Friday, October 7, 2011

Blog Post #7: Assessing your Essay Author's Rhetorical Situation

This blog entry is designed to help you assess the Rhetorical Situation of the author and essay you choose to work with for Paper #2.

Remember that since this is the first step of completing a Rhetorical Analysis, this is the work that you do initially and later base the various points of your analysis on.  And like we discussed in class, this is the information that gives a context to your analysis, your paper overall, and thus, it should be what your Intro Paragraph discusses. 

So, view this blog entry as a way to get that Intro Paragraph drafted.  In that respect, the comments from your peers will be kind of like a bonus Peer Review, also. 

For this blog entry, pull out your Rhetorical Situation Memo Outline, pull out the article you choose from the reader (Delpit, Anzaldua, or King) and work out the Rhetorical Situation that you feel the author is working from.  Create THEIR Rhetorical Situation and draft it into paragraph form, as you did for the ones you turned in with your draft.  Complete all the aspects of the Memo that are on the Outline.

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