Rhetorical Analysis
The rhetorical situation (SPACE CAT) consists of the following aspects.
What is context, speaker, audience, purpose, subject, and tone.
During the synthesis essay, we will have this many sources.
What is 7?
The argument questions has this number of sources.
What is none.
You have this long for the entire exam.
What is 3 hours and 15 minutes?
Revise for control:
In today's society, the idea of a truism is quite important
In today's society, the idea of a truism is quite important.
When creating a rhetorical analysis, these 2 aspects are what we NEED to be writing about and analyzing.
What is the purpose and the rhetorical choices?
This aspect of each prompt is pivotal to thinking through each sources' rhetorical situation.
What is the context?
The argument questions is based solely on this.
We will have this before the exam starting at 6:45 in the writer's room.
Breakfast!
Revise for control:
By considering Plath's use of imagery the audience can almost feel her sense of dread.
By considering Plath's use of imagery, the audience can almost feel her sense of dread.
When creating a rhetorical analysis, your thesis statement must be inclusive of this basic conjunction. This conjunction ensures a line of reasoning.
What is "because"?
Consider these instructions:
Write an essay that synthesizes materials from at least three of the sources and develops your position on the place, if any, of handwriting in today's schools.
A writer could create this type of stance as arguable under certain conditions.
What is to qualify?
Consider the following prompt:
Many people spend long hours trying to achieve perfection in their personal or professional lives. Similarly, people often demand perfection from others, creating expectations that may be challenging to live up to. In contrast, some people think perfection is not attainable or desireable.
Write an essay that argues your position on the value of striving for perfection.
Respond with 3 examples of perfectionism is WORTH striving for.
Scientific experimentations = Tesla, Einstein, Edison
Space Exploration = Apollo missions
Political careers = Biden, Obama, Lincoln
You will need both of these to complete your exam.
A pen and a pencil.
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Sources B and D both work together to create one unifying idea, resistance.
Sources B and D both work together to create one unifying idea: resistance.
Consider this quote from Claudia Johnson, former first lady of the United States, where she discusses the first anniversary of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial:
Let us today earnestly resolve to build the true foundation for Eleanor Roosevelt’s memory—to pluck out prejudice from our lives, to remove fear and hate where it exists, and to create a world unafraid to work out its destiny in peace.
This rhetorical choice works to unite her audience.
What is inclusive pronouns like "us"?
Consider these instructions:
Write an essay that synthesizes materials from at least three of the sources and develops your position on the place, if any, of handwriting in today's schools.
This would be an arguable thesis statement for this prompt (no sources necessary).
Student response.
Consider the following prompt:
Many people spend long hours trying to achieve perfection in their personal or professional lives. Similarly, people often demand perfection from others, creating expectations that may be challenging to live up to. In contrast, some people think perfection is not attainable or desirable.
Write an essay that argues your position on the value of striving for perfection.
Respond with 1 example of perfectionism is NOT WORTH striving for.
Stress of perfectionism = Prince Harry, Jacinda Arden, any athlete who retired from a sport
Who are Reny, Cording, Madson, Arzoumanian?
Revise for control:
The author who was also a Nobel prize winner continued to carry their vision throughout their later work.
The author, who was also a Nobel prize winner, continued to carry their vision throughout their later work.
Consider this speech given by President Obama at US Senator Ted Kennedy's funeral:
Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic Party; and the lion of the U.S. Senate—a man whose name graces nearly one thousand laws, and who penned more than three hundred himself.
Through the use of an em-dash, Obama is able to to do this while eulogizing Senator Kennedy.
What is to further define his impact on senate?
This is Ms. Reny's maiden name (her last name before she got married).
Landeo
Consider the following prompt and create a thesis for it.
Colin Powell, a 4 star general and former United States secretary of state, wrote in his 1995 autobiography: "We do not have the luxury of collecting information indefinitely. At some point, before we can have every possible fact in hand, we have to decide. They key is not to make quick decisions, but to make timely decisions."
Write an essay that argues your position on the extent to which Powell's claim about making decision is valid.
Powell's claims regarding making a timely decision are not only valid, but necessary to creating a sustainable democracy because failure to do so could result in decisions that do not take the public into consideration.
We are all striving for this score.
What is a 6?
Revise for control. Challenge: consider active > passive verbs!
Although the sources may lead some to believe that environmentalism is a tricky subject it is more evident that it's complexities are because it is so important
Although the sources may lead some to believe that environmentalism tricks the public, it's complexities are because of it's important.