Reminder for 6/8: Take-home Reading Quiz #4

Due: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at beginning of class (late to class=0)
Worth: 4 points=4% of final course grade
Guidelines: three-paragraph analysis; MLA format and citation,;12 point, Times New Roman font

Prompt:

Use the following guiding principle to write your analysis of a specific gesture that you see in a culture. The gesture may come from the culture you are doing your final essay on, or not!

Guiding Principle: “Gesture appears as a potential substitute or supplement for the defects of our spoken and written languages” (226).

MLA Citation:

Yelle, Robert A. "The rhetoric of gesture in cross-cultural perspective." Gesture 6.2 (2006): 223- 240. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Apr. 2010

1. Pre-writing Strategy: [Respond to assumptions and elements of the guiding principle]

• What is one gesture that you think in your culture replaces or enhances spoken words?
• How does the gesture do so? In other words, what does the gesture replace?
• What is a possible “defect” in spoken/written language that makes it necessary to replace/enhance through gesture?

2. After the pre-write, type up a structured three-paragraph analysis integrating the given guiding principle. Use today’s in-class strategies AND Chapter 6 techniques (specifically, p. 203, which has a good chart, and p. 206-208)