Visual Rhetorical Analysis
Please, click below for Visual Analysis assignments:
3/9/18 Introduction due for workshop
3/13/18 Paper due for conference
3/16/18 Rough draft due on Turnitin.com by midnight
3/23/18 Final draft due on Turnitin.com by midnight
1. What was the original context for both ads (what was the historical, cultural, social, and/or political context of each ad according to the author)?
2. What was the author's intent/purpose in bringing these two ads together?
3. What cultural lens does the author of the essay use to interpret the advertisements? ?
-How does the essay writer's point of view differ from other viewers'?
-What assumptions and values does the author bring to the context of this essay?
Turnitin.com
Period 1
Class ID: 17002167
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Period 3
Class ID: 17002154
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Period 7
Class ID: 17002122
Password: beach
Introduction Due: Friday, March 9th
Rough drafts are often messy, and that's because the main purpose of a rough draft is usually just to get your ideas down on the page so that you can start organizing and developing them in the next draft. Your assignment for our next class is to write a very rough draft of your visual rhetorical analysis essay INTRODUCTION, which we'll then discuss during your conference.
You started writing about both of your ads in the past few weeks, and the purpose of this very rough introduction draft is to bring all your ideas together in one place. While there aren't any real rules about how you should organize this very rough draft, try to include the following, and try to write at least 150-200 words:
- a summary of each ad where you describe the ad in detail and also clearly explain its rhetorical context (purpose, target audience, and genre). Remember that you're supposed to imagine that your reader hasn't seen either of your ads, so you have to describe them.
- some new analysis of each ad where you elaborate on how you think each ad works to persuade its audience. Feel free to use what you wrote last week, but add more to it.
If you get stuck, refer back to what you wrote for the previous assignments, or take a look at the list of questions on the "Analyzing What You See" assignment sheet on our website. Bring a printed or electronic copy of your draft to your conference so that you can refer to it and take notes.
