RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY

FORMAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT #3: WRITING A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS (5-pages w/

works cited page beginning on page six)

The rhetorical analysis essay should be written about the text that you consider to be your single most important source. The source may be any book, book chapter, or article relating to the serious social issue that you wrote about previously for FWA#2. You should not change your topic. After reading your new source carefully and taking notes, you will compose a rhetorical analysis essay that (1) Analyzes the writer’s use of literary and/or rhetorical strategies. (2) Demonstrate some of the ways said strategies appeal to a reader’s sense of ethos, logos, and pathos. Another one of your goals in writing the rhetorical analysis (3) is to break the writing down into its constituent elements and to explain how these elements work together to provide the reader with a better understanding of the topic. (4) Additionally, you should describe how well you think the writer addresses the topic and ways that you think the writing could be improved. One goal of the rhetorical analysis essay is to help you to accumulate, interpret, and analyze research on your chosen topic. Some of the ideas that you encounter while writing the rhetorical analysis essay may very well become focal points in your argumentative essay.