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Make-Up Blog 1

Write a brief reflection on your experience in this course. How will you use these skills now that the class is over?

Multimedia Argument Reflection

This is a counterpart to your Multimedia Argument project. Write 200-250 words reflecting on the choices you made for your multimedia argument. What program did you use? What theme did you choose? What was the argument? What images did you choose and why? What sounds you choose, and rhythm patterns? Tempo (speed)? How will your argument affect your audience?

Week 14 Blog

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/news/economy/food-stamps-work-requirements/index.html Do you find the title of this article appropriate to its content? How was the title been designed to skew a reader's understanding of the decision by Trump described in the article? What kind of appeal is this? Do you think it constitutes a logical fallacy? If so, how? Which fallacy?

Spring Break

Tell me me about your favorite Spring Break song. (this does not have to be spring-break-themed) Spend some time home alone listening to your song. Describe your listening experience. Outline the rhetorical situation. author/argument/audience/purpose/tone/content/design

Week 9 Three Billboards

“What you need to become a detective is love, because through love comes calm, and through calm comes thought, and you need thought to detect things sometimes.”

Week 7 Blog: MLK arguments

Outline an argument that you see in the MLK letter, filling in these points according to the Toulmin model of argumentation, discussed in Ch. 3 of your textbook: Claim (I have a right to be in Birmingham.) Reason Evidence Warrant Backing In addition, plot the rhetorical situation of the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Author/Argument/Audience? Tone? Medium? Genre? How is the argument arranged/organized?