an essay of 1,000 words analyze how an author uses ethos, pathos, and logos in a newspaper editorial.( ETHOS, PATHOS, AND LOGOS info in the next attachment )

In this essay you will be able to focus on your major. Find a newspaper editorial or op-ed piece, written within the last two years, on a topic that interests you and is related to your major in one of the following newspapers the:

New York Times, (http://www.nytimes.com/)

Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/public/us)

Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/)

Chicago Sun-Times, (http://www.suntimes.com/index.html)

Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/)

Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/)

NO OUTSIDE SOURCES BUT IN THESE WEBSITE ONLY

The editorial or op-ed piece needs to be long enough for you analyze how the writer uses ethos, logos, and pathos in her or his editorial.  Please note that you may not use an article for this assignment.  Newspaper articles and editorials (or op-ed pieces) are very different from one another.  You will find editorials and op-ed pieces in the opinion section of a newspaper.  If you are unfamiliar with this type of reading allow yourself ample time to locate this section of the paper and read through several editorials and op-eds so that you can get a sense of the specific aspects of this genre, which often tends to favor one side of an argument and rely heavily on one or more of the rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos.  You may find that some of the editorials and op-eds make little use of one of the rhetorical appeals.  Please do not ask for an exception because you have found the “perfect article.” This assignment has been designed around the genre of editorials and op-eds.  Failing to follow assignment may result in lower-grades and failing an assignment.

Although you will not be writing the paper this week, I want you to know what the paper assignment will be so that you can read and do pre-writing activities that will support your writing of this essay.

Second writing assignment:

In an essay of 1,000 words analyze how an author uses ethos, pathos, and logos in a newspaper editorial. Your essay is not about whether you agree or disagree with the author, although you will address this at the very end of your essay, but instead how the author creates her or his argument. Some editorials and op-eds are written anonymously which can cause problems for you as a writer. I suggest avoiding such pieces. Your analysis must demonstrate your ability to use ethos, logos and pathos in the following ways: IN PDF ATTACHMENT PLEAR READ IT -- ability to identify ethos, logos and pathos in an argument -- ability to evaluate the effectiveness of an author’s use of the rhetorical triangle (page 47 of our class text)

After you have analyzed the author’s use of ethos, logos and pathos you will explain whether you agree or disagree with the author. Your conclusion should answer the question “so what.”< /span>

Requirements:

Your essay must be 1,000 words in length and follow MLA or APA formatting requirements, which includes being double-spaced. Please reference our course syllabus for permissible fonts. Please note that some of the formatting will be lost when you post your work for your peer review (which will not be in week 6), but you should ensure that you adhere to all the formatting requirements and review your final draft to ensure that you have used either MLA or APA formatting correctly.

- Introduction

In your paper you will need to create an introduction that informs and engages your reader while also briefly summarizing the editorial, including its main argument, and offering your own thesis. The Purdue Owl has some useful suggestions about creating effective introductions:

Introduction

The introduction is the broad beginning of the paper that answers three important questions:

 

1. What is this?

2. Why am I reading it?

3. What do you want me to do?

You should answer these questions by doing the following:

1. Set the context – provide general information about the main idea, explaining the situation so the reader can make sense of the topic and the claims you make and support

2. State why the main idea is important – tell the reader why s/he should care and keep reading. Your goal is to create a compelling, clear, and convincing essay people will want to read and act upon

3. State your thesis/claim – compose a sentence or two stating the position you will support with logos (sound reasoning: induction, deduction), pathos (balanced emotional appeal), and ethos (author credibility). <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/724/01/>

Please do not start off with your summary.  Think of how you can invite your reader to engage with the topic first—before you introduce the editorial and your thesis.

-Thesis

Your thesis needs to claim whether or not the editorial effectively uses ethos, pathos, and logos to make an argument.  Please remember that your thesis needs to be debatable and will benefit from having a “because” clause. Please review materials form the previous weeks for strategies to use when creating an effective thesis.  You may also wish to review our discussion about theses in 3c in the Discussion Board section of class and in week three of the course materials section of our class. This time you will not be posting a provisional thesis on which I will be giving feedback.

- Here are some useful strategies for writing an effective conclusion; they come from Literacy education Online:

- Strategies for Writing a Conclusion

Conclusions are often the most difficult part of an essay to write, and many writers feel that they have nothing left to say after having written the paper. A writer needs to keep in mind that the conclusion is often what a reader remembers best. Your conclusion should be the best part of your paper.

A conclusion should

* stress the importance of the thesis statement,

* give the essay a sense of completeness, and

* leave a final impression on the reader.

Suggestions

* Answer the question "So What?"

Show your readers why this paper was important. Show them that your paper was meaningful and useful.

* Synthesize, don't summarize

Don't simply repeat things that were in your paper. They have read it. Show them how the points you made and the support and examples you used were not random, but fit together.

* Redirect your readers

Give your reader something to think about, perhaps a way to use your paper in the "real" world. If your introduction went from general to specific, make your conclusion go from specific to general. Think globally.

* Create a new meaning

You don't have to give new information to create a new meaning. By demonstrating how your ideas work together, you can create a new picture. Often the sum of the paper is worth more than its parts.

< http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html>

- Include a Works Cited or References page- Use only editorials from the approved newspapers mentioned in week 6 and editorials that were written within the last two years.

- You will need to submit your final version of your essay to Turnitin and obtain a Turnitin Report for this essay.  I will go over this in a few weeks.

For this assigment you need to do the following:

- locate the editorial you wish to use (I suggest printing it and annotating it or annotating it in your Word program.)

- summarize, briefly, the editorial including its main argument (you will use this as part of your introduction, but please first introduce your reader to the topic of your essay before moving into talking about the particular article and its argument.)

- create a thesis for your second essay (WP2)

Due date is on Friday May 9, 14