Comparative rhetorical analysis

 Write a contrastive-comparative

rhetorical analysis, focusing on the rhetorical situations of a US

(e.g., The New York Times, Washington Post) and a national

newspaper from your home country, region, or other

nation/region of which you can read the language (e.g., UK, China,

Japan, Mexico). You will compare the same news story in the two

(or more) presses, using the concepts of rhetoric and rhetorical

situation to explain the similarities and differences in the stories’

presentations. You may also choose to compare other newspaper

elements such as comparing the two papers’ front pages, use of

photography, and so forth. When comparing texts, the

stories/headlines/graphics must be from the same day. Your

analysis should define and describe each paper’s rhetorical

situation and use of rhetoric, provide a summary of the stories’

content, provide enough background information to contextualize

the documents for your readers, and use the following key terms:

exigence, audience, and constraints.