Production Report 8A

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS:

1. I decided to use the form of a standard college essay because I am most used to doing rhetoric analyses in this format. Being that this a rhetorical analysis of an entire profession, I had to make some tweaks in my introduction to make sure it was less specific than the standard rhetorical analysis introductory paragraph.

2. An epiphany reached at this point in the process was that I could analyze a different piece of literature that I am familiar with for each rhetorical strategy. This allowed me to cover more genres and examples in my essay.

OUTLINE EQUIVLENT:

• Introduction
• Grabber could stress the importance of the communication between creative writers to society.
• Grabber could trace the passing of inspirations through a chain of authors: Horatio Alger novels inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald inspired Hunter S. Thompson, etc.
• Thesis: There are many tendencies in the vital communication between creative writers

RAW CONTENT:

In 1856, the New England-born, Harvard graduate, Horatio Alger Jr., published his first in a series of books that detailed successful pursuits of the American dream by American teenagers that validated the American dream for many. Inspired by the genre known as the “Horatio Alger myth”, a Jazz-era, social-climber named F. Scott Fitzgerald came to publish various works (i.e. The Great Gatsby) to question the reputable belief in upwards social mobility. Then on November 11, 1971, after having copied various works of Fitzgerald, Hunter S. Thompson would write his magnum opus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to document the American dream’s demise. The occupation of creative writing—whether it be nonfiction, fiction, or combinant of the two—has always relied on the artful communication between writers and their readers, writers and their peers, and, as is the case the aforementioned “passing of the torch”, writers and their successors. This essential back and forth between creative writers and their various audiences relies on rhetorical strategies to communicate ideas to general audiences.