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Discussion: The…
Discussion: The Rhetorical Situation – Information Effect
Before You Post.
This discussion asks you to analyze and compare rhetorical features of texts that use the information effect. Please read the following examples and respond to the questions below. Note: You don’t need to address every text but should consider at least 2 in your post.
How We Learned to Be Lonely Links to an external site.by Arthur C. Brooks (The Atlantic)
This does a great job of showing you how to use in-text citations fluidly
Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United State Download Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United States (NY Times)
Air Quality Literacy: A Guide for the U of U Links to an external site.
The Shrinking of the Middle-Class Neighborhood Links to an external site. By Sophie, Kasakove Links to an external site. and Robert Gebeloff Links to an external site. (NY Time)
This is a wonderful multimodal example that uses graphics to support the essay itself
Life of Vaccines Links to an external site. (an information effect project created by a 2010 student)
Next, in a primary post of at least 200 words, address the following questions:
What characteristics, strategies, conventions, or techniques are at work in these information-effect texts? Provide examples in the form of quotations or excerpts from the texts. Remember to identify what the textual evidence you’re providing shows about information effect texts.
What strategies does each writer use to organize and interpret the facts, evidence, and researched data, and do you find these strategies effective or ineffective? Why? What key differences and similarities do you see in the rhetorical approach of each author?
Now Post.
publish a primary post of at least 200 words in which you discuss the ideas and questions above (you don’t need to address each questionbut use those questions to frame your post).
