I envision a foundational phase, with articles that teach and illustrate the theory and process of rhetorical analysis, followed by a rich foray into
the rhetorical analysis of legislation, judicial decisions, pleadings, contracts, and oral argument, to name a few.
And to demonstrate the potential of adding visuals to a written document, Mike «perform [s]
a rhetorical analysis of the verbal topics of invention and tropes of style in the text» of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s «Letter from Birmingham Jail.»
The culminating activity of this unit is a persuasive
rhetorical analysis of a print ad.
Not exact matches
Wuellner's stated goal is to examine «the need for
rhetorical analysis not only
of texts but also
of the practices
of reading texts.»
They also claim that the
rhetorical perspective provides a way to «balance and integrate» the competing concerns
of critical
analysis and persuasive religious reading.
If Nadler is less than completely helpful as a guide to Spinoza's
rhetorical strategy, he provides a very useful
analysis of Spinoza's relationship to subsequent tendencies in the Jewish world with which his name is often identified.
This formula is perhaps better suited to
rhetorical use in public discourse than for rigorous intellectual
analysis (where the battle to vindicate natural law should continue), but «the received moral wisdom
of the American people» is far from being an expression
of empty propaganda.
To see it as the director's response to his detractors is simplistic, to be sure, and given that other filmmakers» marches to
rhetorical cavalries (Todd Solondz's Storytelling, Neil LaBute's The Shape
of Things) are so obviously band - aids applied to sucking chest wounds, it's not a flattering
analysis, either.
Our study
of rhetoric usually lasts about three weeks, from the introduction
of the
rhetorical appeals through the writing and revision
of the
analysis paper, but it can be contracted or expanded to fit different class schedules and student interest.
But the most wonderful discovery was that studying this poem made
rhetorical analysis finally click for many
of my students.
Poetry is not a given in AP Language and Composition — in fact, some teachers use only nonfiction texts because a major focus
of the class is
rhetorical analysis.
Exploring the rhetoric in poetry gives students a bite - sized opportunity to practice
rhetorical analysis, often in the span
of one class period.
After completing the first methods class, before teacher candidates entered any classrooms other than through the cyber-conferencing experience, 90 %
of the respondents said they employed the following technology - enhanced methods in their lessons: word processing;
rhetorical, digital text
analysis; digital commentary; Internet research; found and concrete poem creation generated through digital sources; image collage to analyze text; online chat; discussion boards; PowerPoint presentation; word processing and graphic organizers to facilitate multistage writing workshop; email; and multimedia projects using digital camera and video for some type
of analysis.
Dr. Kinsella details cross-curricular writing instruction imperatives for educators serving English learners and striving readers, including a focused yet accessible analytic rubric for each assignment, targeted lessons on language and
rhetorical devices for specific writing types, explicit
analysis of an appropriate writing model, and brief, frequent doses
of interactive, teacher - meditated writing practice to build critical competencies for longer, independent assignments.
A special place among the various forms
of independent work is the
rhetorical analysis essay writing.
Unless you can show by statistical
analysis or by replication that those two tests
of relative error rates are in error, bringing up short lists
of supposed errors is mere cherry picking, and
rhetorical rather than scientific criticism.
Through the twin lenses
of scientific scrutiny and
rhetorical analysis, Mike Hulme helps us to see just why we disagree about climate change and what we can do about it.
Professor Sword notes that the test uses «algorithms based on more than 1,000 writing samples — a process
of informed evaluation based on extensive reading,
rhetorical analysis, intuition, and, yes, a dollop
of subjectivity.»
The bland, repetitive, and often formulaic cadences
of legal writing in general, and judicial writing in particular, can be explained in large part by a commitment to the neutral and consistent application
of the law... [T] he effort to demonstrate that similar cases are being treated alike often finds its
rhetorical manifestation in a penchant for
analyses that have a déja lu quality — usually because the words have been read before.
13 See, e.g., LWI's Monograph Series (with issues devoted to teaching legal
analysis and writing to first - year and upper - class students, the
rhetorical theory that informs the teaching and creation
of legal writing, and moot court programs and oral advocacy), https://www.lwionline.org/publications/monograph-series.
The post also uses a
rhetorical question to advance the
analysis and a pull quote (i.e. a quote set off from the rest
of the text, in this case with the graphic design
of large quotation marks) from the Copyright Act.
This section uses three
rhetorical questions to transition into the
analysis of how experts «dumb down» copyright law and lead to misunderstandings.