Artifact Two
I created this artifact in the Fall of 2024 in Dr. Sladky’s Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition course, ENGL 3050. The original assignment was our final multimodal project that required us to come up with a presentation on a topic or concept of our choice and incorporate multimodal elements in it. My project was an expository brochure, mainly for women, on Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of “other.” I chose to include this artifact in my portfolio because it was a creative project that I really enjoyed making and researching for, and it reflects a part of rhetoric’s history that has always fascinated me. The brochure is strong in its pleasing aesthetic and digestible information, but if I were to revise it, I would break up some of the text blocks on a couple of pages and create more blank space so it is less intimidating.
The text can be accessed below or via this link which will open up Google Docs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-iPmus0wvlvSAQTz-clNJVynfGI5UhqX/view?usp=sharing
Works Cited
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Vintage Classic, 2015.
Bergoffen, Debra, and Megan Burke. “Simone de Beauvoir.” Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, Stanford University, 11 Jan. 2023, plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/#RecoBeau.
Henry-Tierney, Pauline. “Simone de Beauvoir the Memorialist: The Running Threads
Connecting Us.” Paragraph, vol. 46, no. 2, July 2023, pp. 259–74. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2023.0433.
Nicholas, Lucy, and Sal Clark. “Gender, Sex and Freedom: Testing the Theoretical Limits of the
Twenty-First-Century ‘Gender Wars’ with Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone and Luce Irigaray.” Paragraph, vol. 46, no.
3, Nov. 2023, pp. 354–71. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2023.0442.
Ritchie, Joy S., and Kate Ronald. Available Means: An Anthology of Women’s Rhetoric(s). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.