Written Task Proposal Form

Written Task Proposal Form

Pt 2—Mass Communication

My Name: Type your name here

Directions: Part A. Please answer the question to each question in the right-hand column. I have provided you with one example of a response to these questions in the right-hand column using the student example of the police report on The Lord of the Flies from Lang & Lit—Part 4. Just delete this example text and write your own response in its place.

Questions to Answer: / My Response (overwrite the following example responses from Lord of the Flies with your own responses from Streetcar)
1) What topic the Lang & Lit curriculum are you going to focus on in your WT? / Persuasion (The Media) and rhetoric
What real world text type did you choose to emulate for your WT? / TV show interview (a TV show interview script that works as a commercial) of a Diet Product
1. Why did you choose this particular text type. 2. Why is this text type the best choice for your WT? / 1. An interview is a formal form of writing, and in a commercial-purpose TV show. I can use both things from the rhetoric unit and the Media unit.
2. It covers a big part of all of our units. In order to advertise, the interview needs to include rhetoric, and since it is a TV show interview, considerations in the unit of media is also included.
How is your topic linked to this part of the curriculum (see the Learning Outcomes sheet on Moodle) / My topic deals largely with the techniques used in an advertisement (specifically, an commercial)
What are the key stylistic features of the text type that you intend to emulate?
List these in bullet point form / Interview
·  Strong bias
·  Rhetorical devices
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Who is the speaker and intended audience of your WT? / ·  Speaker: Seller of the Diet product and the host of the TV show.
·  Intended audience: Girls who want to be slim fast. Mostly teenage girls.
What is the intended purpose of your WT? / To advertise a Diet product to girls, to show the strengths of this particular product.
What is the context of your WT text type? You need to consider the social, cultural and historical setting of your fictional WT response. / This TV show airs on Saturday nights at 6 pm to 7 pm in North America
1) What are the stylistic features of this text type that you want to emulate in your own WT? / ·  Question and Answer
·  A brief background information on the top introducing the product.
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Primary or Secondary Sources I used or referred to in my Written Task / A Diet Product advertisement (Vivtra)

Webster Lang & Lit AISG