Rather than taking a final exam for your final evaluative experience, this assignment asks that you demonstrate your knowledge of the rhetorical situation. Specifically, this assignment asks you to write about how you will revise your argument in Essay 4 for a different medium and audience. How would you express this position if you were making a commercial, designing a billboard, making a blog, or creating a magazine ad? After choosing a specific audience for your message and the new medium in which you want to state that message, make every effort to present your message in this new medium (the visual representation will be the new medium). Your new visual will be designed for the presentation (during finals week); this blog prompt is asking you to analyze the rhetorical choices you made in shifting your argument for this new medium. [Note: the post is due before the presentation; your visual does not need to be complete for you to write the blog post, but you’ll want to have a plan/sketch of it to write about it.]
Write a blog post in which you explain how you revised your argument essay for this new audience and medium and what you learned from doing so. In this post, you want to accomplish the following things:
- remind readers of the context and give an overview of your argument for Essay 4
- describe what medium you have chosen for the rhetorical revision
- explain in detail the choices you made in turning this into a visual ad for mainstream culture (as opposed to a more academic setting)
- what you learned about the rhetorical process (issues of audience—including location, form, visual appeals, etc.) from making these changes
