Essay #3 Alternative Audience Composition (20%)

Goals of the assignment:

For this assignment, you will move from researching and analyzing your topic, as you did in the Research Essay, to creating a composition that uses a different genre to communicate to a targeted audience about that same topic. You will use your previous research to inform your creative strategy and help you make the rhetorical choices necessary to create an effective composition. This genre is up to you to decide upon, based on your analysis of the rhetorical situation and the way in which you respond to it.

In this assignment, you will strategically target a specific audience that is either a non-native English speaker, or one that does not use academic English as its primary form of communication. You will craft key messages to communicate to that audience–based on knowledge of your topic gained from developing the research essay.

Examples may include but are not limited to: videos, images (such as paintings, posters and cartoons), as well as stories, scripts, and poems.

You will also write a rationale to communicate the reasoning between genre and your strategies for choosing them, as well as the effect of your choices on your audience.

This assignment requires you to engage your critical thinking, rhetorical awareness, and reflection capabilities in order to most effectively communicate with your specified audience. Your strategy will determine the choices you make in communicating to your audience, how you present the research, and what you create to convey your message.

Please note: This composition will be the same for your other FIQWS section.

Format:

The composition will include:

1. A specific genre of communication, targeting an audience that is either a non-native English speaker, or one that does not use academic English as its primary form of communication
2. A rationale for your composition (500 words) that orients your reader to the purpose of your work and its significance to your audience, exploring how it goes the perpetuation of linguistic standards and systematic oppression
3. A presentation for that outlines the major elements of your research claim as well as the overview of your composition.

Evaluation Rubric, Have you:

1. Created a unique composition for your audience?
2. Written your rationale?
3. Prepared a presentation (for Prof. Ranghelli?)