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Essay 3 consisting of two parts (1) a creative text(s) in which you enact good citizenship online as you define it, (2) 3-4 full pages reflection in which you explain your ideas regarding good citizenship and rhetorically analyze your creative text(s).
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Essay 3: The Connected “Good Citizen” In the last assignment, we studied literacy practices related to a social group, perhaps tied to an issue of social justice or activism. For this assignment, I want you to engage in a literacy event. I’d like to see you show your voice as an active participator in civic conversation, in the spirit of the ancient Greek tradition of the “good citizen.” The Stanford Encyclopedia described that the aim of each citizen was “to be an asset to his friends, to his family, and, most important, to the polis.” So, for the Greeks, education was aimed at building better citizens who participated in development of the polis, which resulted in better citizens, and so forth in a recursive process. This tradition has persisted in writing instruction through the influence of rhetoric. In this assignment, we’re imagining a new milieu of writing technologies for civic engagement. For this assignment, you are encouraged to think about the “polis” in a broader way to include subcultures you are a part of. You might think of the university, your hometown, a student group, a Web community you are a part of, etc. as a “polis.” This could mean creating a meme related to a social issue you are concerned about, creating a video, designing a Twitter campaign with a hashtag, writing a letter to the editor or drawing a comic strip, a short graphic novelette, recording a podcast or composing some other text. Equally important, though, is your ability to analyze and reflect on your text, the motivation that spawned it, if applicable, how it relates to course readings, such as B and H or Buckingham or Douglass or Anzaldua or others. And, finally, you will have to situate that in the context of the “good citizen.” For this assignment:
media that could be (but doesn’t have to be) shared in some public arena. The other will be a short, written analysis of that text and reflection on it (3-4 full pages). (You are not required to actually post/share the first text with the world.)
interpretation of what that means) and be able to explain that in your reflection. While this is open to interpretation, the outcome shouldn’t engage in hate speech or other activity that is expressly warned against in the Ohio University Student Code of Conduct:
https://www.ohio.edu/communitystandards/upload/Ohio-University-Student- Code-of-Conduct-effective-081915.pdf
you could deliver it to the “real world,” who you expected to reach, and how you expected to reach them. You should draw on one or more of the course readings in some meaningful way to make sense of your project. You should establish your thoughts regarding what it means to be a good citizen participating in civic discourse. To get you started: What do you care about? Do you have a strong drive to save the environment? Do you want people of your generation to start participating in politics? Do you think the state government is failing our children with their misguided educational initiatives? Are you angry at the way veterans are treated after they return home? Are you proud of a woman or man from your neighborhood who has sacrificed much to help others? What are you passionate about? Do you volunteer at an animal shelter? Work for campus recreation? What do you have something to say about? Who do you want to say it to? Think about the kinds of media you have at your disposal and the sites in which that media is used…for example, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Reddit , are all sites in which particular kinds of media proliferate. Something as simple as the “bring our girls back” campaign or the ice bucket challenge are examples of arenas in which participants compose texts for each other and to raise awareness among outsiders and in order to maintain solidarity with other participants. Think about researching sites or apps that collect or encourage creativity. Cite any texts from the course that contributed to your ideas in MLA format.