Pick a topic you feel passionate about and assert a stance: ban single-use plastics, pay student-athletes, make college free. Your challenge will be to not use a traditional essay format.
Present your argument in a new multimodal form.
Identify a relevant social issue and stance. This will typically be a problem and solution argument.
Investigate and support your stance with a thesis, sources, and analysis. You will need 5-8 sources to back up your argument. This is not a rhetorical analysis. You are not a rhetor trying to inform, persuade, or argue your own idea.
Determine an audience, select a form that is appropriate, and adapt your analysis to this form.
This means you will transform your argument into a visual, auditory, or spatial mode. Examples include podcasts, videos, skits, songs, blog posts, game boards, and even comics and advertisements. Just not an essay! Because you are incorporating sources, your project might have multiple components (e.g. your Instagram might have both video and text posts. Your magazine might have a cover page and an article. Your art pieces might have a supplemental guide)
Attend not only to your argument, but also to demonstrating your ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos.
Submit a reference page of accurately cited sources.
Use at least 5 sources for the project (we want an argument, not an opinion!)
use them to support the argument part of the project, not your rationale.
THIS IS THE SECOND PART TO THE PAPER
5 PAGES
After completing your multimodal argument, construct a rationale. A rationale is like a reflection in that you will evaluate your choices. However, your rationale’s goal is to justify (or “rationalize”) your choices.
Write a 4 to 6-page rationale explaining your rhetorical choices in designing the multimodal portion of the project.
Why did you choose this medium? Was it effective? How did you utilize it?
What sources did you use? Are they credible?
What appeals do you use? Why?
Who was your audience? How did you appeal to them?
How does your piece appeal to kairos?
Prove to me that you are GOOD at rhetoric, that you were highly intentional and aware.
