Group Research Project

Prompt –

Choose an Issue, a Social Media Platform, and Texts. In this assignment, you’ll look specifically at social-issue advocacy pieces written to “go viral” via social media, and how language and links from those pieces show up in other social media. The purpose of the assignment is to further explore, demonstrate, and practice with the concepts of velocity, ecology, and intertextuality in rhetorical interaction. Trace the velocity of a piece: from its point of origin, what direction it goes, at what rates, and what it becomes.

From Writing about Writing, written by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs. Pg. 701 – 702