What does it mean to analyze a text rhetorically?
Get together with a group of three or four. Pick one artifact to focus on. On one blog (with everyone’s names listed somewhere) through through the question: what does it mean to analyze this artifact rhetorically? What does it mean to think of this as a rhetorical text? How is this different than how you would analyze the text in a literature course, or a film or art history course?
In a small group or individually, choose one of the cultural artifacts that was discussed in the question of the day. Think about what might be involved in a rhetorical analysis of this cultural artifact. What would you focus on for the textual analysis? What kinds of research about contexts (or communicative chains) would you have to do to complete your analysis? Do you have a hunch of where this analysis might lead you? How would it help you understand the artifact better?
please complete the following information sheet before the end of class (or the end of the day if you don’t have an electronic device):
ENGL 245: Writing and Money 