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English 120 Homework Assignment

You will submit your Final Rifkin 2-Paragraph Writing Assignment at the beginning of class on Thursday, March 15.

To class on Tuesday, you will bring a typed document of your carefully revised, introductory paragraph AND a draft of your rhetorical analysis body paragraph, which is required to focus on assigned strategy noted on this document. You will also take an exam to demonstrate your understanding of key concepts.

What is below:

+ the ASSIGNED STRATEGY on which your final Rifkin Assignment is REQUIRED to focus.

+ essential information about your final writing assignment

+ an exceptionally helpful prewriting process that I encourage you to engage in

The assigned persuasive strategy is: Rifkin tries to create the impression that the expansion of animal rights is a growing global movement.

Another way of saying this is “he notes that others around the world have already begun to treat animals more humanely.”) You can use this or the previous language.

· Your Audience: You are writing to an intelligent person who has read Rifkin’s ”A Change of Heart About Animals” AND understands that his main argument is that “We should treat animals more humanely and expand animal rights.” Your reader is less familiar with rhetoric and has not thought about how Rifkin’s text is trying to work rhetorically.

· Your Purpose: Explain how Rifkin tries to increase the likelihood readers will accept his main argument by using the following persuasive strategy: he tries to create the impression that extending animal rights is a growing global movement (or—he notes that others around the world are already expanding empathy and rights to animals).

· Your Assignment’s Form: This “paper” will take the form of just two paragraphs -- an introductory paragraph (with an introduction that leads into a clear thesis statement which prepares your reader for what is to come – a rhetorical analysis), an effective topic sentence for the body paragraph, and a well-developed explanation in that paragraph how that aspect of the text works rhetorically to help his readers accept his argument.

· ALSO, please double space your assignment and type it in Times News Romans 12 pt font

· Rifkin’s Main Argument: We should extend empathy and rights to animals

· Your Assigned Persuasive Strategy / What you will argue Rifkin does in his text to increase the likelihood readers will accept his main argument: he tries to create the impression that extending animal rights is a growing global movement (or—he notes that others around the world are already expanding empathy and rights to animals)

Your body paragraph’s topic sentence will surely be something like or exactly: One of Rifkin’s persuasive strategies involves his efforts to create the impression that others around the world are already expanding animal rights. This establishes your paragraph’s purpose and raise to important questions which could focus your prewriting work. It might be a good idea to USE THIS ACTUAL TOPIC SENTENCE .

1. One question the topic sentence generates in readers: “Really? He does?”

What specifically does Rifkin do in his text that shows he tries to create the impression that the expansion of animal rights is a growing global movement?

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This brief reminder—along with an effective topic sentence – would lay a solid foundation on which your core argument about how it is a strategy can build.

2. After learning the purpose of your paragraph AND being reminded that he actually does try to create this impression, your reader will want to know WHY ARE YOU CALLING IT A STRATEGY. Explore the following questions to discover and develop your argument as to how and why you are calling it a strategy to the fullest extent possible:

Questions to help discover/develop your argument related to the RESISTANCE he may be trying to remove

· What resistance might Rifkin have been anticipating and trying to remove with this rhetorical strategy?

· Why (is it reasonable that he) might he anticipate this resistance? what is it about readers or this specific argument –to treat animals more humanely – that helps to explain why he made this particular choice?

· Why/How would that resistance lead to a rejection of Rifkin’s main argument?

· What if Rifkin didn’t make this choice? If this aspect of the text was not present, might a reader reject his argument, etc.)? why may Rifkin have felt the need to make that choice, given his audience and purpose?

Questions to help discover/develop your argument related to the INTENDED EFFECT he may be hoping the strategy will have on his readers

· How does the strategy make it more likely readers will accept his main argument?

· How might the strategy remove or lessen the resistance?

· What is Rifkin’s intended or desired effect of the strategy? How might Rifkin been hoping the strategy would affect his readers?

· What psychological or thought process might Rifkin have hoped his strategy would trigger in his readers toward the acceptance of his main argument?

The Assigned Persuasive/Rhetorical Strategy

Essential Information Regarding your final 2 ¶ Writing Assignment

Specific Tips AND Prewriting exercises to consider doing before drafting YOUR 2nd PARAGRAPH where you develop your argument

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