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visual_organizer_essay_3.docxVISUAL ORGANIZER FOR RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
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Rhetor/ Speaker Who is the author? What can you figure out about the author’s ideology that might provide useful context for analyzing the text? |
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Audience Who is this author’s intended audience? How do you know? |
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Situation What is going on that motivated this author to write? |
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Purpose What is this author trying to get the audience to do/think/feel? |
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Genre What kind of text is this? Why might that matter in terms of how the author has structured the argument? |
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Style Does the author’s tone and/or diction help him or her appeal to the audience? |
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Claim(s) What claims does the author make in the text and are they claims of fact, value, or policy? |
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Support What kind of evidence does the author use to support the argument? Is it credible? Is it persuasive? |
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Counterarguments/ Concessions Does the author acknowledge any viewpoints counter to his own? How does this work within the essay? |
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Appeal to Ethos How does the author establish authority? |
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Appeal to Pathos How does the author elicit an emotional response from readers? |
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Appeal to Logos How does the author appeal to logos? Does the author use inductive or deductive reasoning to reach the conclusion? |
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Logical Fallacies Does the author commit any logical fallacies or used flawed reasoning? |
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ANALYSIS: Now step back and analyze the data you have compiled above. My hope is that you’ll see lots of connections between these elements because they work together. For example, you might ask yourself how the intended audience determines what kind of appeal the author makes. Use this information to come up with some sort of meaningful statement about the way the author has constructed his or her argument. |
