Analysis of the chosen rhetorical strategies employed by the authors
Include an analysis of the chosen rhetorical strategies employed by the authors and the effect on the audience; how are they employing the use of rhetorical appeals to engage and persuade their audience?
Analysis of the chosen rhetorical strategies employed by the authors
Include an analysis of the chosen rhetorical strategies employed by the authors and the effect on the audience;
how are they employing the use of rhetorical appeals to engage and persuade their audience?
Identify the specific appeals used and provide examples.
How are the articles compare d and contraste d in terms of the choices the writers make to persuade their audience?
Who do you think the audience is for these two authors? And do you think their audiences are the same?
Review the Academic Habits of Mind Activity 3 in Chapter 1 to which you responded in the beginning of the course.
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Rhetoric, as the previous chapters have discussed, is the way that authors use and manipulate language in order to persuade an audience.
Once we understand the rhetorical situation out of which a text is created (why it was written, for whom it was written,
by whom it was written, how the medium in which it was written creates certain constraints, or perhaps freedoms of expression),
we can look at how all of those contextual elements shape the author’s creation of the text.
Unlike summary, a rhetorical analysis does not only require a restatement of ideas; instead, you must recognize rhetorical moves that an author is making in an attempt to persuade his or her audience to do or to think something.
In the 21st century’s abundance of information, it can sometimes be difficult to discern
what is a rhetorical strategy and what is simple manipulation; however, an
understanding of rhetoric and rhetorical moves will help you become more savvy with
the information surrounding you on a day-to-day basis.