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Analyzing the Rhetorical Aspects of Blogs and Facebook: Homework and Group Activity

This blog post explores the rhetorical elements of blogs and Facebook, including the author's intent, audience, and the cultural context in which they are produced. It also includes a homework assignment and a group activity where students analyze the rhetorical situation of their chosen blogs.

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Analyzing the Rhetorical Aspects of Blogs and Facebook: Homework and Group Activity

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  1. Blogs and Facebook 9/1/16

  2. Agenda • Finish Group Blog activity • Setting our goals for writing blogs • Blog post #1 • Facebook activity • Homework: • Facebook readings and blog post #1

  3. Blog Group Activity • In groups of four, choose one of your blogs to rhetorically analyze. • Comment on the following, and post with “the genre of blogs”: • Rhetorical situation • Author • Intention/purpose • Audience • Content of message • Form of message • Does the message succeed in fulfilling author’s intention? • What does communication reveal about culture it was produced in?

  4. Blogging as a Genre • Rhetorical Framework for our blog assignments • Rhetorical situation • Author • Intention/purpose • Audience • Content of message • Form of message • Does the message succeed in fulfilling author’s intention? • What does communication reveal about culture it was produced in?

  5. Blog Post #1 • Using our discussion of the blog genre, write a blog post of 300-500 words that addresses why we should study Facebook, and what is rhetorical about that genre? • In writing your blog, reference at least three of our selected readings, one of which must be a scholarly source. • I will grade this based on how well you meet the rhetorical conventions of the blog genre, how clear your argument is, and how well you support the argument with evidence including our readings. • Remember to feel free to use multimodal components as this is a standard rhetorical convention with blogs. • Due Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 2pm (when class starts) – posted to our class website – blog post #1

  6. Facebook activity • In your same groups, discuss you Facebook articles and choose 1 scholarly and 1 popular that you want the class to read. • Not a lot of scholarly articles on HW, so will need to hunt some down • One person in the group should post your selection with accompanying summary to “facebook readings” • As a class, we will choose readings for next week.

  7. Homework • Read our selected Facebook articles for Tuesday, and complete blog #1

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