FK Action Project for Art Of Rhetoric "Corruption, Theft, and Lies, Burke The Jerk Doesn't Care if You Loose Your House Or How You Get to Work"

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 Hello reader, this is my action project for Rhetoric unit#1 at GCE Lab school. The first unit of this course is called “Purpose”. The why. Why do we use rhetoric? To answer this question my class and I looked into rhetoric being used in the real world. The topic we chose to focus on was housing. We found ways of connecting something super important to rhetoric. We even scheduled a time to meet with an affordable housing developer to learn more about the nitty - gritty process. But now more into the nitty gritty of rhetoric itself. During this unit my classmates and I learned about methods of communication and how to apply the rhetorical situation. There's several parts but the main 3 are the speaker, purpose, and audience. We also learned about rhetorical appeals, those being ethos, logos and pathos. Ethos means a sense of authority (people in power, sources, etc). My appeal to ethos in my flier is somewhat artificial because I was gonna choose the alder of the ward I live in, but I do not live in Chicago. Some of my fellow classmates also do not live in Chicago so my teacher suggested we look into Alder. Burke (alder of Chicago's 14th ward), so in my flier I implied as though I lived in the 14th ward, giving me "artificial authority". Logos means a sense of reason and logic (facts, statistics, etc). My appeal to logos came from my statistics on CTA use in the 14th ward, and my statistics on gentrification in the 14th ward.  Pathos means a sense of emotion(anger, happiness, sadness, empathy, etc). My appeal to pathos came mostly from my tone. An often overlooked but very important part of the rhetorical situation. I added lots of large text and I added a QR code to an invitation to a discord server so that the community can come together. Next we learned about rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are methods of phasing a statement to intrigue your audience. Things such as smilies, metaphors, and chiasmi. I used 2 anaphoras which is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a beginning line to give it emphasis. I also used an allusion which is a rhetorical device that consists of referencing a topic to alert a certain audience that may be a part of the whole audience. This project sums up everything we learned in this class. Now that you have context(also part of the rhetorical situation). Check out my flier!



Citations:

 Staff. “Housing Equity Plan and New Ethics Rules for Aldermen Get City Council Nods.” The Windy City Word, 2021, https://windycityword.com/housing-equity-plan-and-new-ethics-rules-for-aldermen-get-city-council-nods/.

Bergo, Chuck Neubauer and Sandy, et al. “Millions in Tax Breaks for Ed Burke's Law Clients Fronted by Fellow Aldermen.” Better Government Association, 1 Oct. 2022, https://www.bettergov.org/news/millions-in-tax-breaks-for-ed-burke-s-law-clients-fronted-by-fellow-aldermen/.

“Community Data Snapshots.” CMAP, 2020, https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/data/community-snapshots.

UIC. “Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.” Gentrification Index | Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement | University of Illinois Chicago, UIC , https://voorheescenter.uic.edu/what-we-do/areas-of-research/gentrification-index/.


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