What to make of Shooting War?

 

What you should have read ...

• Shooting War, by Anthony Lappé & Dan Goldman
• Review Chapter 5 and 6 in Good Reasons (Analyzing Written and Visual Arguments) ... Even though you should have all of this committed to memory, you might want to brush up a bit because this book's got both!

 

What's on the Agenda ...

• Review of SixthResponses about Shooting War ... What were your reactions?
• Defining the overall argument.
• Breaking it down. Written argument, visual argument, and reading between the lines.
• Rhetorical Workout. Flexing our rhetorical muscles to prepare for Project Two.

 

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Defining the Argument ...

• What is the overall argument? What are Lappé and Goldman trying to say?

             **Add examples from student responses to discuss??**

• Open up your Rhetorical Toolboxes. What tools do they use to say it?

             **Add examples from student responses to discuss??**

 

 

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Now let's break it down ...

This books combines written text with photography, vector illustration, and digital painting. Let's take a closer look at how each of these elements contributes to the argument, takes away from the argument, or makes it's own argument.

 

Text (Story)

**Add examples from student responses to discuss??**

 

Visuals (Photos & Images)

**Add examples from student responses to discuss?**

 

Reading between the lines.

There is a lot of extra information embedded (get it? Embedded?) in this book in the form of "marginalia" (See sections where there are newscasters and magazine covers, etc.)

 

 

How do the authors use these marginalia to advance their argument? Take a few minutes to look through the text and find a few examples.

 

 

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Rhetorical Workout!

In preparation for Project Two, break up into groups and answer the invention questions below using Shooting Wars. At the end of class, we'll reconvene and discuss your answers and how this can help you to complete Project Two.

 

 

Invention

By answering the following questions, you should generate a great deal of material that you can use in composing your rhetorical analysis. You will probably find that many parts of the text will reveal more than one aspect of its rhetoric.

 

1. What is the rhetorical situation?

 

2. What is the writer's ethos and how is it created?

 

3. What claim or proposition does the writer advance?

 

4. Considering the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs the writer assumes to be common ground with her or his audience, how strong or weak are these arguments?

 

5. How is the text arranged? What are its parts? What is their relation to one another?

 

6. What is the role of style and tone?