Compare and contrast Rhetorical analysis
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Rationale
The purpose of a rhetorical analysis is to analyze another writer’s argument. For this assignment, you use your rhetorical analysis skills to compare the argumentative strategies of two authors. Of course, your essay should address what the writers have written, but the emphasis of your rhetorical analysis essay should be a close examination of how the writers have presented their arguments.
While you may certainly agree or disagree with elements of the authors’ arguments, your primary purpose is to analyze and compare the strategies these two writers have used to be persuasive. Demonstrate that you have uncovered interesting, important things about the way the authors’ arguments have been presented and how they are contributing to a larger discussion about issues related to higher education.
The Topic
Choose two essays from readings 1-8 (Wallace through Vroman) in Module 2 “Reading and Understanding Arguments.” You may find it convenient to analyze the same reading you used for the Academic Precis assignment as one of your essays for analysis, though that is not a requirement.
What Should Be Analyzed?
We have already discussed how understanding an arguments rhetorical situation helps us analyze the ways in which an author or authors use specific strategies to persuade their intended audience. Your job in the Compare and Contrast essay is to identify elements of the rhetorical situation of each essay that you believe are similar, different, or a little bit of both. Remember our discussions about compare/contrast in class. Don’t just list the things that seem alike or different—explain to the reader of your essay how these comparisons or contrasts are meaningful to the larger conversation in which these two essays are engaged.
Listed below are the sorts of things your compare and contrast rhetorical analysis should consider. Each of these elements are intended to help you to articulate in your essay the ways in which the authors use these strategies toward an intended purpose (to persuade the audience that a particular idea is true or that something must be done). This list is neither a checklist nor an outline, and not every question will apply.
Argument: What is their main claim? What are they arguing for or about?
Purpose (Telos): What are the writers trying to accomplish in their essays? How do the strategies in the argument support that purpose?
Audience: To whom do the writers try to appeal? How do the writers try to connect with that audience?
Setting/Context (Kairos): What larger social/political/historical issues are they responding to?
Organization: How have the writers structured and presented the argument? How do the essays organization work toward the authors’ intended purposes?
Nods to the Opposition: How do the writers anticipate and address arguments that might be made against their positions? Do these nods (or lack of) strengthen or weaken the arguments?
Ethos: How do the writers present themselves to the reader? How does ethos work toward the authors’ intended purposes?
Logos: How do the writers appeal to the reader’s sense of logical reasoning? How does logos work toward the authors’ intended purposes?
Pathos: How do the writers appeal to the reader’s emotions, beliefs, and values? How does pathos work toward the authors’ intended purposes?
Tone: What are the writers’ attitudes towards the subject? Is it appropriate to the purposes/arguments? How?
Diction and Imagery: What are the effects of the writers’ word choices? Are they appropriate to the purposes/arguments? How?
Organizing Your Essay
Somewhere near the opening of your essay, identify the authors and articles under consideration and offer a summary of the articles that includes their theses. Be sure to clearly and fairly articulate the theses. Make clear what you think most significant about the rhetorical strategies the authors have used in the essays—this will be your thesis. In other words, what major elements of the essays will you compare in your essay? What elements of both essays do you think are noteworthy?
Since the purpose of your analysis is to analyze the writers’ rhetorical strategies, you should organize your essay by highlighting those strategies and choices to reflect your overall argument about the effect rhetorical strategies have on your evaluation of the author’s argument. Organize your analysis around the ideas presented in the articles you have selected to analyze and then focus on the strategies and choices used to convey those ideas
It is also appropriate to use your ending to make explicit your evaluation of the rhetorical effectiveness and of the articles in question and the ways in which these essays make meaningful contributions to the conversation surrounding higher education. Other strategies useful for ending this kind of essay include reiterating particular strengths (and/or weaknesses) of the essays or suggesting ways the essays might have been more effective. You might also express which essay you find presents a more effective argument than the other based .
Guidelines
Aim for a length of 900-1100 words, double-spaced, TNR 12-point font. Any paper that falls below 900 words will not be eligible for a B or an A grade.
Your essay should have an effective introduction that includes a clear thesis statement, as well as an effective conclusion that leaves the reader with a strong final impression of your argument.
Organize your essay clearly, and around topic sentences directly related to your thesis, so that it flows smoothly from one paragraph to the next.
Make sure your reader understands the difference between your words and ideas and those presented in the texts you choose to write about.
Use the MLA online handbook to help you properly cite, summarize, paraphrase, and quote the texts you choose to write about.
Format
Your essay should adhere to MLA manuscript format. Any texts or other sources that you quote, summarize, or paraphrase should be cited.
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