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Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps towards Rhetorical Analysis by Laura Bolin Carroll

Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps towards Rhetorical Analysis by Laura Bolin Carroll, talks about the fundamentals and daily use of rhetorical analysis.The author starts her essay by emphasizing on the way we judge and analyze things that profit from a personal point of view. We use rhetorical analysis on an ongoing basis, several times without knowing that we are analyzing it. Laura describes that there are three parts to understanding the context of rhetoric—requirement, audience, and constraints.

The author relates our own pursuit of judgemental perspective to the implications of rhetorical analysis , the way we use language through media and other pop culture adverts to persuade and use rhetorical such as pathos , logos, pathos to convey the use of persuasive writing and speech. When a new person comes in, we judge them by the way they dress, but sometimes, or most of the time, we’re wrong about the person we thought they were supposed to be. But it is rhetoric in the sense of her claim that we judge any new person who comes in. Rhetoric is a powerful collection of instruments that we regular writers can use and use to set our point, and a set of rituals that we perform in our daily lives.

“(un)learning My Name” by Mohamed Hassan and “Zayn Malik and the Songs that Bring Us to Prayer” by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Unlearning my name by Mohamed Hassan is a poem depicting the perfect immigration transition to new languages, culture and many things that factor a new beginning to people.

People make judgments in society based on who they think you ought to be, though that’s sometimes not who you actually are. Mohamed Hassan brings awareness to that transition through his poem (Un)Learning My Name, which illustrates his struggle between conformity and self-identity. Hassan begins with the experience of being mistaken for a white man because of his unique blue eyes, and how he felt like he had forgotten who he was and why he couldn’t impose who he was. The poem actually relates to the narrative of HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB  song that brings us to prayer how two people raised differently in a migrants background could interact by a song and assimilate in a very different way. One defines himself  by a well pronounced name and establishes cultural and religious ways and one connects it to it but somehow evades his identity.  The other one is a superstar that is define by the article wrote by HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB  as an ”The work Zayn does, as I see it, is more in service to the young Muslims reveling in the pleasures of their non-Muslim peers, and the guilt that can come with that. Zayn is an unmistakable sex symbol, covered in tattoos, who sings about love and intimacy. ” Culminating the idea of different transition of the immigrants experience and how they associate and grow with it as an identity.  

How to read like a writer.

I liked the reading piece how to read like a writer because it implies the steps we take when we write. The need to compare or identify, copy even the format of somebody else writing to embody what is the idea behind an almost perfect writing.

The author means the connection we feel when we read a piece and how much of a definition it turns out to be for our own writing.To take one thing and fit it in one genre. The reciprocity of how we write to what is relevant and popular like a speech or that one original essay that we read and captured our attention. The author states in the text how he did found difficult to read and focus to what somebody else wrote and came to understand the choice of words that a writer chooses is responsible for the reader attention stance. To further explain the author implies his opinion: “I came to realize that all writing consists of a series of choices.I was an English major in college, but I don’t think I ever thought much about reading. I read all the time. I read for my classes and on the computer and sometimes for fun, but I never really thought about the important connections between reading and writing, and how reading in a particular way could also make me a better writer.”

This piece is a module for students or future writers. A cataclysm to prevent doubts on how to write and what is our process, for who we write or why.

The genre is article like, a genre that informs and provides clarity on the do’s and don’ts of writing.

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