SPC 4680 Spring 2022 Essay #1: Web Page Assignment Due Date: 2/13 Post in Assignment on Canvas Min. words: 1000 (3 page min.) Syllabus: 1. Essay #1(15 points): DUE ON CANVAS 2/13 MIDNIGHT- NO LATE POSTING Your first essay is a Web critique. Find a Web Page that you consider interesting. Your principal aim is to “make sense” of the page, describing it to a possible interest party. Such sense making will be facilitated if you carefully analyze the key symbols in the page. Things like visual and text elements, how are they put together, where are they located in the page provide plenty of clues about the effectiveness or interest the page can create. It’s your job to explain it in detail. In addition, you need to print the page for the instructor’s benefit. 1000 words min. (3 pages min.) Additional Guidelines for Essay #1 This essay intends to familiarize you with a neo-Aristotelian format when analyzing a Website/a speech/movie/text/artifact. One extra suggestion: look for a site that might present issues that are not for commercial use, rather for changing of attitudes, beliefs, etc. One such example can be a site to adopt a pet. Please consider the following as part of the format: a. A brief description, in your own words, of the Website selected along with the justification of your choice. b. Provide a description of how the text elements and the visuals [ads, pictures, videos] are connected, if at all. (FORMAT/ARRANGEMENT) c. Consider the language and the visual images as language, and explain how is the STYLE of the Website: is the style appropriate, do they use correct language? Does it utilize slang and/or inside references, for people who already know the product/site/images, etc? d. Consider explaining how rhetorical is the Website in your view, is it effective? Is it appropriate? How much does it influence audiences, by the way it is presented as a Website? (PURPOSE- to Persuade/to instruct-or inform/ to entertain, which one is the most powerful purpose as presented in the site?) e. Who is the AUDIENCE? Here you need to look at the following: i. The audience that is already interested/influenced by the topic and/or the site itself. ii. Audience members who will NOT be influenced by the site, and why, in your opinion? iii. Who are the most possible Audience members that MIGHT be influenced by this site? In other words, who could be rhetorically persuaded/influenced on basis of the way the Website is presented to the public. f. Your overall opinion whether this is a rhetorically good or rhetorically poor site, in terms of its ability to influence people in their values/beliefs/interests. Good Luck! Mandatory: Reference page with the site you examine. APA or MLA citation style. This page does not count for the word count of the Essay 1. Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 3 Page Tags: communications mental health Rhetorics User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.