Writing Assignment:

Reflect on a selected visual image. Make a well-considered and objective point about the image in a short film. Apply the lessons from Chapter 3 of McWhorter's Reflections chapter in clear ways. Quote the part of the text that applies to your observations, critiques, and/or opinions about the impact of the image.

I expect you to use the descriptive and narrative skills you honed in Freshman Composition I (a prerequisite) to present the image to your audience. Use these skills again to precisely point out to at least three important image details that strengthen your discussion. These are three smaller things that make your larger point (e.g., It is great, awful, amusing, distressing, etc.).

Here is something else that I want you to do: Analyze each of the details in the selected image in terms of its appeal to ethos, pathos, logos, or kyrgios, its ability to persuade an audience to do something, think something or react in a certain way. (Access video> https://youtu.be/aUpiy67_nt4?si=YLgwF39_POYDJfpw if these terms are new to you.)

View the short film by Abdou Cissé "Slap".

Apply the lessons from Chapter 3 of McWhorter's Reflections chapter in clear ways. See Table 3.11 "Guidelines for Writing a Response Paper" for guidance.

Start with a stem: "After viewing the image, I felt _____." Include a brief summary, and present a key reaction. Do not attempt to discuss all of your reactions. Instead choose one key idea, one question the selected image raises, or one issue it explores.

Quote the part of the text that applies to your observations, critiques, and/or opinions about the impact of the image if there is writing involved. Point out at least three important image details that strengthen your discussion. Analyze each detail in terms of one of its appeals, say to to ethos, pathos, logos, or kyrgios. Provide a response to the whole assignment Freshman Composition
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