Because epideictic messaging and rhetoric are often identified as "not" deliberative or forensic, rather than clearly defined as "epideictic", the goal of this
exercise is to ensure that you have the ability to differentiate between these categories of rhetoric and recognize messages that are primarily epideictic in
nature.
Your task in this assignment is to review the definitions of epideictic, deliberative, and forensic as outlined in this module and conduct an analysis of a
message to determine how and why it is an epideictic message. Then write your analysis using the following steps.
Step 1: Find an example of "breaking news" in the local community or regional area. Avoid outright opinion pieces as they are usually deliberative in
orientation. Also avoid national and international news. The "breaking news" should be informational about a local person, place, event, issue, or topic of
local/regional interest.
Step 2: Examine (inspect in detail) the message with the intention of categorizing and labeling the information within the message as epideictic, deliberative,
or possibly forensic. (Many of these may not have forensic elements, though data listings are forensic.)
Step 3: Determine which of the elements categorized in step 1 illustrate why this message is epideictic. Write a one-sentence argumentative claim illustrati…
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