Ann N. Amicucci
Volume 4
Chapter Description
Many students are frequent users of social media, and it’s important to recognize the rich rhetorical activity that happens on apps like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. This chapter teaches students how to take rhetorical moves they make on social media and mimic these moves in academic writing, such as riffing off successful example texts, gearing content to specific audiences, choosing how to shape one’s ethos, and making stylistic choices that enhance the message of a piece of writing. By reading this essay, students will better understand the choices they make in composing text and images for social media and how those same choices can be applied to make their academic writing strong.
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