This week's blog prompt will (hopefully) be a little more fun. That said, I was disappointed by many of the blog posts from last week: many of you did not directly address the questions I asked you to, and very few of you engaged deeply in the questions of audience, etc. I need you all to take these blog assignments seriously and to engage more deeply than you might be comfortable. This is a place to take risks, to experiment with points of view you might not ordinarily entertain.
This week, you'll be using Compose, Design, Advocate. If you do not have this book or They Say, I Say yet, you absolutely must buy them.
Using and quoting from CDA, Texas A&M, and BYU, write a 500-word (minimum) blog prompt which is a rhetorical analysis of either one of trailers from IMDB's "Opening this Week" section, a Graywolf Press bestseller (i.e. the cover of the book & the writeup), or this Sia music video. If you use the movie trailer, you must cite portions of the video with the timestamp (1:30), and if you cite the music video, you must do the same. If you cite her lyrics (which I encourage you to do), use her official lyrics page and cite accordingly. We will discuss rhetorical analysis on Thursday, but you should look through the websites and your book. Bring CDA to class Thursday.
As usual, the extended prompt means that a quiz is at stake here too.
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