CA610i Rhetoric and the Internet
Final Paper Requirements
Graduate Students
- The paper must be 20-32 pages/6000-10,000 words.
- The paper must be emailed to rgh@rghoward.com on or before the due date at 5 PM via email attachment in pdf., .rtf, .or .doc format.
- Undergraduate Students
- The paper must be 8-32 pages/2000-8,000 words.
- The paper must cite at least 2 texts from the course syllabus.
- The paper must be emailed to rgh@rghoward.com on or before the due date at 5 PM via email attachment in pdf., .rtf, .or .doc format.
Final Paper Prompt
Your paper must address all parts of the following request in a holistic and single essay
"Document" a text, audio, graphic, video, or other discourse that occurring through network media technology by storing it as a digital file or small group of files on a DVD, CD, or Flash RAM device that can be inserted in a standard laptop computer. Your media must be turned in to the instructor on the day of your presentation. After that day, you may not change your primary document. Please note if your document/medium was produced for use under the Macintosh or Windows operating system on the outside of the physical object itself or its container. Also, note your name, contact information, and if you need it returned on the outside of the physical media itself or its container. For redundancy's sake, please place a copy of your written analysis on the media as well as emailing it (just the text) to the instructor.
Perform a rhetorical analysis that demonstrates a significant social function of the discourse you have documented. In that analysis, place the document in a larger context. Articulate a rhetorical theory or perspective that values specific kinds of discourse. Argue from evidence in the document and through the perspective of the specific rhetorical theory or theories you have outlined that the benefit or deterioration of a specific social function is a result of (or occurs within) the discourse surrounding the fragment you have chosen. Explain why that social function is good. Demonstrate how the document participates in debilitating or augmenting that social function. Suggest further research that these initial findings indicate.