COMS 444 –Case Study #1: Rhetorically Imagining the Political Purpose We have come to the end of our first section, and we now have the opportunity to reflect on our course material and connect it to contemporary examples of political rhetoric. For our first case study, we are how political rhetoric works to negotiate civics, values, knowledge, and our sense of what needs to change or stay the same in politics. Prompt We will be using Representative Ted Yoho’s comments about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his apology on the floor of the House of Representatives, and her response as our first case study. Read the documents and watch the two videos posted on Canvas in Announcements/Artifacts for Case Study # 1. Then, answer the questions below. There is no minimum length, just make sure to provide a thorough answer. When you provide an example, it has to be unique, so don’t merely reuse an example from the Anderson reading. 1. What is the rhetorical context for this controversy? Identify at least two examples relevant rhetorical context. What are some things happening at the time or in the videos that help you determine the rhetorical context? Your examples can be aspects of the context generally, or one of the elements of Bitzer’s rhetorical situation — exigence, constraint, and/or audience. 2. How is language being used to shape the audience’s view of events? Identify at least one specific example of language from each video. How is language being used to negotiate values, establish a view of the situation, and/or recommend a course of action? 3. How do affective economics play a role in this case study? Identify at least one example of affective economics. How do we see affect used in this controversy? Which concepts, ideas, activities, people, or places are aligned together? 4. How does this controversy negotiate what is appropriate civic practice? Identify at least one example. There are a couple of ways to answer this question. You can identify which ‘American’ values as expressed in the founding documents assigned on Week 2 are highlighted or used in these video clip or you can consider what counts as appropriate ‘civic’ rhetoric COMS 444 –Case Study #1: Rhetorically Imagining the Political from the Jordan and Anderson readings from Week 3. Just make sure to use an example not discussed in the Anderson reading. 5. Evaluate the quality: Choose one of the videos, and based on your answers to questions 1-4, make an initial evaluation of the quality of their rhetoric. Was this an effective response to the rhetorical context? Why or why not? How to Get the Most Out of This Assignment: 1. Be specific: Remember, the point of the assignment isn’t just to watch the videos. Rather, you should look for what specific, unique observations you can make using course readings. What might Burke, Nichols, Weaver, Parrish, Bitzer, Black, Ahmed, Jordan or Anderson say about these texts? Provide specific examples from the case study articles and videos, and from the reading. 2. Be engaged in class: Upload your answers to the case study to Canvas by 11:55 pm on February 25th. 3. Consider grading criteria: You will be evaluated on whether you answer each question completely, the specificity of your examples from the videos, the specificity of your reference to course materials, and the correctness of your application to course material. You will receive 20 points for responding to each question. Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: Audience Perception Alexandria Cortez videos Representative Tod Yoho Use of language abrasive confrontation 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.