Overview
- Familiarize yourself with Canva https://www.canva.com/Links to an external site. Be sure to save your projects so you can download the pdf for submission.
- You should know what resources your nonprofit offers. Now think about 1) what symbols, narratives, visual rhetoric, terministic screens, metaphors, or dramatism can you use to identify with the community who could use the resources from your nonprofit and persuade them to utilize this free service. In addition to images or a sign that is a symbolic representation of something, you MUST be thinking about textual (words) symbols that you can use (symbolic action) to convince someone to go out and use the resources that your nonprofit has to offer. What can you say that will make your audience identify with your resource guide and then take action? Be thinking about the following:
- What can you say that will make your audience identify with your resource guide and then take action?
- Are you telling a particular type of narrative or using a particular metaphor?
- Are you using dramatism? If so, what elements? Did you focus on a particular terministic screen? Did you use a particular ratio?
3. With 2 rhetorical theories in mind, create the infographic to visually display the resources the nonprofit offers. You should be thinking about this resource guide being used on social media and/or as a printed flier we can hang up around campus. The main objective of this assignment is for you to encourage the audience to utilize the services of your nonprofit. Imagine that nonprofit handing out your infographic as a flier to encourage community members to come to them for the services they offer (e.g., housing, food, etc.). This assignment is not about convincing people to volunteer or donate money to your nonprofit.
4. Finally, in less than one page double-spaced, you will write a mini-essay where you will define each rhetorical theory you used to create the resource guide and demonstrate your knowledge and application of each with an APA in-text citation from course readings.
5. You MUST use a minimum of 4 APA in-text citations from the academic course readings in the mini-essay. Include a reference page. No sources are needed in the infographic, remember this could be used for distribution to the public.
6. In your submission you must include: 1) Resource Guide Infographic 2) Mini-essay with an APA reference page. You can have both of these items in one file if you wish.
7. If you fail to use rhetorical theories from Unit 2 and/or the required readings from this unit as your sources then there will be an automatic 15% deduction from your overall grade for this assignment.