Students were assigned a third rhetorical analysis pulling a video from YouTube and writing 500-750 words on it. The class discussed examples and practice of rhetorical analysis. They also checked in on typography remixes and research blogs, and planned to discuss mid-term progress and topics of interest for future digital rhetoric studies.

1. October 7, 2014

2. Today
1) Rhetorical Analysis 3 Assigned
2) Some examples/practice
3) Checking in: typography remixes
4) Rounding the mid-term: how are your research
blogs going?

3. Rhetorical Analysis 3
For your third rhetorical analysis, you’re
going to pull a video from YouTube and
write about it. You’ll be able to draw from
all of our readings for your analytical
framework. You should end up with 500-750
words.

4. EXAMPLES

15. Time permitting: remix a Pony

16. For Thursday:
No readings. We’ll go over the mid-term
terms and we’ll start the work of
filling in the blanks for the rest of the
semester. Be thinking about digital
rhetoric topics that interest you.