Analyzing physical spaces as a means of understanding rhetoric

The following collaborative project is designed to encourage students to investigate how rhetoric functions in everyday locations. Specifically, this assignment prompts students to document, analyze, and present the physical design and makeup of "privately owned public spaces" (POPS), a un...

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Main Author: Roger Chao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Prompt Journal 2020-01-01
Series:Prompt
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Online Access:https://thepromptjournal.com/index.php/prompt/article/view/54
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Summary:The following collaborative project is designed to encourage students to investigate how rhetoric functions in everyday locations. Specifically, this assignment prompts students to document, analyze, and present the physical design and makeup of "privately owned public spaces" (POPS), a unique categorization of community spaces that is promoted as simultaneously private and public. The benefits of completing this assignment are multifaceted: students are given the opportunity to experience learning beyond the confines of the classroom, and students are able to practice rhetorical analysis on physical locations, thereby learning how rhetoric functions beyond written or verbal discourse and attuning them to the social contexts of public spaces.
ISSN:2476-0943
2476-0943