rhetorical analysis

The second portion of this assignment is the rhetorical analysis. In the rhetorical analysis, you will explain how you used the five features to make the same exact place seem so very positive in one paragraph and yet so negative in the second paragraph.

The second portion of this assignment is a two step process.

1.) Review your two paragraphs noting each of the places you used any of the tools in the Writer’s Toolbox. Try to find at least two examples of each of the tools from the Writer’s Toolbox employed in each descriptions (except for tell sentences and direct statements of meaning, which you should have limited to only one per paragraph). If you can’t find two examples of the other features in each of your descriptions, you’ll probably want to revise your initial description, adding more of those features.

2.) Write your rhetorical analysis, devoting at least one paragraph to each of the tools in the Writer’s Toolbox. You will probably want to begin each paragraph of the rhetorical analysis with a general claim. I used a great deal of word choice in each of my two descriptions. Then you’ll want to follow that claim with examples. For instance, in my positive paragraph, I described the sun as gleaming, which implies that the light was pleasantly bright. However, in my negative paragraph, I described the sun as glaring, implying that the light was too bright, and in fact painful to look at.

Rhetorical Analysis
Order Description
From previous assignments: Rhetorical Analysis you identified different rhetorical devices and strategies employed by authors in 3 different types of sources – a journal article, an online source and a newspaper article. Using this assignment compose a new paragraph in the style of an actual non-academic publication of your choice. Use one of the non-academic publications that were selected in the Rhetorical Analysis assignment.
Your new paragraph will be based on the ideas in your paragraph for the paragraph composition and the paragraph revision assignment (will upload) and will incorporate the research used in those paragraphs.

Include:
-an outline of your new rhetorical situation and context
-The new paragraph
-a brief rhetorical analysis of the selected publication
-a brief discussion of your rhetorical decisions, in light of your new rhetorical situation and context (make comparisons to Paragraph composition/paragraph revision assignments where appropriate)
-Reflection from the point of view of yourself as an expert writer to your novice writer self by considering what you have learnt and how you have evolved as a writer.
-introduction, discussion and conclusion

When describing publication consider:
-background
-readership
-authors
-purpose
-tone and style etc