Paper 1 – students will analyze a persuasive text to identify how it functions in its particular context, using Aristotle’s artistic proofs as a mode of analysis while being attentive to the text’s personal, professional, social, and ethical implications.

Paper 1 – To become critical producers and consumers of persuasion and to recognize how it affects our everyday lives and communities, students will analyze a persuasive text to identify how it functions in its particular context, using Aristotle’s artistic proofs as a mode of analysis while being attentive to the text’s personal, professional, social, and ethical implications. The student may select a speech or an artifact from a specific social movement, corporate, or political campaign. The student will study the context in which the persuasive message was delivered and the verbal and nonverbal dimensions of the message to determine the persuasive effort’s relative success. Remembering that the “public good” lies with the quality of its champions, students will evaluate the ethical implications of this persuasive effort and whether it could positively or negatively influence individuals, communities, and institutions. Papers should be four pages long, and students will incorporate two scholarly sources into the piece. This paper will be graded according to how well it attends to the directions of the assignment listed above, the attached rubric, as well as the following: