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Twitter Politics - Metaphor, Enthymeme + Trump


Author: Jason Jarvis
Subject: Communication Studies
Source: CORA - Community of Online Research Assignments
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This assignment is a non-partisan way to interrogate the way the 45th POTUS uses Twitter using the concepts of Metaphor and Enthymeme. The assignment could be altered to focus on any Twitter handle or trending hashtag. The teacher should give a short 15 minute introduction the concepts and then break students up into small groups to decipher Tweets. The last portion of class is for group presentation/discussion of students findings.

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