Part One: Planning Work. Respond to the prompts for planning Project 4.
Good rhetors understand where their audience is coming from, and speak to the experience of their audience. Many times, we write to persuade an audience to adopt our point of view, but sometimes we simply want our point of view to be viewed as an acceptable one to hold.
You've thought a lot about your problem and your proposed solution. It's time to focus on communicating and deliberating with your audience.
Prompts for Planning:
- To help your peer give feedback, craft a paragraph that discusses your problem, solution, and audience. Summarize your paper.
- What are two reasons why your audience might resist your plan? Discuss these reasons at length--provide context for these reasons.
- What competing plans--different solutions to the same problem--might your audience favor over yours?
- What common ground do you see between you and your audience? What can you definitely agree on? What can you build on as you persuade the audience to move toward your point of view?
- Craft a paragraph that works off of these prompts:
- Starting with "I know that..." write three sentences that show you understand your audience's point of view.
- Write a sentence that shows that you respect that point of view.
- Write a sentence that proposes some common ground or compromise.
- Craft 2-3 sentences that helps the audience see their values in your plan. Persuade your audience to move a little closer to your point of view.