slides from august 21
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Class slides from August 21. At the end are notes from the "contest" to analyze the rhetorical situation of the four documents we've been looking at this week.TRANSCRIPT
BNL$to$bring:$• Syllabus$• Printout$of$Topic$sheets$with$BNL$notes.$• Printouts$of$class$ac=vity$sheets$for$rhetorical$situa=on$• Red,$black,$and$blue$pens$and$a$pencil$
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Knowledge$most$other$folks$don’t$have:$“(e.g., regarding a scientific field or methods for assembling a piece of furniture or means of assessing responsibility for an oil spill)” On the bright side, unless you are a researcher, you probably won’t care whether something is D, P, or TC, or none of them, because the process of analyzing the communicative situation is largely the same. We’ll take that up now.$
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Contest:$$• Groups$get$sheets$to$write$on.$Each$sheet$IDs$one$of$the$example$texts$that$we$
have$considered$so$far.$• Syllabus$• YouTube$guitar$lesson$• U$of$M$brand$policy$• DADT$report.$
• First,$groups$will$brainstorm$author$purposes;$imagine$as$many$as$possible.$You$must$add$at$least$one$item$to$each$sheet.$
• Second,$groups$will$consider$what$first$group$wrote$for$author$purposes$and$then$IDs$as$many$audiences$as$possible.$
• Third,$groups$iden=fy$as$many$aspects$of$the$material$and$social$context$as$possible.$
• Fourth,$groups$consider$the$available$media$and$modes$of$communica=on.$(How$can$this$author$reach$these$audiences$for$these$purposes?)$
Can$you$see$how$some$texts/documents$can$be$professional$communica=on$for$one$audience$and$technical$communica=on$(or$not$DP&TC$at$all)$for$another?$
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These$two$topic$sheets$represent$longer$and$perhaps$more$complicated$reading.$
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