Assignment -
This is two part project the first part is a draft and the second is the full work.
A full draft means draft paragraphs for the first three sections (though the third section might be a couple of paragraphs plus some notes/bullet points with potential ideas). They can be rough paragraphs. The more you write for your draft, the more your tutor will have to give you feedback on, of course, so more is better - but you will still get some credit for a partial draft.
Write an analysis of how it is written to offer a convincing argument. Your analysis should describe and explain specific writing strategies employed by the author/s, with reference to the specific topic and audience of the article (that is, the "rhetorical situation")
Follow these guidelines to develop and structure your analysis.
- Label your sections as suggested below; you do not need other subheadings, nor an introduction or conclusion.
- For sections 2 and 3, use PIE paragraph structure (as discussed in the course materials), so that every point you are making is supported and explained.
- The word count suggestions are approximate, but note that section 1 should be brief; work towards an overall word count of 1500 words total.
Part 1: Overview
For this section, you'll draw on your skim reading of the whole article, though it will help to pay close attention to the abstract and/or introduction, the thesis, and the conclusion.
In four or five sentences, introduce your chosen article, and summarise the main argument and the rhetorical situation. You will mention the writers, the article's title, the place of publication and audience, the topic and the writers' stance on it (i.e. their thesis or main claim), and offer a brief description of how they support their case.
This should take about 200 words at most.
Part 2: Conversation and Context
For this section, you'll need to look closely at the part of the article near the beginning where the writers review previous scholarship and describe other aspects of the context for their writing.
Discuss how the writers portray the academic conversation on this topic in such a way that their own research and writing seems necessary. Refer to the writers' specific rhetorical situation: that is, from reading this section of your analysis, we should understand what the academic conversation is like when it comes to this topic, and what these writers are adding to that conversation.
This will take about 300 words.
Part 3: Key Strategies
For this section, you'll identify strategies that you think are particularly significant for the article's authors. So, you'll need to pay close attention to the parts of the article where those strategies are developed. This might be where the writers discuss their method, where they represent and interpret evidence, or where they reflect on results or what remains to be researched - it depends on what you choose.
Using one paragraph per strategy, discuss three or four additional significant rhetorical strategies in your article. For each one, identify the strategy, provide textual evidence of it, and explain why it is significant in this rhetorical situation.
Remember that, as you explain each strategy, it may be useful to link the strategy to the disciplinary audience. That is, you can discuss how the authors use particular strategies - language choice, kinds of evidence or reasoning, ways of sequencing ideas, and so on - to engage readers with their discipline's knowledge, interests, and/or values.
You've got the rest of the word limit for this - so, about 1000 words.
Part 4: References or Works Cited
Locate the citation information for the article - the author(s) names, the title, the name of the journal or publisher, the publication year, the page numbers, and so forth.
A complete citation for the article, to include in a References (APA) or Works Cited (MLA) section.
This is not part of the word count for this assignment.
Reading Article - Rhetorical analysis of Handy and Rowlands Article Holly Taylor.
Attachment:- Reading Article.rar