Paraphrase: Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire

The Grand Tetons and the Grand Canyon, both stereotyped objects of idealized, romanticized desire in our cultural psyche, are in fact living environments more vital than any single human being.  The glamorization of these particular protrusions and cleavages, primarily by landscape photographers, into erogenous zones of our collective imagination has damaged both them and us.  They have been damaged by our cumulative attention.  We make pilgrimage to the objects we have admired on calendars and trample the habitats of other species or exterminate them for their inconvenience to our viewing pleasure.  In the process, our perceptions have been blunted and perverted, just like those of the readers of Playboy.

Knighton, Jose. “Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire.”  169.

Rhetorical Analysis Self Evlauation

1.  Underline your thesis statement.
2. Turn to the backside of your first page and answer the following questions there.   
3. In your own words, define "Rhetorical Analysis."
4. Describe the purpose to writing a rhetorical analysis.
5. What aspects of writing this paper were easy (give specific examples).
6. What aspects of writing this paper were challenging?  (give specific examples). 
7. In a paragraph, tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What was surprising?  What was not useful? What would you change?
8. What are the four parts of the Rhetorical Situation?
9. What are the three types of claims?
10. What are the three appeals?

When you have finished answering the questions, give your paper one last read through and fix any grammar or spelling errors.   Then turn it in.

Conservation is Good Work by Wendell Berry

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