COMPARATIVE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PROJECT
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “Letter to My Son.”
King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther. “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.”
Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience.
X, Malcolm. “The Ballot or the Bullet.”
Explain how Rhetorical analysis is the process of evaluating elements of a text and determining how those elements impact the success or failure of that argument.
For this assignment, you will complete this component using the pieces listed above:
Typed essay with necessary transitions/coherence (may submit on Google Docs)
How To Do This
For this analysis, I suggest focusing a few of the following rhetorical choices:
Purpose (combine with other RD)
Diction
Appeals and imagery
Use of allusions, figurative language
Tone
There are several organizational strategies that could work for this assignment, but broadly speaking you can choose to organize by writing piece or by rhetorical feature. I am providing a template which uses the piece-by-piece organization. If you desire to use the other strategy, let me know, and I will help you find an example online.
Your quotes and specific paraphrases, as well as the Works Cited Page, should adhere to MLA citation style, as well as the expectations of Standard Written English. Double check for punctuation errors, fragments and run-on sentences.
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