In 2009 the
State of Florida initiated the Florida Technology Plan. The attention to detail
and planning was created by experts and foreshadows a positive future.
Unfortunately the Plan lacks realistic funding and enforcement. Paolo Coelho
notes that it is human nature to give up on our dreams when we are closest to
reaching them. The fictitious purpose of this post was to reach out to
lobbyists and policy makers at a less formal level. The petition would be
brought before the court while this message was simultaneously sent out to
everyone at the capitol.
The cause
stasis led the argument through popular entities that had worked with research
in the field of electronic media literacy. The exigence of the necessity to fix
this educational flaw is parallel to that of the Spice Girls making a movie at
the peak of their careers. Just three years ago Florida invested time and a
bountiful amount of money into the “Florida Technology Plant”. I strongly
believe that the plan could revolutionize the way students learn if it were
properly enforced.
The
audience needed to be convinced that it was worth investing into the program. This
led me to Grant-Davie who revisited the original definitions of rhetoric’s
constituents and aimed to further explain the scheme for analyzing rhetorical
situations. A rhetorical situation is a situation where a speaker or writer
sees a need to change reality and sees that the change may be effected through
rhetorical discourse (Grant-Davie 264-279). The only way to get the government
to invest in a public program is through a legal petition.
“We have
found the stases not only useful as an invention tactic as a principle of
arrangement and a probe for analysis of audience and context” (Fahnestock 428).
The supporting points were aimed to overcome possible negative assumptions to
the petition. In essence, I thought of the possible opposing arguments and
combated them with contradicting facts. The proper organization of cause-effect
arguments leaves its receivers thinking it’d be silly to not agree with the
statement. The cause stases allowed me to do this, taking advantage of the
minds natural logic.
I found
that truths communicated through a stylistic pattern that bodied logical was more
likely to appeal to readers of any audience. Grant-Davie argues that the more
universal the appeal the grander the opportunity for debate to be conducted. For
example: Teachers are currently facing the obstacle of engaging their students.
Hope Molina-Porter, a High School English teacher, expressed her courage in
facing the challenge of engaging her students while acknowledging her worry
that technology was causing a deeper shift in the way that students learned.
The problem is a lack of attention in classroom environments. The teachers’
quote uses pathos to attract readers. Educators are respected individuals in a
community. Ms. Molina-Porter’s frustration and relentless courage can help
policy makers find the value in this issue. Once they reach the value stases
they are one step away from solving the issue.
Constraints
are persons, events, objects, and relations which are parts of the situation
because they have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify
the exigence. The current economic state of our country is a significant
constraint in this rhetorical situation. Considering the “Florida Technology
Plan” was via state program hence there are already interested entities inside
the capital. Reaching out to the original creators of the Plan can help
overcome the economic constraint this situation presents.
The proper
organization of cause-effect arguments leaves its receivers thinking it’d be
stupid to not agree with the statement. This document would have been matched
with formal documents that would be presented in the court setting.
Fahnestock,
Jeanne. "The Stases in Scientific and Literary Argument." Written
Communication. (1988): n. page. Print.
Grant-Davie,
Keith. "Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents." Rhetoric
Review. 15.2 (1997): 264-279. Print.
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