{"id":51855,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/students-will-consider-visual-rhetoric-through-an-analysis-of-a-cultural-artifact-from-the-community-that-challenges-the-status-quo"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:38:11","slug":"students-will-consider-visual-rhetoric-through-an-analysis-of-a-cultural-artifact-from-the-community-that-challenges-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/students-will-consider-visual-rhetoric-through-an-analysis-of-a-cultural-artifact-from-the-community-that-challenges-the-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Students will consider visual rhetoric through an analysis of a cultural artifact from the community that challenges the status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students will consider visual rhetoric through an analysis of a cultural artifact from the community that challenges the status quo. Students should demonstrate an understanding of how the artifact(s) uses rhetoric to persuade its audience. Beyond explaining how, students will determine if the rhetoric involved is effective.&nbsp; To do so, students will review the artifact\u2019s central idea, audience, design, and textual components, along with evaluating the artifact as it relates to sociocultural and\/or socioeconomic factors. <\/p>\n<p>Although a cultural artifact can be just about anything, for the purposes of this assignment, students will focus on an item\u2019s packaging, platform, design, and\/or advertising\u2014its visual components.&nbsp; Some examples are: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Video game packaging<\/li>\n<li>iPhone screen<\/li>\n<li>Magazine cover<\/li>\n<li>Sneaker advertisement&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Words and images, particularly in this era, inundate us; they are ubiquitous, working to shape our thoughts, emotions, and actions.&nbsp; To navigate and negotiate this information, students will develop visual literacy, an aptitude to analyze, interpret, and articulate what information has been conveyed through an object so as to better inform their cultural literacy, the ability to understand and participate in a given culture. <\/p>\n<p><b>Requirements:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Identification of a cultural artifact;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Analysis of its cultural meaning and how that information is conveyed through the rhetoric of the object;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Defining of the creator (rhetor), user (audience), and overall purpose of the item;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Evaluation effectiveness and impact;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Interesting title;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Controlling idea (thesis);<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8Clear organizational pattern\/structure;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8MLA Format (double-spaced, 12-point font, 1\u201d margins, Times New Roman font, Works Cited page);<\/p>\n<p>\u00d83-5 popular and scholarly sources;<\/p>\n<p>\u00d85-7 pages.<\/p>\n<p><b>Audience:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00d8&nbsp; Your peers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will consider visual rhetoric through an analysis of a cultural artifact from the community that challenges the status quo. Students should demonstrate an understanding of how the artifact(s) uses rhetoric to persuade its audience. Beyond explaining how, students will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/students-will-consider-visual-rhetoric-through-an-analysis-of-a-cultural-artifact-from-the-community-that-challenges-the-status-quo\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}