Due Dates:

Feeder 3.1 Monday, April 9th

Feeder 3.2: Monday, April 16th

Unit Project: Monday, April 23rd

 

Unit 3: Rhetorical Analysis Application

This assignment asks you take a close look at visual designs and make observations about the rhetorical strategies that different designs use. In categorizing these strategies, you can start thinking about the rhetorical decisions you want to make in your own application. The end product for this project is a 1,000-word explanation and mock design of an application. The details are found below.

 

Feeder 3.1 –due 3/9 

Collect 2 designed texts from at least 2 genres of design (so 4 designs total, 2 per genre). By “designed texts” I mean a mix of words and/or images on paper that are intended to stand alone and to serve some particular purpose. Consider using advertising, newspaper layouts, pages from textbooks, menus, book covers, political ads, DVD covers, menus, etc. By “genre” I mean some category of design that makes sense to you–consider things such as watch ads, soup labels, university websites, hip hop artist teeshirts, etc.

Next to each design, closely read each page, what sort of strategies and aesthetics does the form take? Do the design strategies work to create an ethical appeal (ethos)? a pathetic appeal (pathos)? or a logical appeal (logos)? (or a little of each?) HOW do they work to create this appeal? Who is the audience for these designs, what ideologies are at play for this audience, and why might these types of appeals work?

You will write down your observations of the strategies used in the categories you’ve identified in a brief analysis of 500-750 words.

 

 

Feeder 3.2–due 3/16

By the end of our second week together for this unit, you should have two genres of design, and a list of the rhetorical strategies you noticed in each genre of design

Pick ONE genre from your designs and find at least two strategies that genre uses in order to be persuasive. Then, you will prototype your own application from that genre. Consider audience and rhetorical situation when thinking about what application you want to develop. Then in 500-750 words, describe how you will design your application and what will your application do?

 

Unit 3 –due April 23^rd

You will design an application mockup using Adobe XD and write a 1,000 word paper on your design of the application

It is key that you do the following:

1. Include a clear thesis statement
2. Explain the genre of you chose
3. Describe the purpose of your application
4. Describe the audience of your appications, thinking about what ideologies circulate for this group
5. Describe what type of appeals are at play within your category. Do other applications within your category use the same appeal? Why might this be? Are there outliers? Why might this be?

Requirements:

• At least 1,000 words (excluding works cited)
• must cite and reference your evidence
• works cited page
• At least 3 designs ATTACHED to the paper (can be in PDF)

 

 

 

Hi Class,

We will be doing a number of different blog posts throughout the semester to practice our writing. This week, I want you to respond to the first chapter of  Digital_Humanities by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp.

Specifically, I would like you to define Digital Humanities.

A good place to start is to think about the definition provided in the reading: