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 China.
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, use L1 lexicon for stylistic effect, and provide enough background information to contextualize the documents for your readers.