Unit 2: Rhetorical Analysis Of A Writing Assignment
Essay 2: Rhetorical Analysis
The major writing assignment in Unit 2 is a rhetorical analysis essay. You will explain why an audience would or would not find your primary text persuasive. You will use information learned from your secondary text to show key information about the context (the audience, the circumstances, or the speaker). By teaching you to think critically about audience and argumentation, this analysis will prepare you to write your persuasive essay in Unit 3.
General
Your purpose in this four- to seven-page essay is to closely analyze one position in your controversy. You’ll do this through the careful analysis of a single text advocating a position. For our purposes here, a “text” can be loosely defined as any persuasive effort that can be interpreted. A text may be a print article (such as an opinion column in a newspaper), a blog entry, a video, a commercial, an image, or a webpage. You should select a text that makes a clear argument—a text that very clearly asks the audience to believe, feel, or do something.
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Your primary task is to analyze the text’s argument. Introduce the text you’ll be analyzing. Tell us the following: Who put this argument together? Where did the argument appear? Who is the audience: Who is likely to read, see, or watch this text? Also tell us how the argument speaks to your chosen controversy. In addition, you should briefly summarize what the text says and label the central reasons and key evidence. And ultimately, you must analyze how the argument relates to the audience. Some things you’ll want to discern and describe include
• the intended
The major writing assignment in Unit 2 is a rhetorical analysis essay. You will explain why an audience would or would not find your primary text persuasive. You will use information learned from your secondary text to show key information about the context (the audience, the circumstances, or the speaker). By teaching you to think critically about audience and argumentation, this analysis will prepare you to write your persuasive essay in Unit 3.
General
Your purpose in this four- to seven-page essay is to closely analyze one position in your controversy. You’ll do this through the careful analysis of a single text advocating a position. For our purposes here, a “text” can be loosely defined as any persuasive effort that can be interpreted. A text may be a print article (such as an opinion column in a newspaper), a blog entry, a video, a commercial, an image, or a webpage. You should select a text that makes a clear argument—a text that very clearly asks the audience to believe, feel, or do something.
Specifics …show more content…
Your primary task is to analyze the text’s argument. Introduce the text you’ll be analyzing. Tell us the following: Who put this argument together? Where did the argument appear? Who is the audience: Who is likely to read, see, or watch this text? Also tell us how the argument speaks to your chosen controversy. In addition, you should briefly summarize what the text says and label the central reasons and key evidence. And ultimately, you must analyze how the argument relates to the audience. Some things you’ll want to discern and describe include
• the intended