail, a greeting card.

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