group project 2
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GROUP TEXTBOOK-BASED RESEARCH PROJECT #2—Chapters 5-9
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to, in small groups, apply research-writing skills to the course text in order to test your knowledge of the assigned chapters.
Assignment: In ASSIGNED groups of four or five, you are to do the following:
Chapter 5—Resources of Communication
5) As a group, choose an advertisement and elaborate on how the ad uses verbal and non-verbal resources of communication. The analysis should include a discussion on what features are intensified or downplayed and how. Terms associated with language intensification such as association, repetition, and composition and terms associated with downplay such as components of double-speak—omission, confusion, jargon, euphemism—should be addressed.
REQUIREMENTS:
· Each group member’s section should be 1 pp, typed, double-spaced, MLA format.
· In other words, each member’s contribution needs to be included in the assignment. You are responsible for providing your peers with your portion.
100 POINTS POSSIBLE. This is a group assignment; therefore, the GROUP will be graded accordingly if a member does not turn in his or her part of the assignment and be deducted 25% for each missing portion.
