Essay 2: Rhetorical Analysis Assignment
This essay builds on your summary skills by asking you to analyze rhetorical features of
the same text you summarized. You will explain to your readers the rhetorical strategies
the text uses and hypothesize why the text uses those strategies, given its author(s),
audience(s), purpose(s), and context. You do not have to agree with the source to
analyze its rhetorical strategies. Your goal is to convince your reader to agree with your
evaluation of how effective and persuasive the text is.
3 pages
MLA Format
Assignment Goals:
? Understand the relationship between texts and contexts in conveying meaning
? Learn to analyze the effectiveness of rhetorical choices
? Consider how diverse authors and audiences use and respond to different
rhetorical strategies
? Make an argument using evidence and reasoning