I need you to fix my rhetorical analysis based on the feedback and instructions provided by my professor.
I’ll explain my feedback on the rhetorical analysis here:
Your rhetorical analysis would be in the revision stage still, because it doesn’t yet have the ideas that a rhetorical analysis requires. You have written about the author’s argument and their findings, but a rhetorical analysis does not deal much with that aspect of a piece. Instead, it is an analysis of how the author wrote that they did, and thus how effectively they used rhetoric. In your draft, I did not find the analysis of the author’s purpose, intended audience, tone, or logical fallacies, nor did I find the integral words “ethos,” “pathos,” “logos,” or “kairos.” These words are almost all that the document should cover. You can introduce the source as you did, but from there, you need to focus on how the author did what they did and how they appealed to readers: either through building credibility, engaging emotion, explaining things in a new way, or creating a sense of urgency. Generally, writers are using a combination of these appeals, and in a rhetorical analysis, it is your job to discern where that is, point is out to the reader of your rhetorical analysis, and then evaluate how “well” the writer influenced readers through the use of those pieces of rhetoric.
Assignment instructions: Rhetorical Analysis
Analyze a source to consider effectiveness
Length: at least 6 full paras., double spaced (about 3 pp.)
*We will work on this in a few class periods, so write and save on a separate document.
After generating a research question based on what you have read in How the Word is Passed, find a published source, rhetorically analyze its effectiveness, and determine if it answered your question or not, always using source support for your claims. Provide analysis of the rhetoric and textual evidence for all claims from that source: purpose, ethos (credibility), logos (logic), pathos (emotion), kairos (time), audience type and generation, persuasion techniques, and perhaps logical fallacies or tone. This careful analysis can help you form a habit of assessing a source’s credibility and its intended effect on audiences.
To start: Locate a source. What did you learn from the reading about this topic? What did you still want to know? Choose a credible, and published source that is related to the question you developed and might add insight to your reading. Introduce your source / why you chose it. Analyze. How credible is each author? How do they use their ethos to communicate about this topic? How does the author appeal to your emotions? Is the use of pathos ethical? Where is their logic clear or murky? Examine how ethos and pathos led you to accept, dismiss, or reject the author’s logos. When were the pieces written? Find out about the social context of the time and comment on the way the author used kairos to attend to the urgency of the moment.
To complete: Argue. Based on rhetorical elements, does this source help answer your question? How does it make an impact on how you understand a concept from the book? You must use quotes and paraphrases from the source to support all your claims.
Take a little mental break and then evaluate, based on these questions: Ask yourself:
Am I analyzing an article that could help me answer a question I have from Smith’s book?
Did I use evidence whenever I could, instead of telling readers that something was said?
Is my argument that the text was effective or ineffective obvious, based on my analysis?
Did I use the cycle of source use (CoSU) and include an MLA end-text citation?
Evaluation Checklist
Elements of essay
Comments
Purpose: Have you made a clear argument about the effectiveness of this source? Have you tied that argument to rhetorical analysis with textual evidence?
Genre: Have you included the terms ethos, pathos, logos, kairos? Have you analyzed the audience type, generation, and persuasive techniques?
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