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Multigenre Writing:

Publicity, Advocacy
Campaigns & Social
Movements
A.Vera Kirmizi
Ngoc Tien
Caroline Sikes
Yixuan Liu
Yue Shu

Social Movement

Purpose:
Calls for a change (ethical)
Persuade to take action or participate
Doesn't always target everyone

Conventions
Emotional response mode of persuasion
Calls for action, change opinions and contribute
Audience: understanding and open minded
Structure: introduction and persuade
Multimodal elements:
Visual, linguistic , audio, gestural and spatial (Anstey and Bull).

Tone: informative, emotional

Example: HeForShe

Political Movement

Purpose
Persuade actions to achieve a political goal
Politics: activities involve with governance of the country
Target a group of people

Conventions
Audience: interest in political issues or goals
To achieve an emotional response direct

country sovereignty, rights and justice

Typically already know some basic background information


Multimodal elements:
Visual, linguistic , audio, gestural and spatial (Anstey and Bull).

Ethos and Pathos


Tone: authoritative, emotional

Example: Colonel Tim Collins Speech

Activity

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