Project 2

Critical Rhetorical Analysis Podcast & Intro.

For this assignment, students will be asked to find a text from a mainstream media source (i.e. New York Times, CNN, NPR, etc.) about a specific cultural event. They should be able to convince their audience not only of the event’s significance, but also of importance of the rhetorical moves the author made to discuss the event. In other words, this assignment is asking students to focus on the rhetorical situations of ethos, pathos, and logos and evaluate whether the writer was successful in achieving his or her goal. Can students convince the listeners of the success or lack of success of the article they are analyzing? This will be published on the student’s Google Site.

Check out Laura's project and script as an example!