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Making Sense of Messages: A Critical Apprenticeship in Rhetorical Criticism
ISBN-10: 0205564518
ISBN-13: 9780205564514
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 368 pp
Published: 10/21/2004
Status: Instock
Using a developmental approach to the process of criticism, Making Sense of Messages serves as an introduction to rhetorical criticism for communication majors. The text employs models of criticism to offer pointed and reflective commentary on the thinking process used to apply theory to a message. This developmental/apprenticeship approach helps students understand the thinking process behind critical analysis and aids in critical writing.
- Criticism Models help students understand the critical thought process with side-by-side comparisons of messages and their critiques.
- Model Student Essays coach students through the process of critical writing with suggestions, reminders, and corrections
- A Sequencing tool allows students to monitor their own thinking while elaborating on four types of critical thinking necessary to complete analysis.
I. Introduction
1. What Are Rhetorical Messages?
Characteristics of Rhetoric
Definition of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Terminology
Why Study Rhetorical Messages?
2. Criticism: What Critics Do with Rhetorical Messages
Reaction versus Critique
Characteristics of Critics
A Critical Stance: In the Balcony
How This Book Can Help
Message Analysis Matters!
II. Process to Product
3. Four Kinds of Critical Thinking
Creative and Critical Thinking
The Process of Critical Analysis of Messages
Notes
4. The Process of Description
Approaches to Describing a Text
Recording Your Thinking
Approaches to Describing Context
Conducting Relevant Research
Text-Context Interaction
Applications of Text-Context Interactions
Notes
5. The Process of Analysis
Naming the Parts of the Message
Looking for Rhetorical Patterns
Sample Analysis
Deriving Questions from the Analysis
Notes
6. The Process of Interpretation
Characteristics of Interpretation
How Does a Critic Develop an Interpretation?
7. The Process of Evaluation
Types of Judgments
Selecting a Type of Judgment
Sample Evaluation
8. Writing Your Ideas
Effectively Arguing Your Claims about Messages
Documenting Your Sources
Notes
III. Analytical Tools
Classical Approaches
9. Classical Approaches: Ancient Rhetoric
Some Classical Rhetorical Concepts
The Classical Model Applied
Notes
Suggested Readings
10. Classical Approaches: New Rhetoric
Toulmin and Everyday Argument
Perelman and the New Rhetoric
The New Rhetoric Applied
Notes
Suggested Readings
Dramatistic Approaches
11. The Narrative Paradigm
Some Vocabulary of the Narrative Paradigm
Narrative Paradigm Applied
Two Concepts--Four Concerns
Narrative Applied to WWF Smackdown!
Suggested Readings
12. Fantasy Theme Analysis
Fantasy Theme Analysis Contrasted with Narrative
Some Basic Concepts of Fantasy Theme Analysis
The Process of Fantasy Theme Analysis
Fantasy Theme Applied: Gettysburg Address
The Fantasy Themes of WWF Smackdown!
Notes
Suggested Readings
13. Burkeian Analysis
The Negative and Human Speech
The Pentad
Two Examples of the Pentad Applied
Using Pentadic Ratios
Discovering Motives
Burkeian Concepts Applied to WWF Smackdown!
Notes
Suggested Readings
Sociopolitical Approaches
14. Ideological Approaches
Critical Theory
Hegemony and Marginalization
Legitimation
Naturalization
Ideological Concepts Applied to Beauty and the Beast and Shrek
Notes
Suggested Readings
15. Feminist Approaches
Liberal Feminism
Cultural Feminism
Postmodern Feminism
Feminist Concepts Applied to Beauty and the Beast and Shrek
Notes
Suggested Readings
16. Postmodern Approaches
Deconstruction
Ideographs
Discursive Formations
Using the Postmodern Approaches
Postmodern Concepts Applied to "America"
Notes
Suggested Readings
Visual Approaches
17. Visual Communication
Visual Messages and Argument
The Nature of Visual Messages
Semantics and Visual Communication
Functions of Visuals in Persuasion
An Application
Expanding the Analysis
Notes
Suggested Readings
Appendices
1. Sample Analysis of "She's Leaving Home"
2. Sample Student Paper: Barbara Jordan's Keynote Address at the 1992 Democratic National Convention: A Neutral Approach to a Partisan Task
3. Sample Student Paper: A Response to the Death of a Princess: The Form and Function of a Eulogy
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