Analysis and Synthesis

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Write an analytical essay that draws on your description of the communication event in part one. Begin by formulating a set of questions to ask about the wider significance of this example of communication. Your paper needs to be more than just descriptive of what the communication example means. It should provide critical insights into, or an argument about, the importance or significance of this example to society or culture more broadly. It should also link this to analytic frameworks from the readings (for example, historical frameworks, frameworks for understanding how discourse functions in relation to institutional structures or interpersonal communication). Some good models from the course readings are Scott Kiesling’s discussion of the word “Dude” when it is used in specific contexts, and Dwight McBride’s discussion of the dress code, and hiring practices of Abercrombie and Fitch. In your paper, you must do the following:

•Show how you might relate this communication event to other social, political, economic, cultural, or aesthetic phenomena;

•Consider what connections you might be able to make between this instance/example of communication and other communication;

•Draw upon key concepts, theoretical or critical approaches/frameworks that we have been covering in the course to help answer the questions that you framed about the event. Be sure to cite the texts that you are drawing on, paraphrasing, and/or quoting directly (engage at least two course texts). Do this by putting the author’s name and the page number in parenthesis. If you cite an author who isn’t in the reader, do the same and also list the text in a bibliography.
•Describe some of the limits to your interpretation and/or challenges to understanding the issues you take up.