Arrangement- Ideally, the rhetorical situation influences the writer's decisions.

Cicero's 6 part division for discourse:

1. Exordium: Introduction & Insinuation
2. Narration: Statement of Issue
3. Partition: divide the issue into major parts
4. Confirmation: major supporting arguments (evidence, examples, and analysis)
5. Refutation: anticipating and responding to objections
6. Peroration: Conclusion

Reading

1. Would people analyze the same data in a different way?
2. People have other data that would challenge/complicate your analysis.
3. Our data, our analysis challenges other people's interpretations.
4. Qualifying a statement on assertion.

Your Rhetorical Situation

If some one else performed the same research that I did with the editor of the WVU Alumni magazine, they would probably find a completely different angle to work at in order to compose their ethnographic research.

ARCS pg 318

Activity 2

John McCain's concession speech when Obama was announced the next President contained examples of insinuations, narrative, partitions and perorations as most of his speeches do.

The audience may not have been hostile, but McCain supporters were definitely in difference of opinion of those who voted for Obama. McCain begins his speech with "I had the honor of calling senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected of the next president of the country we both love. In a contest and difficult as long as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance, but that he managed to do so by inspiring hopes of so many millions of Americans who once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence of an election of an American president, is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving." Here, he addresses the fact to his supporters that he has lost the election, but doesn't want them to lose hope in what is really at stake here, the best for our country. This also leads into the narrative, which is McCain is addressing them to inform that he has lost the campaign race.

His partition for an argument of definition by addressing the fact that losing to the first African American in this historical campaign should not be looked down upon by using the example of President T. Roosevelt inviting Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. "America today is a world away from the cruel, frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United Sates, let there be no reason now. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth." McCain knows that many of his followers were against having a black man in office and he is reiterating the fact that our country has come a long way from its ignorance it contained centuries ago, and that should not deny Obama for doing well in presidency.

To conclude, his peroration included, "It is natural tonight to feel some disappointment, but tomorrow we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought as hard as we could and though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours." Not only does he sum up the feelings his supporters feel, but he explains that the situation cannot be reversed puts the blame on himself.

Activity 3

I don't really see how Shapiro could make her speech any more direct if writing for a smaller publication. Her job entails her to write something for parents and if she writes for an alumni magazine, what good would that do?

Thesis: Since the artwork was designed by one person, there is a director in the creation process with several workers, which displays the communication skills that are necessary in composing the artist's work.