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Rationale Writing

Rationale Writing. Issues and expectations. Purpose/theme. You need to have a purpose for your piece or a theme (this will depend on text type – non-fiction usually a purpose and fiction usually a theme). What do you want your audience to think/feel and/or understand through your piece?.

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Rationale Writing

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  1. Rationale Writing Issues and expectations

  2. Purpose/theme You need to have a purpose for your piece or a theme (this will depend on text type – non-fiction usually a purpose and fiction usually a theme). What do you want your audience to think/feel and/or understand through your piece?

  3. Connection to Course Part 2: Language and Mass communication (textual bias, language used to persuade, advertising and its effects, etc…) Ideally link to a text studied that links to your text type – for example Still Killing Us Softly and the portrayal of women in advertising, study of subjectivity in Hammas front pages and coverage, study invasion of privacy through texts like “Big Buddy is Watching” and “3 Way Calling”.

  4. Or Part 4: Critical Study in our case 1984 or Death of a Salesman This would need to be more thematic of a connection – connecting to events on a superficial level is not enough. 1984 things like the loss of privacy, the use of fear to control and manipulate the population, how things are not always as they appear (appearance vs. reality), etc…Link it to an event is fine, but also discuss the theme it illuminates and the one you will illuminate.

  5. Ethos/pathos/logos You should not really cover all three unless a speech. Having a fact or statistics is not necessarily the use of logos – does the facts and stats persuade the audience of your opinion. This will also depend on your text type –fiction not really using any of the above. Non-fiction if article and objective then you should not really have the above either. It depends on the text type. Cover 1-2 if it is there and clear and you have used it for a specific purpose – not guess work afterwards.

  6. Ethos/pathos/ logos Forget about credible – ask yourself if it persuades the audience of your idea… Is there a solid emotion you mean the audience to feel that helps them support your opinion or cause? Are you using statistical and factual information to support ideas that in turn persuade the reader to believe your overall purpose and side with you? Do you appeal to the ethics of your audience to support your idea?

  7. Get to devices common for your text type Opinion columns – use of we, I, us, - pronouns and why they are there – not just inclusive – go beyond. Do you use statistics and facts to help support your ideas (even if NOT logos). Is the piece bias/subjective vs. objective example and why is this okay for this text type. Choose 2 – 3 if possible and do Device, example, explain.

  8. fiction Short story – dialogue, simile, metaphor, allusion, etc… Choose 2 – 3 if possible and do Device, example, explain. So if write a script – stage directions and dialogue a must. Mood is always a good one, but avoid only mood, diction, tone all the time as they are in every text type but not as specific as say stage directions.

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