Rhetorical Overview
1. What is the author's exigence? Why does the author feel the article/argument needs to be made?
Wysocki is informing the reader on how to view visual arts and comparing different writer's ideas on how to view visual arts.
2a. What discourse community is the author speaking toward for the article? WHY do you think that? Provide textual evidence (e.g., specific language, tone, publication venue, etc.,).
I think her audience consists of other educators/ scholars/ teachers because she uses "we" a lot in her article.
3. What is the author's thesis/argument/niche for the piece? If possible, quote specifically from the text?
"My inability to come to a satisfactoring accounting leads me to consider how notions of beauty, developed in the late eightieth century, have been used in attempts to hold together two different orders of being and--by our time--have failed."
Summary
1. Write a few sentences that summarizes this article in your own words; make sure to cover the main arguments AND conclusions.
In her article, "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty," Wysocki shows readers how to change the way they view, interpret, and understand visual arts. She uses several examples to prove her point, like one she found in the New York Times, and how the ad gets attempts to get the message across to readers. Eventually, she concludes that all visual arts can be viewed in a rhetorical way, meaning a series of choices.
2. Take the summary you just wrote and condense it into something “tweetable,” by which I mean a summary that is NO longer than 140 characters. Consider using the same conventions you would if tweeting, meaning abbreviations and informality in language.
Viewing visual arts is a rhetorical process, made up of choices and consequence.
3. What hashtags (#) would you use for this article? Stated otherwise, what key terms would you.
#visualarts #rhetoricalway #understanding
Burkean Parlor/Intertextuality
1. In what ways does this author and/or the ideas in this article connect with, (dis)agree with, speak to or against –I think you get the gist– previous authors and their ideas that we have encountered in this class?
This article reminds me of Bernhardt's article because both discuss visual art and text. Also, both articles are aimed at teachers and how they can improve the way they teach their students. Also, this, in a way, reminds me of "Ways of Seeing" because they both use actual examples of women ads and how they are perceived by the audience.
Personal Reflection
1. How can you apply the information in this article to your own writing process? First, consider the main ideas that the author addresses, then consider other elements, such as organization, style, etc.
This article can help everyone in the class with our upcoming project. She is very specific in with her ideas, which gives the audience to a lot of detail about what she is trying to say. Although, it is going to be helpful, at times it did not keep my attention. I'm not saying it was extremely boring, just that at times I dozed off with reading.
2. What is confusing about the article?
I thought that the way she incorporated other's ideas in the article (randomly placing them it seemed like) made it difficult to follow and get a true understanding. Also, it was very long.
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