Rhetorical Analysis Pre

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This assignment requires you to identify and analyze the audience, purpose, and rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) of a persuasive subject.

ENG-105 Topic 1 Rhetorical Analysis Pre-writing (ONL)

In the rhetorical analysis assignment due in Topic 2, the requirements are to demonstrate an understanding that every text is created for a unique situation and audience and to analyze the decisions made by the author of the text. This includes the persuasive appeals ethos, pathos, and logos.

Aristotle believed that speakers and writers used these three persuasive appeals. Logos is an appeal to the audience’s powers of reason or logic. Pathos is an appeal to emotions or senses. Ethos is the personal appeal, charisma, or credibility of the speaker or writer. These three appeals are known as the rhetorical triangle because all three sides work together to make a text effective or not.

Choose a persuasive subject from the
ENG-105 Topic 2 Rhetorical Analysis Topic List. This is the subject that you will use in the Rhetorical Analysis essay assignments in Topics 1-3.

Review Chapters 6, 7, and 8 in the class text (
Writing with Purpose). Based on your chosen subject for the Rhetorical Analysis essay, respond to the following prompts using complete sentences (Provide intext citations for all summarized, paraphrased, and quoted material):

Audience and Purpose

Medium/time and place:

How is your chosen persuasive subject presented (Image, speech, text) and delivered (internet video, newspaper, online journal, T.V. advertisement). When was the subject originally created and/or presented?

______________________________________________________

Audience: (
who is the author trying to persuade/who would benefit most?)

Provide a specific example of what led you to determine this target audience:

______________________________________________________ (in-text citation
).

Purpose:

What are they persuading the audience to believe or do and why? ____________________________________________________________

Provide a specific example of what led you to determine this purpose:

______________________________________________________ (in-text citation
).

Appeals

Ethos

Brief definition of ethos: _____________________________________ (in-text citation).

Provide at least one example from your subject showing the use of ethos.

1. _____________________________________________ (in-text citation).

2. (optional)_____________________________________________ (in-text citation).

Your observations regarding whether the use of ethos is effective for their audience. _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(in-text citation).

Pathos

Brief definition of pathos: _____________________________________(in-text citation).

Provide at least one example from your subject showing the use of pathos.

1. _____________________________________________ (in-text citation).
2. (optional)_____________________________________________ (in-text citation).

Your observations regarding whether the use of pathos is effective for their audience. _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(in-text citation).

Logos

Brief definition of logos: ____________________________________________________________(in-text citation).

Specific example from your subject showing the use of logos on the website logos:

1. _____________________________________________ (in-text citation).

2. (optional) _____________________________________________ (in-text citation).

Your observations regarding whether the use of logos is effective for their audience. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(in-text citation).

Conclusions

Overall conclusions you have drawn about how well the author uses the appeals to persuade its audience for its purpose (answer in 75-100 words):

Create a reference page for the sources you cited for your examples (List alphabetically)

References

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