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Metacognitive Moves Paper

     When strategizing how I would create the rhetorical situation within my project I wanted to focus on interpersonal communication. I created a situation in which a man running for State Rep is accused of a sexual scandal during his campaign. This obviously throws a huge wrench into the campaign causing a lot of stress and planning throughout the whole campaign and its interaction with the community. In “Writing Identities” one of the clear first parts of the article say you need to create a character that people trust. While I agree with that in a sense that you need to trust the character when they are the protagonist, however I wanted to create non-protagonist characters. I wanted to give the audience a situation that wasn’t really guided by myself as the writer and open a space where i think the issue would be discussed if it were a real life situation.      The first textual genre I made was an initial campaign speech. I needed an introduction for ...

Final Project Part 1

Campaign Speech This is just some insight on who I wanted Dan Smith to be. I wanted him to be a politician who’s politics weren’t actually that good, that way I could create a scandal which kind of goes against exactly what he stands for. Obviously I would never vote for a person with these ideas but I think it would be interesting to step into the shoes of his campaign manager trying to diffuse that fire and defend him. This is also his introductory speech and first of the campaign. ____________________________________________________________________________ Address audience* My name is Dan Smith and I’m running for State representative in Pennsylvania. I chose to do this because as a native philadelphian I looked at what was happening around my home and I decided something needed to be done. I am running to enact change within the city to give our children better education, to bring back our values, and to fix a system that hasn’t been working for a long time. The p...

Rhetorical Situation Ideas

Liz Chips apology statement      -Offensive racially insentitive commercial Liz Realtors dealing with the selling of an undisclosed haunted house      -Poltergeist, they want their money back or to pay for someone to come and cleanse the house Liz Restaurant on Kitchen Nightmares      -Defamation of character on the show     Accident with Liz Airlines (functioning as Boeing) recalling items and parts to a military and needing to rescind a contract or recreate one