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Propaganda

http://www.propagandacritic.com/

PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY

This website provides extensive information about the historical and contemporary uses of propaganda in politics, advertising, wartime campaigns, and other public arenas. Propaganda techniques and logical fallacies are described in great detail. Many examples from political speeches, flyers and tracts are also provided. This site includes a Propaganda Gallery of video clips featuring examples of wartime propaganda. The print materials and media clips provide many opportunities for students and teachers to examine uses of propaganda and its impact on public opinion. (author/ncl)

CAREER APPLICATION

A brilliant site for all career-technical students and teachers, this content resource teaches critical thinking, powers of observation, problems with assumptions, stereotyping, and generalities; demonstrates and provides concrete examples of the use and misuse of logic; and provides contemporary and historical analyses of propaganda. The site encourages independent thinking and a healthy questioning of given, mass-produced, and publicized information. The resource may be adapted to any career-technical field by examining the type of mass information available in that field: advertising of products or approaches, political stances on controversial issues (e.g. nursing homes, agricultural subsidies, environmental concerns), or workplace issues (e.g. health care, minimum wage, unionization, discrimination).

OHIO STANDARDS

English Language Arts Standards

Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard

Benchmarks (8 - 10)

Identify examples of rhetorical devices and valid and invalid inferences, and explain how authors use these devices to achieve their purposes and reach their intended audiences.

Benchmarks (11 - 12)

Identify and analyze examples of rhetorical devices and valid and invalid inferences.

Critique the effectiveness and validity of arguments in text and whether they achieve the author's purpose.

Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Grade Level Indicators (Grade 8)

Assess the adequacy, accuracy and appropriateness of an author's details, identifying persuasive techniques (e.g., bandwagon, testimonial and emotional word repetition) and examples of bias and stereotyping.

Identify the author's purpose and intended audience for the text.

Grade Level Indicators (Grade 9)

Assess the adequacy, accuracy and appropriateness of an author's details, identifying persuasive techniques (e.g., bandwagon, testimonial, transfer, glittering generalities, emotional word repetition, bait and switch) and examples of propaganda, bias and stereotyping.

Identify the features of rhetorical devices used in common types of public documents, including newspaper editorials and speeches.

Grade Level Indicators (Grade 10)

Assess the adequacy, accuracy and appropriateness of an author's details, identifying persuasive techniques (e.g., transfer, glittering generalities, bait and switch) and examples of propaganda, bias and stereotyping.

Describe the features of rhetorical devices used in common types of public documents, including newspaper editorials and speeches.

Grade Level Indicators (Grade 11)

Analyze the rhetorical devices used in public documents, including newspaper editorials and speeches.

Analyze and critique organizational patterns and techniques including repetition of ideas, appeals to authority, reason and emotion, syntax and word choice that authors use to accomplish their purpose and reach their intended audience.

Distinguish between valid and invalid inferences and provide evidence to support the findings, noting instances of unsupported inferences, fallacious reasoning, propaganda techniques, bias and stereotyping.

Examine an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Evaluate the effectiveness and validity of arguments in public documents and their appeal to various audiences.

Grade Level Indicators (Grade 12)

Analyze the rhetorical devices used in public documents, including state or school policy statements, newspaper editorials and speeches.

Examine an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Evaluate the effectiveness and validity of arguments in public documents and their appeal to various audiences.

Communications: Oral and Visual Standard

NATIONAL STANDARDS

Standards for the English Language Arts

Range of materials and purposes for reading

RESOURCE TYPE

Content Resource

STANDARDS ALIGNMENT

Grades 8–12

CAREER FIELDS

Agricultural & Environmental Systems;
Arts & Communication;
Business & Administrative Services;
Construction Technologies;
Education & Training;
Engineering & Science Technologies;
Finance;
Government & Public Administration;
Health Science;
Hospitality & Tourism;
Human Services;
Information Technology;
Law & Public Safety;
Manufacturing Technologies;
Marketing;
Transportation Systems;
General Career Skills

TOPICS

English Language Arts --
Reading;
Strategies - Informational Texts;
Communication;
Viewing;
Literature;
Nonfiction;

FOUND IN

AdLIT
Standards First

KEYWORDS

rhetorical devices;
persuasive techniques;
media awareness;
author's bias

Publisher: University of Washington

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