COM ARTS 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Boal, Groupthink, Mpra Language
30 Oct 2014
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Your exam includes 50 multiple choice questions based upon all the material covered in the course since the last exam. This study guide lists the specific topics from which exam questions will be drawn. The exam will cover material from lecture including audiovisual material, the assigned west & turner chapters, and assigned articles in the course reader. The context in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse, situation that calls for discourse. Discourse can alter reality through changing people"s thoughts and actions. Rhetoric is bound to a context and can transform context. Exigence-no a physical problem, an imperfection that is not just a problem but is marked by urgency that can be addressed by discourse (global warming) deals with social truths and realities. Audience- always requires and audience, mediators of change. Constraints-anything in the situation that limits or directs choices (traditions, beliefs, attitudes ) A system of shared meanings that represents the world for us.
