Class Expectations
Best way to contact me outside of class.
What is email? (more specifically, what is mariyak@uark.edu)
Real life examples of this genre include the Smokey the Bear & "This is you brain on drugs" campaigns.
What are PSAs?
How you speak/write to get your message across.
The choices you make as you read & write.
What is rhetoric?
One convention of this genre: limited to 280 characters.
What are Tweets/X posts?
The place to find lesson plans if you ever missed class.
These are short videos meant to convince someone to watch a movie.
What are movie trailers?
The specific situation you’re writing for.
The context you're writing in.
What is a rhetorical situation?
These opinionated pieces offer a writer's take on an album, song, or musician.
What are music reviews?
Your grade for any assignment will mostly be these two numbers.
0 & 100.
The medium for this genre: television. The goal: convince you to buy something.
What are television ads?
Writing (or other types of media) defined by a shared set of characteristics.
What is genre?
This genre is a short article created by a business, an organization, or an institution
and sent to media outlets such as newspapers, radio and TV stations, websites, and online bulletin boards
with he goal of having that media release the story to its audience.
What are press releases?
The use of this is absolutely banned in my class.
What is AI?
Examples of this often rely on attention-grabbing images or sounds, tell stories, and include a call to action for the audience
The most effective ones also tend to include a memorable slogan or catchphrase.
What are PSAs?
Shared characteristics of a particular genre.
What are genre conventions?
This genre is an opinion piece written for a newspaper or magazine on a topic of interest to the publication’s audience.
It is the opinion of the writer and present a focused, informed argument about a topic on which the author has some form of expertise.
Criteria for getting an "A" in this class.
Attendance, participating, completing all assignments.
These medium for this genre: television. The goal: to persuade viewers to not vote for its creators' opponents.
What are political smear campaigns?
Acronym that helps you figure out parts of a rhetorical situation.
What is SOAPS?
This genre is an opinion piece written in the form of a letter.
It most frequently responds to a specific article from the publication in which it appears.
What is a letter to the editor?