Prompt: For this paper you will use Walter Lippmann’s chapter “Leaders and the Rank and File” as a lens to analyze a text of your choosing.

Prompt: For this paper you will use Walter Lippmann’s chapter “Leaders and the Rank and File” as a lens to analyze a text of your choosing. Your argument should support a claim about how your leader, within the text you’ve chosen, is doing some of the things that Lippmann says that leaders do. The text that you have to analyze and compare to Walter Lippmann’s chapter is https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/farewell-address/. This is trumps fair well adress.

Student Learning Outcomes

Analyze a variety of print and digital texts to articulate relationships between an argument’s elements and the contexts within which the argument was created.

Analyze rhetorics of global and structurally marginalized communities, with attention to the ways rhetoric creates, enforces, and disrupts power relationships historically and contemporarily.

Evaluate both print and digital arguments through a process of critical inquiry, examining the arguments in their original contexts and in the context of other arguments in order to discover relationships between texts.

Locate, evaluate, and synthesize material from sources related to a public discussion in order to generate and support arguments.

Contribute an informed argument to an ongoing public discussion by identifying and assessing the rhetorical context for an issue.

Compose a variety of texts, including elements of digital and/or non-print text, through a multi-stage recursive process.

Employ conventions of academic writing in rhetorically purposeful ways.

Structure: There is not a prescriptive structure for the paper but however you choose to write you should fully address the prompt, do everything that the rubric details, and have clear and organized paragraphs.

For this essay, you will need 2-4 pieces of evidence from your text. Each of these pieces of evidence should be connected to a specific Lippmann idea by directly quoting or paraphrasing/summarizing from the Lippmann chapter in order to clearly demonstrate what specific concepts are at play within your text. Make sure the evidence is MLA cited.