Week 3.1: Critical Reading

Reading:
Understanding Rhetoric 67-111
They Say/I Say 19-41
Select one of the approved advertisements from the course website before today's class to write your paper on.

Study Question:
1. After selecting your advertisement, make a list of all the questions you have about it, as well as all of the points that you find interesting. Next, make a list of quotations, still images, characteristics of the work, or other information that has popped out at you during your viewing of the ad. Now group these pieces according to criteria that make sense to you, as Liz Losh does on pp. 87-89 of Understanding Rhetoric. Consider the questions you listed in light of your arrangement of pieces from the text. Rearrange questions and textual evidence as needed. What new insights emerge for you from this process? Note: This question has been adapted from Understanding Rhetoric.