Friday, October 30, 2015

10.6 My Rhetorical Action Plan.

provide short but detailed answers to the three numbered items (and all the sub-bullets) in the “Developing a Rhetorical Action Plan” Box on Writing Public Lives pages 412-3.


  1. I am trying to persuade the native Hawaiian to write letters to the governor of Hawaii.
    1. They know about the newest emergency laws made to "protect" hawaiians and that there is a building permit that has been issued to begin construction.
    2. They value the mountain as sacred land and would like to stop development on it.
    3. I think appealing to pathos and letting them know how they can help will be persuasive enough to take action. I am basically showing the door to them that they may not have known existed.
    4. I think showing images of determined protesters will send a powerful message and tug at them to also become active in their own way.
    5. I am encouraging  my audience to take action in the manner of writing letters
  2. Call to take action by writing letters like this article 
    1. I chose this genre because it reaches my specific audience which are native Hawaiian seeking a way to take action with(out) protesting.
    2. The setting would be on an hawaiian activist website.
    3. I think ethos would be to empower individuals to have courage, pathos to instill passion and desire to make a difference, and logos to show them how to do it.
    4. I think showing images of determined protesters will send a powerful message and tug at them to also become active in their own way.
    5. The style I will use is formal.
  3. I would like my audience to write a letter to the governor of Hawaii after reading my argument.
    1. positive support: Readers share/comment to others to also take action and spread the argument to others. Negative support: Readers will dismiss or oppose the need to take action because they are for the construction of the telescope.
    2. One way to response to negative support would be to have sources that show the state of the situation and give statistics that make the claims stronger.
    3. I think if enough letters opposing the construction of the site are sent to the governor. The voices must be acknowledged.

1 comment:

  1. The letter alternative would be an ideal way of protesting without actually protesting. Hawaiian people are much more likely to take this suggestion. If you can convince the that a letter is not the protesting they think of your argument will be strong.

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