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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With All Hallows’ Eve and Dîa de Los Muertos looming, this could be the ideal time to engage your students (and their tacit anxieties about Doctor Frankenstein) in a rhetorical analysis of technical communication
materials related to body donation programs for medical education. Consider, for example, the UCLA program at
<a href="https://www.uclahealth.org/programs/donatedbody">https://www.uclahealth.org/programs/donatedbody</a>. Here you will find examples of FAQs, donor forms, instructions, a definition of water cremation, a memorial service video, and explanations of the
several criteria for donations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It will also be instructive to compare/contrast materials available from the body donation programs of various locations and institutions: for example, in New York at
<a href="https://amsny.org/initiatives/anatomical-donations/">https://amsny.org/initiatives/anatomical-donations/</a> or in Illinois at
<a href="https://www.agaillinois.org">https://www.agaillinois.org</a> or in Colorado at
<a href="https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/state-anatomical-board">https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/state-anatomical-board</a>. Your local body donation program will also have materials available for examination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Students might assess how program materials try to generate the ethos, logos, and pathos necessary to inspire donations or might weigh the success/failure of a program’s persuasive efforts. Questions about
the clarity of program policies and practices as well as the propriety of words and images are likely to elicit animated class discussions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Professor Emeritus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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