To complete the first stage of this activity, draft at least 500 words of notes.

To complete the first stage of this activity, draft at least 500 words of notes. Your notes should describe at least one specific piece of media and explain some of the aspects you’d like to analyze. Your notes should also share at least 2 preliminary sources that could support your angle of analysis.
Ensure the social media app that college student is familiar with. If you’re still not sure what media to write about, consider looking through the “watched recently” lists on your streaming apps. Open your games library. Look through your bookshelves. Writing about familiar texts can make this assignment much easier.
As you identify potential media texts to analyze, try to identify one or more themes that you could analyze in your paper. These themes represent potential “angles” for your analysis.
Your angle focuses your analysis on something specific. Strong rhetorical analyses give readers useful information that helps them better understand and interpret the media around them.
Remember, this essay is not asking you to simply identify rhetorical appeals or elements in a text. Your job is to analyze how a text uses rhetoric to engage with a specific topic. This is a more complex task that requires additional research to accomplish.
As you write about your chosen media, identify and discuss at least 2 preliminary sources that you can use to support your rhetorical analysis of at least 1 piece of media. These preliminary sources may not be of sufficient quality to include in the paper, but they should provide some information that supports your analysis.
When introducing any potential media text or secondary source, make sure to provide readers with the full title, the year of publication, or any other relevant context.
The goal of this activity is to make you choose a specific text for analysis and to help you identify a potential angle