Rhetorics

  T​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​hink about the different subfields you have studied in this course and the different essays you wrote in relation to each one. Now, compose an essay that explains what rhetoric is, how it helps us to write properly, what each subfield teaches us about communication and writing, and what you wrote about in each paper and why. Then, explain how your learning will influence your future writing. What are some questions your learning leads to and how will that help you become a more careful writer? For example, the subfield of embodied rhetorics teaches us that we transmit and receive all information through our bodies but that bodies are not all the same. So next time you are writing, how will you appeal to the needs of real people? Wil you include more descriptive words to help people see, feel, smell, and taste the things you are talking about? Will you skip the complicated words in case your readers are tired? Or, if you need to use complicated terms, will you be sure to define them? Intended Audience Your paper will address an audience of your peers, that is, other students. Imagine that you are trying to explain to them what you learned and how that will influence you in being a more careful and thoughtful writer who thinks about the needs of your readers. Steps 1) Make a list of the different subfields we studied by listing the course’s different units: traditional, embodied, and material/new materialist. Do not include multimodal (unless you want to) since we did not have a chance to really delve into it this summer. 2) Summarize what each subfield has to say about how we learn and write. 3) Next, think about how the paper you wrote for each unit responded to what that subfield had to say. For example, how did you intend your essay on embodied rhetoric to reflect what you learned about embodied rhetorics? What were the specific choices you made regarding the topic and what you had to say about it?