SPC 4680 Spring 2022 Essay #1: Web Page Assignment Due Date: 2/13 Post in Assignment on Canvas Min. words: 1000 (3 page min.) Syllabus: 1. Essay #1(15 points): DUE ON CANVAS 2/13 MIDNIGHT- NO LATE POSTING Your first essay is a Web critique. Find a Web Page that you consider interesting. Your principal aim is to “make sense” of the page, describing it to a possible interest party. Such sense making will be facilitated if you carefully analyze the key symbols in the page. Things like visual and text elements, how are they put together, where are they located in the page provide plenty of clues about the effectiveness or interest the page can create. It’s your job to explain it in detail. In addition, you need to print the page for the instructor’s benefit. 1000 words min. (3 pages min.) Additional Guidelines for Essay #1 This essay intends to familiarize you with a neo-Aristotelian format when analyzing a Website/a speech/movie/text/artifact. One extra suggestion: look for a site that might present issues that are not for commercial use, rather for changing of attitudes, beliefs, etc. One such example can be a site to adopt a pet. Please consider the following as part of the format: a. A brief description, in your own words, of the Website selected along with the justification of your choice. b. Provide a description of how the text elements and the visuals [ads, pictures, videos] are connected, if at all. (FORMAT/ARRANGEMENT) c. Consider the language and the visual images as language, and explain how is the STYLE of the Website: is the style appropriate, do they use correct language? Does it utilize slang and/or inside references, for people who already know the product/site/images, etc? d. Consider explaining how rhetorical is the Website in your view, is it effective? Is it appropriate? How much does it influence audiences, by the way it is presented as a Website? (PURPOSE- to Persuade/to instruct-or inform/ to entertain, which one is the most powerful purpose as presented in the site?) e. Who is the AUDIENCE? Here you need to look at the following: i. The audience that is already interested/influenced by the topic and/or the site itself. ii. Audience members who will NOT be influenced by the site, and why, in your opinion? iii. Who are the most possible Audience members that MIGHT be influenced by this site? In other words, who could be rhetorically persuaded/influenced on basis of the way the Website is presented to the public. f. Your overall opinion whether this is a rhetorically good or rhetorically poor site, in terms of its ability to influence people in their values/beliefs/interests. Good Luck! Mandatory: Reference page with the site you examine. APA or MLA citation style. This page does not count for the word count of the Essay 1. Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 3 Page Tags: communications mental health Rhetorics User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.
