ENGL 1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: New Literacies, Visual Rhetoric, Rhetorical Situation
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Texts what people write in words (verbal rhetoric), what people say (oral rhetoric) and multimedia texts made up of both words and images (visual and multimodal rhetoric) Rhetorical situation all 3 of these combined. Critical literacy a life skill that entails knowing how to read, analyze, understand and even create texts that function as powerful arguments. Multimedia literacy a careful way of reading, analyzing, and understanding media (visual, verbal, and other rhetorical texts) Annotations brief points of analysis or observation. They indicate what strategies of persuasion are at work in each part of the article. Used to add your own marks on points that you find provocative or interesting. As you develop your own skills of analyzing written rhetoric, you can also use annotations to help you identify and track your observations on how rhetoric works. Rhetoric suffered slight marginalization in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it has since made a strong return.
