This is an extensive rhetorical analysis project. You’re looking for patterns across multiple primary texts—at least four used substantially. Identify a pattern of rhetoric you see a problem with across all these sources. Then recommend a different way of talking about that subject that is somehow better, more ethical, more accurate, etc. You’ll use both primary texts and secondary texts to accomplish this.
Think of your work this way: 1. Here’s a story we tell. 2. Here’s a problem with that story. 3. Here’s a better (more accurate, more ethical, etc.) story we should tell instead. Your replacement story cannot be fiction, but something rooted in evidence and in some clear ethical philosophy you provide.
Spend at least 1,200 words defining and analyzing the conversation you’ve assembled (the one with the problem). As before, focus on a single pattern of rhetoric and underlying philosophy throughout your essay. Once we’ve found it, we can discuss its consequences. This is an opportunity to point out problematic issues in how we’re currently talking about your subject.
ONLY AFTER you’ve done this, you’ll spend another 800 words (or more) writing a final section in which you can discuss what this situation looks like from your own current positions (situated ethos) and advise a way to address the problematic rhetoric by offering a different way of talking about the subject.
USE 4-6 PRIMARY SOURCES: Primary sources are the texts you analyze. These will be the sources you use to show us an existing story that is being told, or an alternative to it. Primary sources can also be academic studies and original data collected by professional researchers — again, things you analyze. I expect these to be the major sources you draw from in identifying the “problem” with how we talk about something. You can’t demonstrate a problem without showing the evidence of it in action.
USE 3-5 SECONDARY SOURCES: These are other people’s analyses and arguments that you use to help you develop your own analysis further. These are usually found in academic texts and scholarly journals (easily available in digital library resources like Academic Search Complete.) These should be quality, trustworthy sources I expect these to be the major sources you draw from in formulating your argument of how we should change the discussion.
The essay is in relation to body image, and the effects that advertisements have. Who is really to decide on these body standards and how they really should be. What we know for sure is that in the latest decades Media has played a major impact on the way we have viewed others and persistently they have always shown to complain about what the expectations are. Body-shaming in commercials the effects that it has on people. Sets an expectation that might not be realistic
Diet culture
Some of the sources: https://globalgirlsglow.org/body-image-and-self-esteem-how-diet-culture-impacts-girls-mental-health/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4024161?refreqid=excelsior%3Abf56d418c9af8b0400f57e0024c7fa6f&seq=1
(https://jeankilbourne.com), like her Killing Us Softly” series: https://www.killingussoftly4.org/
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