...Rhetorical Analysis The New York Times Editorial Board recently published an article expressing its opinion on the issue of court politicization. Kansas Republicans have demanded the expulsion of four State Supreme Court judges due to the panel exceeding the limits of the state Constitution. The Editorial Board wishes to generate a sense of resentment towards right-wing politicians in their quest to meddle with judicial independence and create support for the accused judges. Nevertheless, the article fails to convey the author's yearning for citizen participation through the misuse of rhetorical devices such as logos and formal diction. One can aptly find logical appeals throughout the article and while its abundance is not the concern, the...
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...After reading this article, I realized that organization is a method crucial in education. I believe organization is needed from classroom management down to structure of lessons. Dialectic is another method used every day in the classroom. Teachers organize information, make it meaningful for students, then introduce it in a classroom lesson making it easier to teach. I truly feel that this article is precise on when it comes to the education and the start of dialectic. Education is a method that all teachers have to learn and use. When it comes to prepping for a classroom lesson, teachers have to organize knowledge for the purpose of meaningful instructions. As teachers, we have to make sure the things we teach are meaningful and precise. We have to find reasoning and processing when it comes to certain contents. As an 8th grade math teacher, I strongly believe that I have to make sure math is meaningful and organized. I use a method called “Split Note Taking”, which organizes the though process for the students. I basically go through a math problem and figure out the steps and concepts the students need to know in order to understand the word problem. This process not only organizes the information for the students, but it also shows into great details of how to understand the concept. When it comes to math, if I do not make it real life, students will never find the meaning for what I am teaching them. I have to explain how they will use the information and show them...
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...Provide three rhetorical strategies that Jobs uses within the second anecdote to develop his argument. Directly quote as appropriate. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. Imagery We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Antithesis The heaviness of being successful was replaced by thelightness of being a beginner again Antithesis At the end of his third anecdote, there are two paragraphs in bold (my emphasis) that I would like for you to consider. From these two paragraphs, explain: The rationale (motivation) behind these paragraphs. The motivation behind these paragraphs in that the two perfectly describe how life should be and how life is out with the old and in with the new. Explain the analogy contained within the paragraphs. The analogy that could be seen within the two paragraphs is a comparison to technology, for example every new thing that is introduced is going to be eventually going to be replaced by something...
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...The Rhetorical Situation Purpose: Demonstrate how rhetorical analysis helps us better understand why a speech or other communicative act is or is not effective. Specifically, your goal is to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of the rhetorical strategies a speaker or writer uses given his or her rhetorical situation. Audience: Your primary audience is friends and family who are unfamilar with rhetorical analysis. Your secondary audience is rhetorical scholars; they will be familiar with the basic concepts of rhetorical analysis and will thus be able to judge the strength of your analysis. Topic: I will assemble a list of five speeches from American Rhetoric's speech bank you may choose from for your analysis. However, if you would like to use a different speech, or if you would like to use a text, video, or something else, speak with me before you begin working on your essay to receive approval. Key Terms Understanding these terms will help you craft a strong rhetorical analysis (we will read about these concepts and/or discuss them in class): * rhetorical situation * genre * the three rhetorical appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos * organization/arrangement * identification * tone * diction * sentence structure figures of speech (e.g. metaphors, epistrophe) Writing the Analysis In a rhetorical analysis, the writer's purpose is to explain how the rhetorical strategies a rhetor (speaker/writer) uses enchance or...
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...You have been working on short writing assignments and exercises that practice the three individual parts of a rhetorical analysis—identification of the rhetorical situation, close analysis of the parts of the work, and a critical evaluation of the author’s moves and effectiveness. Now you will be putting it all together. You will write a rhetorical analysis on one of the speeches found on this website: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html You will identify the rhetorical situation, do a close analysis of a principle or strategy being used, and draw a conclusion on how well the author has accomplished his or her objective. Make sure you do NOT use the same speech as your peers. Assignment: Choose one of the articles. Write...
