Brace yourself It's time for the Rhetorical Analysis - Brace ...

First, here’s the link for the writing center. The tutors can help you with just about anything!

HW: Post your third (and final!) source entry.

Remember that the final drafts of Unit Two will be due on Nov 3rd– rough drafts due Nov 1!!

The final draft will include

  • Intro
  • 3 source entries (400 words each)
  • Conclusion

We’ll talk about the conclusion on Thursday!

In class today, we talked about summaries and rhetorical analyses.  We watched a video that gave you a few steps for writing a rhetorical analysis, if you feel lost.  Here they are:

  1. Describe the “rhetorical situation” (when was this written or made? For what purpose? For what audience?)
  2. What choices did the author and editors make? (What language did they choose? What fonts? What images? What tones of voice? Are they trying to appeal to the reader’s logic? Or their emotions? Or their sense of cool?)
  3. What effect do those choices have on you and why? What effect might they have on other people in the audience (and… why?) 
  4. What concrete examples (quotes, descriptions of images, etc) can you use to prove the points you make in questions 1,2,3?

Obviously you have to put your answers all together in paragraph form, but once you do, you’ll have a… rhetorical analysis!! (I know you’re double-exclamation point excited about that too)