Analyzing a Rhetorical Analysis.

             
          In assignment 2 we will be finding an article that is interesting to us and then analyze the way that writer writes and uses rhetoric to gain a better understanding of what the author is trying to say. We will be picking apart the article and instead of being the writer, we will actually be like the teacher for this assignment. We will be analyzing anything interesting to us including, logos, pathos, ethos, content-lexical ties, transitions, paragraphing, and sentence structure. We will be dividing a whole into parts to understand how an act of speaking or writing conveys meaning. We will have to summarize what the author is saying in our words to our audience and directly quoting the most important or representative claims first so that audience will understand our analysis. We will need to state our conclusion about the overall quality or effectiveness of the argument and if it convinced us and why or why not. If we find that the article used logos poorly, then we should summarize or quote some evidence of poor logos and explain why it is so poor.  We can research our author’s background or the article’s questionable claims to discover more information that can help analyze its rhetoric. We can also research what else has been said or written on the topic we choose.