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Content, Function, Rhetorical (In Action)

The "text"

As you listen, fill out the "function" column by listenting for changes in the song

Background for establishing Rhetorical Situation

As you listen, fill out the third column

"Rhetorical Situation"

This is what Seth's concerned with; a "rhetorical situation" involves the specific context in which a text arose, which then involves things like:

• The author's purpose for writing
• The author's intended impact on audience
• Who the writing is intended to influence

The Prompt

Main task: APPLY Lakoff and Johnson’s metaphor analysis to Haas and Flower’s examples of readers who: use content strategies only (KARA), use content and function strategies (BOB), and use content, function, and rhetorical strategies (SETH)

DESCRIBE/ANALYZE TYPES OF READERS

• How does KARA/BOB/SETH conceptualize (think about) reading? their relationship to the writer?
• What do they think is their “job” in reading the text? What are they trying
• to “get” out of it?

APPLY METAPHORS TO THEM

• What is KARA’s/BOB’s/SETH’s metaphor for reading?
• How does this connect to their reading "type", and how they are described in H&F?

SUPPORT WITH EVIDENCE

• Behavioral/Linguistic evidence (the READING STRATEGIES they
• use and the LANGUAGE they use during the talk aloud/read
• Descriptions of how they conceptualize reading

ANALYZE & CONCLUDE (IMPLICATIONS: SO WHAT?)

• Provide other analysis, e.g. Highlight/hide
• What does your analysis say about H&F's reading strategies? About reading successfully?

"Moves" to Make

SUMMARIZING

• Summarizing Haas & Flower's descriptions
• Summarizing L&J's analytical tools as you apply them, with a focus on WHY you're applying them

MAKING CLAIMS

• Claiming that a particular metaphor fits a particular "type" of reader

PROVIDING & ANALYZING EVIDENCE

• Introducing peices of evidence from the text in order to support the metaphor you introduce
• Analyzing that evidence; determining what it implies about the proposed metaphor

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS (SO WHAT?)

• Reflecting on the analysis undertaken throughout the paper
• Commenting on what this analysis means to readers, and why we should care

CONNECTING H&F AND L&J

• Making it clear what aspects of L&J you are applying to H&F's readers and WHY

ANALYSIS

• Applying analytical tools
• Discussing what reading behaviors imply about the reader being analyzed

Templates: Examples

In a group of 3, create a template for the category you are assigned & post in to the discussion board on Bb

SUMMARIZING

In “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning,” Haas and Flower emphasize that ________________.

MAKING CLAIMS

Based on the evidence described above, _________________ is a metaphor that best fits Kara.

PROVIDING & ANALYZING EVIDENCE

_______________ shows that ______________.

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS (SO WHAT?)

My metaphorical analysis of these three types of readers indicates that ____________________.

CONNECTING H&F AND L&J

In applying Layoff and Johnson’s analytical tool ___________ to what Haas and Flower describe as a “function reader,” we can more clearly see _____________________.

ANALYSIS

If Kara only reads linearly, this implies _________________.