WHAT: The aim of your rhetorical analysis is to share with your intended audience your
interpretation of the text’s important rhetorical features. In other words, rather than focusing
your attention on critiquing and evaluating the text, your task is to examine how the text is
rhetorically designed in order to appeal to its intended audience. You will, of course, need to
contextualize and summarize the text; however, you’ll focus mostly on analyzing what the text
is doing, and why.
HOW: You’ll assert your interpretation (thesis), and you’ll support your points using evidence
in the form of examples and short quotations from the text. You are encouraged to personalize
the delivery of your essay. Thus, you decide the order, tone, style, and language you’ll craft in
order to best reach your audience. You’re welcome to draw on your “native,” “home,” or
“other” languages, literacies, and ways of being as you so choose.
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