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Comprehensive Learning Assessment (CLA) 1

This comprehensive learning assessment is designed to provide you with experience in identifying and analyzing rhetorical devices used for persuasion.

First, watch all three videos listed below. Each makes various claims about workers outside of the United States.

TOPIC: Overseas Outsourcing

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https://youtu.be/xVuScVCF1Ws

Myth: Outsourcing is Bad

https://youtu.be/9qK-27LFPC4

Disadvantages of outsourcing.

https://youtu.be/_JEOxiLRYSc

Then using the course learning assessment guidelines detailed in this syllabus, write an essay, ensuring that you have done the following:

· Identify the rhetorical device(s)

· Explain how and whether the rhetorical device is effective in persuasion

· State why or why not it is a valid argument

· Analyze in detail the presentation for validity, logic, accuracy, misleading statements, credibility, etc.

· State your position on the topic of outsourcing

· Use additional citations, if necessary, to support your reasoning

Apply the concepts learned through the textbook readings and learning notes. Remember that critical thinking is based on objective information and premises (claims), not on opinions. While you may cite other rhetorical devices for your paper, the three YouTube presentations on the topic are provided to get you started.