Rhetorical essay
Do one of the following:
- Choose a non-fiction essay (with a sufficiently substantial basis for a meaningful analysis) from the textbook. Please choose an essay you have not worked on before. You should also not choose an essay that has been used in one of the textbook’s sample rhetorical analyses, like Sarah Schmidt’s "College Girl to Call Girl," or Martin Luther King Jr’s "The Ways of Meeting Oppression."
- Ask your tutor to recommend non-fiction articles (outside of the textbook) that might be appropriate choices for this assignment.
- Choose from this list of recently published articles:
- “Your E-Book is Reading You” by Alexandra Alter (The Wall Street Journal is accessible through the AU Journal library.) this reading will no longer be available after July 31, 2019
- “The Death of Honesty” by William Damon
- “Daddy issues” by Sandra Tsing Loh (This one is long but worth it.)
- “The Vegan Carnivore?“ by Julian Baggini
- “How Much of the Internet is Fake: Turns Out, A Lot of It, Actually” by Max Read
How to Proceed with the Rhetorical Analysis
- The article has to be at the forefront of your discussion at all times.
- Focus on the article’s rhetorical methods and style. Visit the University of British Columbia’s Writers’ Workshop segment called “Rhetorical Analysis: Critical Writing”
- Carefully review the checklist below, but note this: In your analysis, you will report on the rhetorical techniques the writer uses to support his or her thesis. Your job is not to mark the essay or article, not to write a review of the essay or article, just to analyze its rhetoric.
- Write a working thesis.
- Create an outline and consider speaking with your tutor to review your thesis and outline. We strongly encourage you to do so.
- Write your first draft.
- Create a Works Cited or References page, and as we have reminded you previously, do not guess, and do not use a software program. Just pay careful attention to detail, and ask your tutor for help as required.
- Revise and edit your draft. You should have produced and edited at least one preliminary draft before you hand in the final copy.
- Consider using the Write Site’s coaching services. Tutors are not expected or encouraged to review your drafts, but reviewing drafts is one of the mandates of the Write Site.
- Study the assignment checklist and answer the questions honestly.
- When you’re ready, upload your assignment through the assignment drop box.
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NOTE
You will find sample analyses in the textbook chapters on critical analysis and rhetorical analysis. While these are good models in general, some of them do not do precisely what we are asking of you in this assignment. For example, they do not provide an explicit direct-list thesis statement (thesis + essay map) at the end of the opening paragraph. There are other matters that are not in sync.
Checklist for Rhetorical Analysis Essay
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