Project : Contrastive-Comparative Rhetorical Analysis, "Today in the News" (1,500-2,000 words) -
Write a contrastive-comparative rhetorical analysis, focusing on the rhetorical situations of a US (e.g., The New York Times, Washington Post) and a national newspaper from your home country, region, or other nation/region of which you can read the language (e.g., UK, China, Japan, Mexico).
You will compare the same news story in the two (or more) presses, using the concepts of rhetoric and rhetorical situation to explain the similarities and differences in the stories' presentations.
You may also choose to compare other newspaper elements such as comparing the two papers' front pages, use of photography, and so forth.
When comparing texts, the stories/headlines/graphics must be from the same day. Your analysis should define and describe each paper's rhetorical situation and use of rhetoric, provide a summary of the stories' content, provide enough background information to contextualize the documents for your readers, and use the following key terms:
exigence, audience, and constraints.
Paper Structure
Introduction: What is the topic/issue engaged by both stories? How does each story approach the topic/issue in similar or different ways?
1st Section
Give context to the rhetorical situation of story #1. What is the exigency, audience, and constraints? Describe how it is engaging with the topic/issue in detail, utilizing these key terms and quoting specific language as evidence.
2nd Section
Give context to the rhetorical situation of story #2. What is the exigency, audience, and constraints? Describe how it is engaging with the topic/issue in detail, utilizing these key terms and quoting specific language as evidence.
Conclusion