Rhetoric Fall 2016 Sections 0140 and 0439 Student name:_________________________ Due Thursday, November 3        Deliverable 9: Podcast Evaluation Criteria Deliverables are evaluated on thoughtfulness, creativity, and brave thinking

Rhetoric Fall 2016

Sections 0140 and 0439

Student name:_________________________

Due Thursday, November 3     

Deliverable 9: Podcast

Evaluation Criteria

Deliverables are evaluated on thoughtfulness, creativity, and brave thinking. They are each worth three participation points. One point = done, below average. Two points = done, average. Three points = done, thoughtful, creative and/or brave thinking.

Style/Delivery

Deliverables must be handed in on the date they are assigned. They cannot be turned in retroactively or via email for credit. Feel free to print this sheet and handwrite or type your thoughts. You may also write your response on a piece of notebook paper. Please make sure your instructor knows who completed this assignment—put your name on it!

1. Choose and listen to one of the following podcasts:

• “The Alibi” Serial
  • https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi
• “Debatable” Radiolab
  • http://www.radiolab.org/story/debatable/

• “My Summer Self—Act One—Grapes of Wrath” This American Life
  • http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/594/my-summer-self
• “Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing” Planet Money
  • http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/16/494266135/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing

2. Circle the podcast title you listened to above.

3. As your textbook suggests, everything is an argument. If you had to identify a claim for the podcast you listened to, what would it be? In other words, what do you think the podcast is persuading you to think, act, and/or do?

4. If you had to select a tone (mood) to describe the podcast to which you listened, what tone would you choose? Why?

5. What aspects of the podcast might you try to integrate into your own podcast? Why? What will you try to avoid? Why?