English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Dave,

I have attached a draft of my working document. I like the direction it is going. I'm still a novice with regard to critiquing visual tests, however, so any advice you offer will be greatly appreciated.

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Attached please find a rough draft of my exploration project. I have attempted to answer 10 questions, and have included some additional notes that have yet to find a home.

Here is a sample page. We added an element to the bottom of the page and wanted to make the blues darker. We also added a border to the colored text box to make space around the text.

There is a book that challenges, in some regards, Gladwell's concept of "Blink." Dr. Jerome Groopman argues that doctors that work from the gut generally make more mistakes. He qualifies this by arguing that it's when doctors become anchored to their gut reactions and diagnoses and refuse to reconsider that trouble insues.

What is very interesting for the rhetoric is Groopman's reason for writing the book. He states that he wants patients to know how doctors think so that they can help their doctor's think better. Such a conception of audience and audience interaction is a really interesting framework for understand and developing ethos. Older versions of ethos saw it as fairly stable and something developed for an audience. Some contemporary versions, however, see ethos as something a rhetor develops with the audience each time. Dr. Groopman seems to argue that such a progressive construction of the doctor's ethos can lead to better diagnosis and better care.

A note or two on the author:

1. Jenkins is eager to celebrate viewer control over content. I am as well, but not in all contexts and with all content. For example, fans eager for shows to extend their runs are often wrong. I had no democratic access to Seinfeld during its run. Larry David (who left the show after the seventh season) and Jerry Seinfeld exercised a large amount of control over the show. Seinfeld, seizing the moment, decided that the show had reached the end of its run and he wanted it to go out on top. Anymore Seinfeld now would risk disappointing. The creators had a vision and stuck to it despite the presence of a strong fan base that wanted more and network that was willing to pay.

Attached please find my information project.