Blog Post - The Cove

Class - I hope everything went well in class today despite my absence. The Cove, as a piece of rhetoric, is a really amazing film. There are some nuances of the way that it achieves its argument that I find particular interesting for our study of writing. I think it is also highly controversial, which always provides some good incentive to sit down and write. Therefore, I want to leave this blog post open to your interpretation. Feel free to construct a 500 word post commenting on whatever you like, as long as it pertains to The Cove.ouEngage with the text argumentatively - do you agree, disagree? On what grounds? Did you find any of the claims of the film to be unfounded? Did certain points resonate particularly well? Also feel free to make connections to other media you have engaged with. If any of you have been to Sea World, you could even provide a narrative of your time there with The Cove in mind. Make the response your own. If you are having trouble brainstorming a topic, you can choose instead to write about this prompt: In the beginning of the course we spent a lengthy bit of time talking about academic writing as a genre. Documentary film is also a genre. What kind of affordances are made in the rhetorical conduct of the film due to its genre? By that I mean, what is it that they are capable of doing argumentatively that might be more difficult to pull off in an academic essay. In dealing with this prompt you might find it useful to return to the rhetorical concepts of ethos, pathos, and logos. This post will be due at 9:45 AM, Thursday, March 22nd.