.Description        rhetorical analysis

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Essay 1 Don’t forget your Essay Basics Reminder In a rhetorical analysis essay, you are expected to interpret & evaluate/assess the ways in which a writer or speaker conveys a point to a targeted audience through various devices, including vocabulary, metaphor, hyperbole, example, allusion, and others. Your job, as the analytical writer, is to break down, dissect, observe, and describe the argument’s major point. And describe how each element will convince the target audience of the overlying message. and whether the text does that successfully or not. Consequently, you will write an essay that answers WHAT the author’s main purpose and argument is, WHAT audience it targets, .

HOW the author uses rhetorical elements, strategies, and devices (covered in class discussion and the textbook) to persuasively convey his/her message to an identified audience. When in doubt, always try to answer the question. What is this article’s, novel’s, commercial’s meaning?. And also how is this article/novel/commercial using rhetoric to make its audience believe.  How does the article persuade and inform them?. This means that reading comprehension is crucial.

You must first recognize and understand the author’s purpose. Then, you have to read between the lines. What rhetorical strategies has the author chosen and why?. In other words, you have to rhetorically situate that article you’re analyzing.  You should NOT see yourself as part of the audience.  Therefore you should stand apart as observers. You see the audience. And finally you see the author. What is the author doing in order to affect the minds of the audience?. Pretend as if you are an omniscient observer who has the ability to see the devices/techniques of the speaker and their effects on the audience. Now, below is a list of possible articles that you will explore.

 Further Rhetoric analysis  guidelines

First, after reading the list, decide on what speech or text you will choose for your rhetorical analysis. (You will find all of these works  by simply doing a Google Search or just click the links to the articles below). Pick only ONE to analyze.  Getting it Twisted by Jabari Asim Opposing Images: “Third World Women” and “Welfare Queens” by Nazneen Mehta The dangerous messages some educators send to Black students by Joseph Cook Terry Crews’s Family Comment Perpetuates Toxic Masculinity by Dr. Jenn Jackson The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste by Michelle Alexander Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person by Oliver Burkeman Studies find high achievers underestimate their talents.

While underachievers overestimate theirs Why intersectionality can’t wait by Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw. Beating yourself up is not as helpful as you think Students are free to use other articles. But they must be approved by instruction first.  All essays are to be written in accordance with MLA guidelines (2016 updates).  Rhetoric analysis essay will be between 4-5 pages. Margins should be set at one inch, although the Microsoft Word default of one and one-quarter inch is acceptable. Font should be 12 point Times New Roman or Calibri. Students should NOT provide title pages or enclose papers in any type of folder. Additionally when sources are used, appropriate documentation must be included. Papers must be typed. Handwritten papers will not be accepted. Finally use correct grammar, word choice, sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation. 

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