My Rhetorical Action Plan

In this post, I will make future plans for my next project. To do this, I will explor who my audience is, what genre I will write in, and what positive and negative reactions I will receive. 

Bottai, Sean. Developing a Rhetorical Action Plan.

Audience: 

I am going to try to persuade the low- wage workers who are wanting the minimum wage raised.

• Knowledge:

            The audience knows that they are getting paid an amount that they cannot live off of and therefore need more money somehow. They are clearly in favor of getting paid more, but probably don't know as much about the other effects it will have. 

• Values: 

             I know that a lot of low-wage workers are impoverish, young, just starting to work, or under educated. Not all, but a lot. My guess is that a lot of them don't fully know a lot of economics. 

• Standards of Argument:

             My guess is that appeal to emotion would be the best way to persuade this kind of audience. 

• Visual Elements:

            I think simple graphs that are easy to understand would be helpful for the audience to get a visuals. 

• Purpose:

             This purpose is to challenge to widely spread idea of raising the minimum wage, help them understand the consequences, and take action against it. 

Bottai, Sean. Developing a Rhetorical Action Plan.

Genre:

Persuasive Essay: 

• This genre is designed more towards the persuasive side of the argument. Something like this would be posted on the Washington Post or New York Times. The pathos would be very important here. Because the audience is generally uneducated, pictures would be an important part of appealing to the emotion. This would help the paper be slightly less formal. The writing should professional to gain credibility, but conversational enough that anyone could understand it. 
• Example #1
• Example #2 

Blog Post: 

• This genre is can be for any direction. What is helpful about a blog post is that it is easier for people to scan and understand. This is good for the readers that need something simple in order to understand. A blog post can be broken up into sections of rhetorical strategies. It would be easier to insert pictures into a blog post rather than an essay.
• Example #1
• Example #2