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After working with your reading groups and participating in class-discussions, you should have a sense of strategies people/groups use to convey a message. Strategies can include: style, form, tone, word choice. And perhaps, more complicatedly, strategies can also include: using certain frames, ways of seeing the world, and engaging with a specific public. You will select an artifact from any social movement you choose and perform a 2 to 3 page rhetorical analysis on it. This artifact can be a speech, advertisement, summary, letter, account, testimony, short story, poem. In order to receive full credit you will need to answer the following: What is the purpose of the artifact in general (What message is it trying to convey and to whom) (1pt) What is the purpose of the artifact in a larger social movement (1.5 pt) How does the artifact communicate its message (identify at least three strategies and use examples from your artifact as evidence) (2.5 pts) How does this artifact fit into larger conversations about a specific issue/topic? (2.5 pts) You will also have to: Use a citation strategy of your choosing (can be APA, MLA, or it can be a blurb in the beginning acknowledging who/what you credit your analysis to) (1 pt) Organize your analysis into paragraphs with clear transitions. (1.5 pt)