For this assignment, you will write a rhetorical analysis, a thesis-driven essay in which you describe and evaluate a text’s rhetorical strategies/ tools. The text you will analyze for this assignment will be any political or persuasive speech. Usually students choose a political speech or a TED talk for this assignment. If you wish to choose any other speech, please see me with your thoughts. (https://www.ted.com/talks/quick-list).
In your analysis, you should identify and describe the rhetorical situation (genre, audience, purpose, stance, and context).
Use THREE Template from They Say, I Say, place these in bold and in italics.
Specifically, you should pay attention to:
the speaker’s primary argument
USE THREE THEY SAY I SAY TEMPLATES
secondary claims that support or extend the primary argument
types of evidence that the speaker uses to justify his or her claims
assumptions that the speaker makes about the topic or expects the audience to make about the topic
the organizational, mechanical, and rhetorical delivery of the argument and evidence.
Inclusion of at least 3 outside sources ((at minimum 3 outside sources 1 scholarly and 2 popular sources)
Because you are analyzing a video recording of the speech, you should also consider the speaker’s tone, gestures, and use of visuals.
Note that a successful rhetorical analysis does not offer an independent analysis or argument about the subject matter of a text; instead, it answers the following questions:
What rhetorical strategies does an author/ a text use to persuade its audience? Why?
To what effect?
Focus on Rhetorical Strategies; tone, appeal to logical fallacies, context, audience, metaphor, among others
Assume your audience for this essay is relying on you to properly analyze the speaker’s effectiveness, be sure to address aspects of strengths as well as weaknesses (or changes that could make the speech more effective).
Purpose and Outcomes The purpose of this assignment is to:
Break down and analyze the rhetorical moves made in a primary text, and then arrange and assemble those details in an essay explaining their overall purpose/effect for a specialized/academic audience.
Revise and edit multiple drafts to produce writing that is well organized, mechanically and grammatically sound, and mostly error free
Provide effective feedback on the writing of their peers, and both reflect upon and incorporate peer and instructor feedback through editing and revision.
I put an example of a template of they say i say.
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