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Composing Presentations
Purpose
Many of
us read various types of texts on a daily–from books to magazines
to email to food labels. But as we know, there is a lot of contradictory
information that gets presented in these different texts, and there are
some texts that we need to read even though we are not the intended audience.
And with some texts, writers intentionally try to be opaque. Therefore,
today we will work on developing strategies for engaging with texts in
critical ways.
Discussion–Assignment Sequence
Student will have the opportunity to ask questions about the remaining Assignment Sequence: Proposal, Audience Research Memo, Final Text
Activity–Reading Critically
You will be assigned to one of five groups. In your group you and your peers will...
- Individually read the magazine article that instructor has handed out.
- Make notes on the work that happening in each paragraph (In other words, summarize each paragraph and explain its purpose for the overall piece)
- Collaboratively, decide who the author of the article is? who the audience is? and the purpose of the article?
- How does the author support his argument?
- Do you think the author's approach is effective for an opinion piece? How might you revise this article to better fulfill the writer's argument and purpose? What if the purpose was to report on the state of the journalism industry?
Submit your collaborative work at the end of class for a process grade.