I’m trying to study for my Writing course and I need some help to understand this question.
Ask yourself the following questions as you reread your draft, and then mark “MM” where you think your argumentation could be improved by the use of a multi-modal source. Then work on finding the appropriate sources to include your next draft:
- Where can I improve my argumentation by using the persuasive force of a graph, image, video clip, social media image, or sound recording?
- What are the features of the significant social/political/cultural problem that multi-modal sources show better than the scholarly sources I’ve quoted? (This question was inspired by a discussion with Eric Peterson.)
- Which spots in my draft seem like really promising places for me to make an emotional appeal to my audience, and what kind of multi-modal image could I use in those spots?
- Which spots in my draft could use a chart or graph that shows a trajectory or a disparity my words and my scholarly sources’ words aren’t showing in such a forceful way?
- Where would be a good place for a series of multi-modal images to make an argument on their own, maybe by contrasting with each other, or maybe by showing a pattern of evidence of the problem I’m studying?
- As I look over the series of all of my multi-modal sources without reading the corresponding text of my draft, what argument are the multi-modal sources making on their own? (The previous question was inspired by a worksheet by Pragya Trivedi.) Is there a way I could improve the quality of that argument by using a wider variety of multi-modal sources?
The writing you did for me is attached
