Problem
Wendell Berry's Essay in Food Matters, Third edtion, pp. 46- 52:
All students will analyze the assigned essays using rhetorical analysis and rhetorical strategies in order to enrich your writing practices and to see what professional writers do in their own writing in order to win you over to their positions.
A. Who is the intended audience for this essay or piece? What evidence is provided in the essay or piece to suggest that your inference is true?
B. Construct what the explicit thesis or implicit thesis is which drives this essay or piece forward. Why is it significant? How does the author build his or her argument? Is the evidence convincing? If it is not, why is that so? What is the counterargument? Show examples from the text of what this might be.
C. What other rhetorical strategies are used to move this essay forward? Use the rhetorical analysis document as located in the drop down menu to assist you in your analysis. Find two or three rhetorical strategies that the author or authors use in this essay or piece to move the argument forward. Write what these strategies are and comment on their contributions to this essay/ piece.
D. Write personal response to this essay or piece. Is the essay successful? Does it move you? Would you recommend this piece to a friend? What are your thoughts on this piece?