What you should have done:

 

Reread Chapter 6 of Good Reasons.

 

    

 

What will happen this week:

 

Tuesday:

 

Discuss the reading and discuss how the principles of rhetorical analysis can be

applied to film.

 

Begin screening the film, Diary of the Dead.

 

 

 

For Thursday:

 

Write a short (500 word) initial response to the film and how you might analyze it (paying attention to Chapter 6 and the invention questions below).

 

Post a link to this short response on the wiki.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday:

 

Finish screening the film.

 

Class discussion of the film and the initial responses from the class.

 

Get into small groups and draft a group analysis, using the invention questions  provided.

 

Before the next class:

 

Post your group's analysis to the wiki and feel free to include links to video clips,

images and sound files.

 

 

 

 

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 film arranged? What are its parts? What is their relation to one another?

 

6. What is the role of style and tone?

 

 

Tastes like chicken!