write an analysis of the rhetoric using proper terminology, including the kinds of logical or emotional appeals being made

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Your task in this assignment is to analyze the techniques and strategies an author uses in deploying his or her argument. write an analysis of the rhetoric using proper terminology, including the kinds of logical or emotional appeals being made. In your thesis, you are essentially arguing whether or not the authors rhetoric or argument is successful and why you understand it to be so. A successful essay will focus on demonstrating why your position on the text is correct through a detailed analysis of the article you are engaging with. Ensure you include the following in your essays introduction:

 1. Who is the intended audience of the text? 

2. What is the purpose of the text (to argue, inspire, cajole, etc.)?

 3. What is the thesis or main argument of the essay? 

4. Then, most importantly, end your instruction with YOUR thesis statement, which should be your position on whether or not the author successfully put forward their argument and your supporting reasons for your position. These supporting reasons should then connect to the topic sentences of your body paragraphs. The majority of your essay should be based on key examples of how the author attempts to support their position. While your analysis may not be a matter of being right or wrong, if you do not support your argument about the text with evidence (examples from the text), your assertions will be ungrounded and therefore less convincing. Exceptional essays may engage in analysis of the essays use of stasis theory, structure, style, rhetorical techniques, evidence, and other aspects mentioned in Modules 4 and 5. MLA essay format and correct citation practice are required for this assignment. Refer to your Canadian Writers Reference handbook for information about necessary MLA formatting (double-spacing, page number, and course information placement, etc.) and the course syllabus for warnings regarding plagiarism.

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Introduction

• Provides the name and title of the object of study.

• Provides the general thesis of the object of study.

• Includes a thesis that explains what you will do and your standard of evaluation (how you will do it) and provides an initial statement about the relationship between the logical strengths and weaknesses.

Body

• Evaluates both the strengths and the weaknesses of the argument and evidence. Keep in mind that even within the same essay you might find that some claims are well supported by convincing evidence, while other claims may by supported by partial or fallacious evidence.

• Provides quotations that illustrate either the claims or the evidence that you will assess.

• Provides a reasonable analysis of the arguments that you identify.

• Your body paragraphs should make strong arguments and give effective evidence.

Conclusion

• Presents both the strengths and the weaknesses of the writing you have analyzed.

• Presents a development of the thesis statement.

• Provides an overall assessment of the work you are critiquing.