Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Found Magazine analysis (In-Class Activity)

http://foundmagazine.com/

Find an artifact on Found Magazine's website and analyze the text you've chosen using terminology from Bitzer's "The Rhetorical Situation." What are the qualities of the text? What does it show you about the context that surrounds the text? What questions are you left asking?


8 comments:

  1. Suzann Slaunwhite & Gaby Elias

    Qualities: crazy, written on a napkin, doodles of broken hearts, has a lot of anger. The writing/doodle seems immature because of spelling and how messy it is.
    - The text shows a lot of emotions like anger and sadness. It proposes the questions of who the person was and was it a break up. Also makes you wonder how old they are. Lastly it makes you wonder if they are okay.

    http://foundmagazine.com/2012/10/

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  2. Doug Small Warren Tabor Olivia Caputo
    • Audience is a girl named Jamie
    • Exigence is either to win Jamie’s love or to show Jamie how much he loves her
    • Handwritten in pen
    • Messy
    • Scribbled
    • Looks like a rough draft

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  3. Mallory and Brittney
    Babysitting service—
    Audience: General public looking for a babysitter
    Rhetor: Martin
    Exigence: To stay healthy, strive to earn money (personal gain), need for babysitting in the area.
    Qualities: Hand written, on a note with lined paper. Very personal, put on neighbors doorsteps.

    http://foundmagazine.com/2006/07/

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  4. • Rhetor is a dreaded man
    • Exigence is that he’s looking for a woman to be his companion
    • The audience would be anyone that could help him find a woman
    • The underlining and capital letters act as the utterance for persuasion
    • Casual, demanding, desperate

    http://foundmagazine.com/2014/04/

    Danielle Moore & Candace Rasher

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  5. The qualities of the text is a letter, folded and handwritten by a young child. Words are spelled wrong and you can tell that the note took a while to write by the handwriting. It is a response to Helen from Macy because the beginning of the note is answering a previous question. The context is two little girls trying to plan a sleepover. The questions left after reading the note are when and where are Macy and Helen having the sleepover?

    http://foundmagazine.com/2014/02/formal-sleepover/

    Autumn and Ansley

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  6. Rhetor- annoyed neighbor/ tenant
    Exigence- neighbors weren’t partying normally and left a mess
    Audience- people who partied
    Very emotional, handwritten, and words are in in caps
    Rachel Marsh
    foundmagazine.com/2012/04/

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  7. Written on a crumpled piece of paper that was found on the floor one rainy weekend night. Laura planned out her date with Max and wrote this love note. Did this really happen?
    http://foundmagazine.com/2011/01/


    Bryce Shay
    Daja Mcfadden

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  8. Caitlin Kleefeld, Lindsay King
    -Rhetor: is whoever wrote it. Seems like it is one person because of the word usage (you).
    -Audience: whoever they are talking to.
    -exigence: past history to make the rhetor angry.
    -discourse: very direct, informal, sloppy.
    Utterance: Threat
    http://foundmagazine.com/2003/02/
    http://foundmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/benefits.jpg

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