Thursday, April 21, 2016

Prompt for 4/23 - Manifesto

So far this semester, I've urged you to express yourselves carefully, to an audience which may be somewhat skeptical of your position.

This week's blog post will involve a different kind of rhetoric: that which is addressed to an audience which agrees with you whole-heartedly. The best way to do this? Write a manifesto!

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/marinetti.html

There's the Futurist manifesto -- I encourage you to wander around and find one to use as your model (there were about 10,000 written after the second world war), and to write your manifesto from there. It does not necessarily have to do with your project, but I imagine it might be easier for some of you to write one somewhat related to your own projects.

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