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...Rhetorical Analysis No matter what fields you are in, we as academic writers will be familiar with rhetorical choices. Rhetorical choices play an important role in writing. They’re the “key ingredients” in a paper in order to capture readers’ attention and achieve writers’ purposes. When I was in Human Resource Organization Behaviors 101 class, professor Thomas Shirley assigned an ethics case for each group. I joined a group of five people and we got together for several group meetings. Finally, I was assigned to compose the “Ethical Analysis” section. Toward to the paper deadline, we produced the paper called “Starbucks: Friend or Foe.” The purpose of the assignment was to argue that whether the company’s decision was ethical when Starbucks fired employees for supporting unions and applied the four-component model of ethical decision making to this case. Discourse community is an essential factor when composing a paper. According to “Students Writing Handbook”, discourse community is a unique communication tool which people use to communicate with their readers within their fields (30). Since the paper was written for a required upper division major core course, the discourse community is all business majors. The genre was a general business paper with three sections: case summary, ethical analysis, and recommendations. We are college students are trained to become more professional in our careers. As a result, my group paper’s intended audiences were only Professor Thomas Shirley...
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...Rhetorical analysis, according to Susan-miller Cochran, Roy Stamper, and Stacey Cochran, is a form genre that analyze the text’s rhetoric context (30). Susan-miller Cochran, Roy Stamper, and Stacey Cochran states “In a rhetorical analysis, the writer uses rhetorical framework to understand how the context of the text help create meaning,” (30). The rhetorical framework writers use is rhetorical context that is; the author, the audience, the topic and the purpose (21,30). This is a key component in success for college because analyzing the text to understand the essential elements in the text, helps identify and “create” meaning (30). Rhetoric analysis will allow students to achieve a deeper comprehension of the text, contributing to students...
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...University of Phoenix Material Rhetorical Modes Quiz Complete the following chart to identify the purpose and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. Rhetorical mode Purpose Explain when or why each rhetorical mode is used. Structure Explain what organizational method works best with each rhetorical mode. Tips Provide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. Narration Narration is used to tall a story. The best organizational method is to place examples in chronligical order. 1. Focus on a single event and elinate unimportant details. 2. Use reporters questions such as; Who? What? Where? When? Why? And How? Illustration Illustration demonstrates a point using examples. Use examples to make your point in the strongest and clearest way possible. 1. You should use evidence to support your examples. 2. Make sure concepts that readers are already familiar with are not overly explained. Description Description is creating a picture in words for you reader using sensory details. Organize from specific to general – working from details up to the main idea. 1. You should try yo use all five senses. 2. You should use as many details as possible. Classification Classification is dividing topics into smaller subgroups. You can organize by placing items from important to least important. 1. You should divide topics into categories that do not overlap. 2. Always...
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...[pic] English 101 Assignments Unit One Rhetorical Situation Analysis Report (Graded as homework) Completing this rhetorical situation analysis “report” will help you to understand the context—the rhetorical situation—in which a text was written, identify the writer’s intended audience and rhetorical purpose, and consider how effective his or her strategies are for accomplishing that purpose. Text: “My View: Should Everyone Go to College?” by Mike Rose (Report due September 3rd) http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/09/my-view-should-everyone-go-to-college/ “What Value Really Means in Higher Education” by Karen R. Lawrence (Report due September 17th) http://hechingerreport.org/content/value-really-means-higher-education_15129/ Present your responses in the form of short answers to the questions below (not in essay form). Note: As you answer the questions, be guided by the information Rhetorical Choices: Analyzing and Writing Arguments provides in Chapters 3 and 4 to refresh your understanding of rhetorical situation, purpose, audience, kairos, the ethos, pathos, and logos appeals, and rhetorical analysis. 1. Where did this text originally appear? 2. What is the genre of the text? What are the common rhetorical purposes for texts in this genre? (See pp. 22-24 in Rhetorical Choices for examples) 3. What can you discern about the discourse community in which this text is operating? Who is part of the discourse community, what values...
