Write an 800-1000 word analytical essay over the authors rhetorical strategy in a text of your choice. Use MLA format and write with voice, but correctly. You may choose a text with both words and visuals. You may instead choose a text that is only words. You may not choose a text that is visuals without words, such as a photograph. The following list covers most of the choices for this assignment: There are other possible choices for this assignment, but if you move away from this list, get approval for your choice. I want to steer you toward the types of texts that provide the best opportunity for rhetorical analysis. For instance, some songs might be good choices, but most wouldnt have sufficiently complex lyrics that you could analyze thoroughly in a paper of this length. I also suggest avoiding ads that are frequently analyzed online. These include Budweiser, Nike, Apple and other popular products. Look for something thats not analyzed to death online so you have an opportunity for your own ideas. In this assignment, topic
selection is very important. Be clever and original in your choice. Your purpose in this assignment is to demonstrate your skill in rhetorical analysis. You want to demonstrate not only that you understand the text you choose, but that you can make perceptive inferences about the authors rhetorical choices in creating the text. You do this by identifying these choices and showing how they workand work togetherin the text. This is analysis. An author creates a text for a purpose. He or she has something to say to an audience. This message is delivered through Everything from the choice of a title to the physical characteristics of the way the image looks on the page, to the casting choices of a commercial is a rhetorical choice the author makes. As a reader, you can look closely at the elements of the text and make good inferences about both why and how the text was produced. (See The Tools of Rhetorical Analysis, Lesson 3.3) A rubric will be provided separately from this assignment. Well discuss this after you finish DB 3.1.