In this webinar, the presenters focus on strategies for finding rhetorical affordances. Affordances are elements of a text that can be used as models for teaching. Rhetorical affordances highlight the ways that authors construct their text in relation to an audience. This webinar will focus on how text such as Audre Lorde’s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” from the “Language, Gender, and Culture” module point to the rhetorical affordances that authors of color use to make their arguments. Additionally, the webinar will demonstrate how seeking rhetorical affordances in Joy Harjo’s “How to Write a Poem in a Time of War” from the “Poetry for the People” module can demonstrate to students the value of considering primary, secondary, and tertiary audiences.
