Steps
History
Essay
Analyzing the Artifact
Selecting an Artifact
100
The first step
What is selecting an artifact
100
specialist in symbol-systems and symbolic action
What is Kenneth Burke
100
First component to writing the essay
What is introduction
100
There are this many basic steps to analyzing the artifact
What is three
100
These are appropriate to apply the cluster method
What is discursive and nondiscursive
200
The second step
What is analyzing the artifact
200
the meanings that key symbols have for a rhetor are discovered by charting the symbols that cluster around those key symbols
What is cluster criticism
200
Second component to writing the essay
What is description of artifact and context
200
This is the first step in analyzing the artifact
What is identifying key terms
200
The artifact must be
What is long and complex
300
The third step
What is formulating the research question
300
He was this centuries specialist in symbol-systems and symbolic action
What is 20th century
300
Third component to writing the essay
What is description of method of criticism
300
This is the second step in analyzing the artifact
What is charting the clusters
300
Rhetor must identify these things
What is key terms
400
The forth step
What is writing the essay
400
Forth component to writing the essay
What is report of findings of the analysis
400
This is the third step in analyzing the artifact
What is discovering an explanation for the artifact
500
Fifth component to writing the essay
What is discussion of contribution the analysis makes to rhetorical theory
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