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Assignment: Create three original, written responses to the prompt; explain your persona, purpose, and audience; justify and explain your rhetorical choices; and critique others' postings.

Primary Discussion Response

Select a trending topic connected to your field of study or professional field, research the topic online and with academic databases, and write an original tweet, an email, and Facebook post informing others what you have learned/discovered. You may use your topic that you researched in Unit 1.

Tweet: in 140 characters, express your thoughts on what you learned in your research; also, please include a hashtag.

Email: Compose a short email relating to your chosen topic. The email must include the following fields: a "to:" and "subject:" line and an appropriate "signature"; you should have an introductory greeting, set the context, provide the interesting information including at least one reference to a source, and a concluding statement; the email should not exceed 7 - 10 sentences total.

Facebook: in a posting to your Facebook followers, craft a summary of your discovery that also expresses your reaction to the information and possible ways your followers might need or use your discovery.

Purpose and Audience: for each entry, explain the "voice" you've adopted (your perspective), your intended audience, and your purpose behind the communication. Also, discuss how the different platforms affected your purpose, audience, and message.

Justification: In a brief, 3 - 5 sentence paragraph, explain some of your choices-vocabulary, tone, details and examples, type of research cited-that shape the effect you want to have.

Peer Responses

Respond to 2 classmates. In your responses to your classmates, remember to be constructive and polite when you continue the conversation. Use these questions to assist you with your responses:

1. What engaged you about your classmate's tweet, email, or Facebook posts? What in the writer's approach interests you?

2. What about the writer's style helped or hindered the messages' appeal to their chosen audience?

3. Which of the three was most effective and why?

4. What are your suggestions for the writer?