Rhetorical Analysis Essay -
Objectives:
- Use techniques for critical reading
- Evaluate how personal context influences your own and others' perspectives
- Understand how perspective and bias can influence argument
- Conduct basic library database searches
- Summarize sources effectively
- Practice responsible use and correct citation of sources
- Write a rhetorical analysis
Instructions:
For this assignment, you will apply the techniques of rhetorical analysis to an article on media violence essay or counterfeit merchandise that is most persuasive to you. You will find a new article on either of these topics. Be sure to explain how your source is a credible one. You'll be writing as yourself, with your audience being someone who is critical of your ideas. This essay is essentially an expansion of the elements in a rhetorical analysis paragraph into a fully developed rhetorical analysis essay. Instead of a sentence or two on each element, you'll have an entire paragraph to examine each element in more depth.
Tips for Organizing The Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Here's one way to translate the paragraph elements into essay elements:
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Introduction
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How the essay begins
Problem the author identifies
Personal context of the audience
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Summary paragraph that includes the author's opening strategy, the problem(s) the essay addresses, major points in the essay, the personal context of the intended audience, and the author's purpose in writing the essay.
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Thesis statement
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n/a
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Assessment of whether the author's rhetorical strategies are effective
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Body Paragraph 1
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Main method of appeal - logos, ethos, or pathos
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Main method of appeal, quotations that illustrate this method, and commentary connecting your support to the overall judgment of the essay you made in your thesis, and how your personal context plays into this judgment
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Body Paragraph 2
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Secondary method of appeal - logos, ethos, or pathos
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Secondary method of appeal, quotations that illustrate this method, and commentary connecting your support to the overall judgment of the essay you made in your thesis, and how your personal context plays into this judgment
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Body Paragraph 3
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How the author addresses opposing views
How the author refutes opposing views
The author's overall conclusion
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Here is where you will judge whether the essay is persuasive. In addition to analyzing how the author addresses and refutes opposing views, you need to decide whether these opposing views are fairly represented (or does the author skip over points a critic would find important?). In addition, you will need to decide whether you are satisfied with the writer's refutation and overall conclusions.
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Conclusion
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Overall impression of whether the argument is effective or ineffective, and why
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Overall impression of whether the argument is effective or ineffective, and why. Which elements of the strategy do you think would be most persuasive to a reader who (like you) agrees with the argument? Do you think this strategy would also be persuasive for a reader with a different viewpoint?
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