Answer quesitions

LING 305 W

COLFV analysis of the Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet

Rhetorical Situation

1. Read the title, subtitles and look at the pictures. What do you think the text is about? What do you know about the situation that gave rise to the call to write?

2. Skim the text and decide on what the author wants to achieve by presenting the information. Who do you think is the intended reader?

3. Is the topic relevant to reader? Does the writer need to raise the reader’s interest in the topic?

Content

4. What background knowledge is necessary for the reader to understand the topic? How does the assumption the writer makes about the reader’s background knowledge reflect the information ex/included?

5. How does the writer build credibility? How did the writer obtain the information? Does the information reflect the knowledge from a certain discipline?

Organization

6. What does the writer list?

7. What does the writer classify?

8. What does the writer illustrate?

Language

9. What is the writer’s tone?

10. How might the word choice influence the reader’s perspective?

11. Explain the tenses used in the text?

12. Does the writer use the passive or the active voice? Why?

Format

13. Considering the other elements of your analysis, how do different features of the format guide the reader through the text?

Values

14. What are some of the values within the discourse community (writer and reader)?

Evaluation

15. What (if anything) about the text is effective?

16. What (if anything) about the text is not effective?