For the Generative Criticism paper, students analyze a new artifact using a theoretical approach derived from communication scholarship. This 10-12 page paper, and should be turned in as a word file into our blackboard portal.
You will have a work cited page (not part of the total page count) that should include your text book (if you use it to understandthe method) and the citations for your communication scholarship. You are requried to have three outside sources. Citations for this paper should be APA.
Due Date: April 26th, by the end of the day (midnight), through a TURNITIN Portal on Blackboard.
Suggested Structure: Here is a structure you can rely on, complete with important elements for each section and the suggested precentage of the overall paper that it takes up.
Introduction (10-15% of the total paper)
Must include a Research Question and Thesis
Justification of the Artifact (10-20% of the total paper)
Here you tell your reader about the speech you chose and why you consider it to be rhetoric.
Method of Analysis (15%-20% of the total paper)
This will include the theoretical approach, or mehtod, you are using for this analysis. This section should probably include your three scholarly sources.
Analysis (20%-50% of the total paper)
This will include the analysis of the artifact, using your theoretical approach.
Conclusion (5-15% of the total paper)
revisit your research question and your thesis.
Category: Rhetorical Criticism
For the final project, you will write about a 2,000-word final paper in which you will use one rhetorical method to analyze a text you choose. For the theoretical part, you choose any of the rhetorical approaches we have discussed this semester (ideological approach). For analysis , you can choose a speech, an episode from a TV show, series, or journalistic material (three editorials, three feature stories, or three pieces of hard news). You can choose something old or new, something scholars have written about or not, and/or something which is not controversial at all or too controversial. There are no taboos on the topic you choose. Just write a good research paper and do not worry about how sensitive or not the topic is. We still have some freedom in doing academic research.
1. An introduction in which you introduce the topic, write your thesis, explain why you are writing this paper, and an outline for the paper.
2. A discussion of the theoretical part in which you briefly discuss the theory and explain why you think it is useful to use this particular theory to discuss the text.
3. A discussion of the artifact (speech, episode, a movie) in which you highlight a particular rhetorical aspect and explain why it matters to understand it.
4. conclusion which restates the thesis you mention in the introduction, the limitations of your research, and how one can use your work to do further studies about the same theory or artifact.
5. list of references in APA style (no less than 7 reliable sources) and the eighth source must be our text book. (Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, 5th Edition)
Tips:
1. Use signal verbs
2. Use logical progression when moving from an idea to another or from paragraph to another.
3. Please organize your entire paper APA format. Formatting is not only for sources. It is for the entire paper
4. Please make sure that the paper is free or grammatical and spelling mistakes
5. Please write in standard English.
6. Even if you are using an ideological approach, do not turn your paper into a political platform. We are doing rhetocial criticism, not a political argumentation. I care about your skills not the pronouns you use.
7. Use he, she, they, it, or any pronoun that reflects your worldview.
8. Please remember to use formal style.
Administrative Agency
1. Choose a Federal Administrative Agency (short list in the textbook, p. 392) or another agency of interest (click here). https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies
2. Conduct a web search on your selected agency. Read at least two credible articles or web pages related to the topic.
3. Prepare a brief summary explaining the history of the agency and what it is responsible for.
4. Conclude with how the agency benefits today’s business environment and provide an example.
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Requirements for this exercise:
Type your report in a single-spaced Word document. How long should it be? Long enough to fully respond to the questions/instructions – includes supporting details and relates to the topic in full. A scholarly assessment of this topic typed in single spacing would likely be about a half page in length and contain at least two robust paragraphs.
(This is not a formal APA or MLA style writing; however, please include the web links at the end of your report or within the paragraphs; in-text citing, etc. is not required.)
[Written assignment instructions: Click the “Start Assignment” link to the upper right. This will open a dialogue box for you to upload your document. Be sure to click the Submit Assignment button after uploading. You will receive a message (and confetti) indicating your assignment has been submitted.]