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...I do not have a much experience writing a rhetorical analysis. The last time I practiced with writing a rhetorical analysis was in High School but it did not consist of writing a 6 page paper. In High School we analysed short speeches but did not go in dept on writing multiple analysis. So when writing a rhetorical analysis on a blog for this semester I had to do more research on how to write a rhetorical analysis. The activities that were helpful were the outside assignment and class workshop. The outside assignments were helpful because they focus on teaching writing skills. When doing the assignments, it showed the pages to read and then gave a small test based on the readings. One of the assignments was on “Nouns and Pro-nouns” and it...
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...During this course, I been leaning to write with the help of different literary devices such as visual texts or books. For two of the major assignment for this course 1301 English I used images to write a rhetorical analysis about the negative side of Facebook and with the help of a book called The Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement...
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...“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” - Rhetorical Analysis Description: In a typical AP analysis essay you will be required to discuss the rhetorical strategies the author uses to achieve his purpose. Sometimes specific strategies will be suggested like sentence structure or diction. But usually the prompt is rather open and it is up to you to decide on those elements that are most significant and let those be the focus of you paper. In any case your analysis should have the following qualities: • Clear focus on specific strategies which are significant • References the text directly through direct quotes and paraphrase. • Analysis goes beyond mere identification and discusses the effect of the strategies used. • Strategies used are connected to the author’s purpose. All of the characteristics above should be evident through out the essay and in every paragraph. A word on paragraph structure: • Beginning o Identifies strategy which is the focus of the paragraph o Makes reference to the effect and, or purpose of the strategy, o Indicates a specific portion of the text o Provides a transition from previous paragraph • Middle o Provides specific examples/ evidence from text o Explains and elaborates on the effect, provides detailed and specific insights • End o Links back to thesis, provides big picture analysis of the importance of the focus Assignment: Compose...
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...Example 1 Summary: This presentation is designed to introduce your students to a variety of factors that con- tribute to strong, well-organized writing. This presentation is suitable for the beginning of a composition course or the assignment of a writing project in any class. Contributors:Ethan Sproat, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Allen Brizee Last Edited: 2012-04-27 10:46:02 Example 1: “I Have a Dream” Speech A lot of what was covered above may still seem abstract and complicated. To illustrate how diverse kinds of texts have their own rhetorical situations, consider the following examples. First, consider Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Because this speech is famous, it should be very easy to identify the basic elements of its particular rhetorical situation. Text The text in question is a 17-minute speech written and delivered by Dr. King. The basic medium of the text was an oral speech that was broadcast by both loudspeakers at the event and over radio and television. Dr. King drew on years of training as a minister and public speaker to deliver the speech. He also drew on his extensive education and the tumultuous history of racial prejudices and civil rights in the US. Audiences at the time either heard his speech in person or over radio or television broadcasts. Part of the speech near the end was improvised around the repeated phrase “I have a dream.” Author http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/625/08/ Page 1 of 9 Purdue OWL: The Rhetorical...
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...Finding the sources turned out to be pretty easy because I used the sources that had been provided. I chose to do my rhetorical analysis on the narrative by Sarah Louise Augustus, so that will be my primary source and then the articles titled "General Structure of Slave Narratives", "An introduction to the Slave Narrative", and "What is Literature?" will be the remaining sources. Summarizing each source proved to be slightly more difficult as some of them were quite lengthy, which made it a challenge to adequately encompass the message of the source in only a small paragraph. Originally I found it difficult to decide what style I should use when writing the summaries, but reading through the examples provided helped me determine the proper...
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...must have an extensive vocabulary to be able express yourself. To be an effective writer means the reader will understand thoroughly everything you are writing on the paper. My personal experience in writing was challenging and valuable at the same time. This semester I took an Academic Writing and Argument course with professor Missy Watson. During this semester, I learned how to analyze arguments, write rhetorical analysis essay, work with researched and visual arguments, effectively...
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