ENC 1102: Project 2 Guiding Questions

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In Project 1, students analyzed visual and rhetorical strategies, while demonstrating empathy when describing various stakeholder perspectives. In Project 2, students will now evaluate two key stakeholders on a given issue, and will use empathetic tone and language while finding common ground between their two perspectives.

Goal: Drawing on research conducted in Project 1, students will choose two stakeholders with seemingly incompatible goals regarding the same issue or topic.

Note: Feel free to use all the space on this assignment sheet to do whatever brainstorming technique you find most helpful. This might be outlining, mapping, or any other idea-generating / organizing method.

In preparing for Project 2, please answer the following questions:

1. In your Project 1 Early Draft, you began brainstorming about the multiple stakeholders connected to a particular issue or topic that interests you. Revisit your ideas to think about what various stakeholders are involved. Are there any other stakeholders that you can think of? List them here.

2. Consider the various stakeholders involved in your issue or topic. What are they trying to accomplish? What are their core beliefs? Choose four stakeholders and write their goals and core beliefs below. You might consider exploring each stakeholder’s slogan or mission statement as listed on a website, commercial, article, advertisement, etc.

3. How are the perspectives of the four stakeholders above different? How are they the same? (An example of a similarity might be if both organizations use the same rhetorical appeal to capture the attention of an audience.)

4. Do any of these stakeholders seem to at “at odds” with one another? Which ones? In what ways?

5. Choose two of the above stakeholders who are “at odds” with one another. (If none of your stakeholders thus far are “at odds” with one another, consider choosing two different stakeholders). What might need to happen for both of your chosen stakeholders to achieve their purpose(s) with regards to your issue or topic?

6. Propose at least two compromises that might satisfy each of these stakeholders with regards to your chosen issue or topic. What must these two sides each give up as they try and reach an agreement?

7. Choose one of the compromises you proposed in #6. What needs to be in place for your compromise to be accomplished? Explain those factors.