New Media Classroom

My philosophy:

Whenever we write, we are participating in rhetoric, in the process of persuasion.  Today writing is increasingly moving online: as such, to be truly literate, we need not just write in traditional forms.  We need to write new media.

Pre-Approved Texts for the Rhetorical Analysis

Just because something’s not on here, it doesn’t mean you can don’t it. It just means that you’ll have to run it by me. (Either send me an email or come by my office hours.)

1. Get a Mac: Why your next PC should be a Mac (website, including, but not limited to, the Get a Mac commercials): http://www.apple.com/getamac/
2. Yippie Manifesto
3. The Apple ipad: http://www.apple.com/ipad/
4. Seriously So Blessed http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/
5. 9 Inventions that Prove Leonardo da Vinci was a Supervillain http://www.cracked.com/article_18407_9-inventions-that-prove-leonardo-da-vinci-was-supervillain.html
6. Glenn Beck: http://www.glennbeck.com/
7. This is why you’re fat: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
8. Shannon Hale’s blog: http://oinks.squeetus.com/
9. An article from the onion: http://www.theonion.com/ (for example, Bald Eagle Tired of Everyone Just Assuming it Supports War)
10. A Fox News online story
11. Zeitgeist Movie/Website: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
12. Avatar Movie website: http://www.avatarmovie.com/
13. Geico.com http://www.geico.com/
14. Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty: http://campaignforrealbeauty.com/
15. The Executive Branch (from White House.gov): http://www.whitehouse.gov/our_government/executive_branch/
16. The Spanish Fork Krishna temple website: http://www.utahkrishnas.com/main/home.asp
17. Organizing for America website: http://www.barackobama.com/
18. An article from copyblogger.com (i.e. “How to be Interesting” http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-be-interesting/)
19. A page from the Amnesty International website: http://www.amnesty.org/
20. A blog (or specific blog post) from one of the New York Times blogs http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html
21. The Daily Universe Bridal Guide: http://bridalguide.byu.edu/bridal_guide/ (Featured on the main page of http://universe.byu.edu/ )
22. Argument for Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc
23. Cake Wrecks: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/