after you have read these three blogs, you’ll write a script for a play where you will place the 3 authors of your 3 texts in conversation with each other. You will also be a “character” in this play. You might think of this as an aspect of rhetorical listening – hearing how all of the texts are participating in the same larger conversation. You’ll decide what ideas you saw in multiple texts or what conclusions you can draw from reading these texts.
The Ideas (Minimum 450 words)
An introduction between you and the authors, and then a dialogue with the authors about their ideas, focused on challenging the authors and/or your own, personal values and beliefs about the issues within the readings.
The Rhetorical Choices (Minimum 450 words)
A dialogue with the authors about their choices. In order to do well, you must first read the three texts and break down the text into smaller rhetorical features.
Your Conclusions (Minimum 450 words)
A dialogue with a friend about the discussion you had with the authors, hopefully uncovering something new about the discussed ideas and rhetorical strategies (in other words, don’t simply repeat what happened in Act 1 and Act 2, but reveal something new through your conversation with a friend).
Audience: The audience for your play is other students at FIU who have not read these texts but who want to understand how these authors’ ideas/texts fit together.
Purpose: Your purpose is to entertain the audience while making connections between the texts and the ideas the authors are proposing (synthesizing).
Genre: The genre is a script. Scripts have particular features, such as the way that dialogue is written. Here are some real-world examples to help you understand what the text might look like.