Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Forum. Analyze the writer’s purposes, audience, genre, and style within a public document.

2. Write a rough draft of a Rhetorical Analysis of a Public Document.

3. Write a Peer Review of a classmate’s rough draft.

1. Begin by posting your Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft by the deadline to TWO places: to the Topic 2 Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Forum AND to the Topic 2 Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft assignment box.

2. Review the media piece: “Peer Review Using Rubrics” located in the Class Resources folder for information on effective peer reviews.

3. Next, review the draft of the person who posted his/her response directly above yours in the Peer Review forum. If your draft is the last posted, review the first draft posted. Then, complete the “Peer Review Rhetorical Analysis Worksheet” (see attachment).

4. You will then need to post your completed Peer Review Worksheet to TWO places: to the Topic 2 Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Forum for your peer to view, as well as to the Topic 2 Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review assignment box, so the instructor can grade your work.

5. Attach the file with your completed Peer Review Worksheet to the Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Forum as a “reply” to the initial post of your peer’s first draft.

6. Please note that to participate in the peer review process you must post your essay by 11:59 pm (AZ time) on Wednesday of Topic 2.

Rubrics Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Forum

What is the rhetorical situation?

· What occasion gives rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion?

· What is the historical occasion that would give rise to the composition of this text?

Who is the author/speaker?

· How does he or she establish ethos (personal credibility)?

· Does he/she come across as knowledgeable? fair?

· Does the speaker’s reputation convey a certain authority?

What is his/her intention in speaking?

· To attack or defend?

· To exhort or dissuade from certain action?

· To praise or blame?

· To teach, to delight, or to persuade?

Who make up the audience?

· Who is the intended audience?

· What values does the audience hold that the author or speaker appeals to?

· Who have been or might be secondary audiences?

· If this is a work of fiction, what is the nature of the audience within the fiction?

What is the content of the message?

· Can you summarize the main idea?

· What are the principal lines of reasoning or kinds of arguments used?

· What topics of invention are employed?

· How does the author or speaker appeal to reason? to emotion?

What is the form in which it is conveyed?

· What is the structure of the communication; how is it arranged?

· What oral or literary genre is it following?

· What figures of speech (schemes and tropes) are used?

· What kind of style and tone is used and for what purpose?

How do form and content correspond?

· Does the form complement the content?

· What effect could the form have, and does this aid or hinder the author’s intention?

Does the message/speech/text succeed in fulfilling the author’s or speaker’s intentions?

· For whom?

· Does the author/speaker effectively fit his/her message to the circumstances, times, and audience?

· Can you identify the responses of historical or contemporary audiences?

What does the nature of the communication reveal about the culture that produced it?

· What kinds of values or customs would the people have that would produce this?

· How do the allusions, historical references, or kinds of words used place this in a certain time and location?