Choose one scholarly, peer reviewed article or one article from a professional or trade organization in your field. The article should be an article that your are considering using for your annotated bibliography later in the semester. The article might be the same article you chose for the summary activity that will be completed this week.

3.1 Rhetorical reading
Choose one scholarly, peer reviewed article or one article from a professional or trade organization in your field. The article should be an article that your are considering using for your annotated bibliography later in the semester. The article might be the same article you chose for the summary activity that will be completed this week.
Based on the reading you completed this week about rhetorical reading, answer the following questions:
What is the exigence of the article? How do you know? Paste the section you think provides the clearest example of exigence.
Who is the audience for the article? How do you know?
What are some of the constraints of the argument the article makes? Provide specific examples of how the disciplinary context, publication outlet, structure of the article, etc., constrain and shape the argument the author makes.
Using the rhetorical triangle, briefly show how the argument is framed within appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos. Provide a specific example within the text to show the type of appeal the article makes to the reader.

3.2 Summaries
Choose one scholarly, peer reviewed article or one article from a professional or trade organization in your field. The article should be an article that your are considering using for your annotated bibliography later in the semester.
First, post a summary of the article you have selected.
Second, based on your posting and on the reading you completed this week, answer the following questions:
How did you decide what to exclude and what to include in the summary? What dod you leave out? Why?
What tone and purpose did you choose was most appropriate for the summary?
What changes would you make if you decide to use this article in the annotated bibliography (instructions to the annotated bibliography may be found in the Course Documents folder)?
Third, comment on another students post. Are you able to determine the purpose, tone, and context of the summary? Why or why not?

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