Rhetoric
What is Rhetoric?
The art of Persuasion.
What are the 3 rhetorical appeals?
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
What is visual rhetoric?
Creating visual arguments through the use of visual language.
Name one strategy of disinformation. Define/Explain it
Impersonation
Emotion
Polarization
Conspiracy
Discredit
Trolling
What's my first name?
Timothy
True or false: The most logical argument always wins.
False, often it takes more than just logic to win an arguement.
Finish the line: Logos does not equal ?
logic
What is "sustained readability"?
Strategies that keep your reader engaged throughout the text and make it accessible. What keeps your reader reading
Identify the two things incorrect the the formatting of the in-text citation:
A professor or professerology argues that, "students can have difficulties analyzing citations." (Smith, 112)
Comma in the middle and period before the parentheses
In Synthesizing Relationship Drama assignment. We had to talk to a couple. What were their names?
What Greek Philosopher is credited with developing the basics of the system of rhetoric?
Aristotle
You get a text message that says “help me….please!”
What appeal is used to persuade you to help?
Pathos/emotion
Appropriate use of visual rhetoric, especially color and font, is most associated with which of the three rhetorical appeals?
Ethos
What is the difference between slacktivism and activism?
Acceptable:
Call to action
No meaningful way to effect change
Disqualifying answer:
disingenuous
What are the three elements of a strong thesis?
(Hint: "most people say...however...This matters because")
Stasis, Destabilization, Resolution
What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation?
What are two ways we can show ethos in our writing?
through showing our knowledge (certificates, degrees, accomplishments)
Aligning our message with our audience's core values
citations & attributions
Name three compositional features that can be used in visual rhetoric.
font, size, space/organization, color, images/graphs
What are the three elements of a rhetorical situations?
HINT: the acronym is the same as the name of a clothing retailer OR "mind the ?"
Genre
Audience
Purpose
What is my field of research?
Native Americans, Native American Literature, performance studies
What do I mean when I say "the exigency of a text"?
What do I mean when I say "appeal to your audience's logics" and "appeal to your audience's ethos"?
logics = the way that people think through the world
ethos = core values and beliefs
What does the phrase "material reality/existence" mean when referring to a text or object of visual rhetoric?
(Hint: Yellow Stop Sign)
An object's design is not always a product of desire but convenience/availability. That was the only way to make the object because of practical limitations.
Stop Signs used to be yellow because we did not have good enough red paint to withstand the elements.
What are "truncation" and "phrasal searching" when performing research using Boolean Search?
truncation= shortening words to include variations of that word (ex/ violen*)
phrasal searching= looking for a specific phrase or combination of words so you put it in quotes (ex/ "video games")
Define the following word: Disabuse
Disabuse: to persuade someone that an idea is bad or incorrect