English 1301 day 5

1. English 1301 day 5 Section 4&5

2. Because rhetorical choices are deployed to influence the reader, it is necessary to identify the reader. • Because rhetorical choices are used to convincingly argue about something, it is also necessary to identify what the purpose is. • Thus, your discussion must correspond with your understanding of the intended reader and the purpose. • St. Martin’s Handbook: “Writer’s table” in 7b, is useful to see how to analyze. Also 8d,9e,f,g have lists of appeals you can look for in an article. How to discuss rhetorical choices

3. Questions you need to ask • How does a rhetorical choice influence the reader? • What purpose does the author seem to have in making such a choice? Note: When you discuss a rhetorical choice ALWAYS bring an example from the article. How to discuss rhetorical choices 2

4. What claim is an authormaking about the topic? • What good reasons support the claim? • Whatbackup evidence can you find for the claim? • In what ways does the authorqualifyhis/her claim? • What valid underlying assumptions support the reasons for the claim? Approaching rhetorically

5. Humor • Invective language • Juxtaposition • Repetition • Satire • References (history, culture, authority, etc) Rhetorical choices

6. Oxymoron • Euphemism • Litotes • Moral reasoning Rhetorical choices

7. Don’t get caught up with the content. You’re not arguing whether the article is right or wrong; rather how an author presents his/her idea. • Take an example of our previous discussion about Obama That I Used to Know, we did not discuss whether the political statement made in the film is right or wrong, agreeable or disagreeable. • The content of an article (or in the case of Obama That I Used to Know, political statement) is NOT what you analyze. Writing a rhetorical analysis paper

8. When you quote something, in-text citation comes at the end of the sentence. • If you introduce author’s name in the sentence, you can omit putting the author’s name in in-text citation. Just put the page number. • Use proper verbs when you introduce quotes. Does he “argue”? Or does he just “state”? What does he try to do with a phrase/sentence you quote? See St. Martin’s Handbook’s 13-b “Working with Quotation” for examples. Mla citation (quoting)

9. Now, what are purposes and audiences of three articles (Jaschik, Budiansky, and Rosenberg)??

10. Examples of ba3

11. Purpose: To demonstrate your ability to identify specific rhetorical choices made by a writer • Description: The major essay in this course is a rhetorical analysis. In order to write a rhetorical analysis, one of the first things you will need to do is identify some of the rhetorical choices made by the writer that you can examine in your analysis.  Remember, a rhetorical analysis focuses on how a writer makes meaning. A rhetorical analysis looks at the devices or tools that a writer uses to persuade, inform, and/or entertain his or her audience.  A writer, for instance, may choose to use technical jargon in a text. In a rhetorical analysis, you would examine the use of and effectiveness of that choice to use jargon.  However, to determine the effectiveness of the writer’s choices, you must first determine what the writer’s purpose is and who the writer’s audience is. • For this brief assignment, using the text you will analyze for your Draft 1.1, please do the following: • ·Identify the audience and purpose of the piece. Be as specific as possible and support your identification with a brief explanation (100-200 words). • ·  Identify five rhetorical choices made by the author and describe how each choice relates to the intended audience and purpose. (Is the rhetorical choice effective for the intended audience? How does the rhetorical choice support the purpose of the text?) Your description of each rhetorical choice should be the length of one paragraph. You can include an example from the text to support your identification (i.e. direct quote).  Ba3