Sunday, January 24, 2010

Blog Assigntment (Jan. 25th)

Chapter 8: Ideological Criticism

1) What is an ideology?
Foss states that "An ideology is a pattern of beliefs that determines a group's interpretations of some aspect(s) of the world."
2) What are the primary components of an ideology?
Foss describes the primary components of an ideology as "...evaluative beliefs--beliefs about which there are possible alternative judgments."

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Blog Assigntment (Jan. 20th)

1) How does the textbook define "neo-Aristotelian criticism"?
"neo-Aristotelian criticism" is the first type of rhetorical criticism used in the communication field
2) What are the three basic steps in analyzing the artifact?
Sonja K. Foss explains the three basic steps in analyzing an artifact as:
"1.reconstructing the context in which the artifact occurred
2.application of the five canons to the artifact
3.assessing the impact of the artifact on the audience..."
3) What are the five canons of rhetoric?
Sonja K. Foss also shows us the five canons of rhetoric:
"1.invention, the location and creation of ideas and materials for the speech
2.organization, the structure or arrangement of the speech
3.style, the language of the speech
4.memory, mastery of the subject matter, which may include the actual memorizing of the speech
5.delivery, management of the voice and gestures in the presentation of the speech."

Welcome To My Blog!

Hey everyone! I'm not quite sure how many people will be reading this, but welcome to my blog! :) My name is Ellie and I'm a Junior at ODU. I'm majoring in Communication and still trying to figure out that tricky minor but I'm leaning towards Dance. I've never kept a blog before so I'm excited to see how this is going to go. I hope to use this blog to help me get better at Rhetorical Criticism. I took this class partially before with a different teacher but ended up dropping it because I didn't quite get it. Hopefully this semester will be different and I'll be a Rhetorical Criticism genious! haha...Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope you like my blog!