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*Choose ONE. Analyze the rhetorical appeals used by the author to convey his or her main argument. In developing your analysis, consider how the rhetoric works; how ideas are argued and presented; and how the strategy is working to help the writer achieve his or her purpose. Use up to 3 quotes for text evidence.
*Instructions:
Define the main point of the text and the major steps the author takes to get to the conclusion.
Analyze the assumptions the author makes about the audience. What words or phrases indicate these assumptions?
Describe in detail the kinds of evidence the writer uses, how effective you find it, and why.
How does the author use the three rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos, pathos? (See below.) Which is most effective? Why?
Where, how, and how effectively does the author address the counter arguments?
What kind of organizational structure does the author use? Is the main argument stated early on? In the middle? At the end? What does this tell you about the rest of the text?
Who is the intended or perceived audience? How does the writing style in the text make the piece more appealing to the intended or perceived audience?
Does the author establish herself as an expert on the subject of the text? If so, how?
What is the syntax/sentence structure like in the text? Does the writer use fragments or run-ons? Declarative? Imperative? Interrogative? Exclamatory? Are they simple? Compound? Complex? Compound-complex? Short? Long? Loose? Periodic? Balanced? Parallel? Are there any patterns? Can you make any connections between the patterns and the writers’ purpose?
Is there anything unusual in the writer’s use of punctuation? What punctuation or other techniques of emphasis (italics, capitals, underlining, ellipses, parentheses) does the writer use? Is punctuation over- or under used? Which marks does the writer use when, and for what effects? Dashes to create a hasty breathlessness? Semi-colons for balance or contrast?
Be certain to support whatever claims you make with specific evidence from the text, quoting specific passages from the text and explaining how the exact language in the quotation shows what you claim it shows.
