Day 14: Field Trip!

So, I'd like to keep pushing your concepts of what's rhetorical.  A tough question to answer is what isn't rhetorical.  When dogs bark, are they communicating?  So, we've got magazines and websites and essays and books and videos and conversations and and and...


But today, I'd like to show you one other kind of rhetoric, sculpture.


Art is communicative, so is architecture.  Heck, a path in the woods is rhetorical in that it persuades you to go a specific way.  So, there are all sorts of very immersive forms of rhetoric that craft experiences for us, and that is really interesting.


What does this statue communicate?





Or how does the long dark wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC designed by Maya Lin use pathos, and convey a certain ethos?





So, today, I'd like for us to go on a field trip together!  Find a rhetorical space (on your own).


Normally, during the semester I take my students to the structure on the cover of the DK Handbook...  I won't give away its secret, but you should check it out sometime.  It's a silo on campus.





So, go... explore.


Grammar Review:


It's summer, so many of you have lied out in the sun...


http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/lay-versus-lie.aspx


Your Daily Assignment:


Blog Post:  Today, go take a walk somewhere.  Or a drive.  Find a sculpture or some other kind of rhetoric that we haven’t discussed yet.  Consider how that new form is conveying its message, its argument.  Take a picture of it, and post it to your blog along with a few sentences of your thoughts about this different form of rhetoric.