...Transcendentalism is the belief that all people are innately good and that they should voice their opinions without caring what others think. In time Ralph Waldo Emerson created this philosophical belief and wrote about his ideas in the essays Nature and Self Reliance. Although Emerson is most widely known for his Transcendentalist views others have referenced Transcendentalist ideas in either their art, music or writings. The singer/songwriter Bon Jovi's songs are abounding with Emerson’s theories from his essays. In the song It’s My Life Bon Jovi sings about how it is important for people to say what they believe and to disregard what others think to lead a happier and more fulfilling life; which encompasses some of the fundamental ideals of transcendentalism and Emerson's essay Nature....
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...Martin Luther King starts off his letter, “My Dear Fellow Clergymen”, stating this, he is putting himself on the same “height” as the clergymen, sending a clear message that he is no less then them and no better than him. In the first paragraph King introduces his thoughts about discrimination writing a letter in the Jail of Birmingham, he states “I came across your recent statement calling my present activities unwise and untimely.”, he’s mentioning the argument of his opponents showing what will be later argued in the letter. He provides a reasoning stating “I want to try to answer your statements in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms”, which introduces logos because King doesn’t want further problems with his opponents (the eight other men who the letter was stated to) argument saying that King wants the most reasonable way for them to hear and he wants no terms in being “unwise and untimely”....
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...Have you ever experienced racism? Racism is inevitable. We see it everywhere we go. Whether it’s at home, at school or even at work. Andrew W.K, William Wan, and Sarah Kaplan have all reacted to viewing racism in different point of views due to their encounter. Whether they revolve around addressing a specific situation or addressing one situation as a whole determines how powerful their message is. In Andrew W. K’s article, “How Can I Talk to My Bigoted Friend?”, he was able to demonstrate an amazing rhetorical analysis using more of a blunter pathos based approach. Meanwhile William Wan and Sarah Kaplan’s, “Why are people still racist? What science says about America’s race problem.”, was able to use a more professional informative approach to demonstrate the effectiveness of their analysis. Though the authors discussed the same topics, their purposes on the other hand were quite different due to their situation. W.K is an American hard rock singer, and a current motivational speaker who was attempting to mainly address racism within a one-to-one conversation in his advice column. While addressing that conversation, he was also able to promote his main purpose which mainly was to demonstrate how powerful...
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...[pic] English 101 Assignments Unit One Rhetorical Situation Analysis Report (Graded as homework) Completing this rhetorical situation analysis “report” will help you to understand the context—the rhetorical situation—in which a text was written, identify the writer’s intended audience and rhetorical purpose, and consider how effective his or her strategies are for accomplishing that purpose. Text: “My View: Should Everyone Go to College?” by Mike Rose (Report due September 3rd) http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/09/my-view-should-everyone-go-to-college/ “What Value Really Means in Higher Education” by Karen R. Lawrence (Report due September 17th) http://hechingerreport.org/content/value-really-means-higher-education_15129/ Present your responses in the form of short answers to the questions below (not in essay form). Note: As you answer the questions, be guided by the information Rhetorical Choices: Analyzing and Writing Arguments provides in Chapters 3 and 4 to refresh your understanding of rhetorical situation, purpose, audience, kairos, the ethos, pathos, and logos appeals, and rhetorical analysis. 1. Where did this text originally appear? 2. What is the genre of the text? What are the common rhetorical purposes for texts in this genre? (See pp. 22-24 in Rhetorical Choices for examples) 3. What can you discern about the discourse community in which this text is operating? Who is part of the discourse community, what values...
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...Rhetorical Analysis No matter what fields you are in, we as academic writers will be familiar with rhetorical choices. Rhetorical choices play an important role in writing. They’re the “key ingredients” in a paper in order to capture readers’ attention and achieve writers’ purposes. When I was in Human Resource Organization Behaviors 101 class, professor Thomas Shirley assigned an ethics case for each group. I joined a group of five people and we got together for several group meetings. Finally, I was assigned to compose the “Ethical Analysis” section. Toward to the paper deadline, we produced the paper called “Starbucks: Friend or Foe.” The purpose of the assignment was to argue that whether the company’s decision was ethical when Starbucks fired employees for supporting unions and applied the four-component model of ethical decision making to this case. Discourse community is an essential factor when composing a paper. According to “Students Writing Handbook”, discourse community is a unique communication tool which people use to communicate with their readers within their fields (30). Since the paper was written for a required upper division major core course, the discourse community is all business majors. The genre was a general business paper with three sections: case summary, ethical analysis, and recommendations. We are college students are trained to become more professional in our careers. As a result, my group paper’s intended audiences were only Professor Thomas Shirley...
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...Over the past two school quarters, I have learned a lot from being in Ms.Kiyak’s AP Lang class. I’ve learned that there are things I need to work on because I am not a perfect writer and there are also things that I am good at. Two of my strengths when writing formally are I am thoughtful when creating thesis statements and I do a great job at using factual evidence. Which are seen in my synthesis essay and social justice speech. The thesis of my synthesis essay states “Sexual assault is an issue that is constantly faced in the workplace, at school, on the streets and even in the comfort of home. The society as a whole must not accept this as normal and must take actions towards fixing this problem; but, in order for this to happen, they must...
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...Introduction Rhetorical Analysis (RA) is an examination of how the author uses rhetorical elements to present strong arguments and effective communication with the audience. Rhetorical analysis is one of the best ways to learn persuasive writing strategies that I will use to improve my writing. In an article “Cognitive computing capabilities can help member firm clients make smarter, faster choices,” the author uses a variety of writing works to deliver his/her messages about Deloitte’s professionalism and clients’ benefit. I have analyzed the article into three parts: rhetorical situations, rhetorical appeals, and rhetorical strategies. By identifying elements of the rhetorical situation, I can learn how to set up the circumstances that...
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...Finding the sources turned out to be pretty easy because I used the sources that had been provided. I chose to do my rhetorical analysis on the narrative by Sarah Louise Augustus, so that will be my primary source and then the articles titled "General Structure of Slave Narratives", "An introduction to the Slave Narrative", and "What is Literature?" will be the remaining sources. Summarizing each source proved to be slightly more difficult as some of them were quite lengthy, which made it a challenge to adequately encompass the message of the source in only a small paragraph. Originally I found it difficult to decide what style I should use when writing the summaries, but reading through the examples provided helped me determine the proper...
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...I do not have a much experience writing a rhetorical analysis. The last time I practiced with writing a rhetorical analysis was in High School but it did not consist of writing a 6 page paper. In High School we analysed short speeches but did not go in dept on writing multiple analysis. So when writing a rhetorical analysis on a blog for this semester I had to do more research on how to write a rhetorical analysis. The activities that were helpful were the outside assignment and class workshop. The outside assignments were helpful because they focus on teaching writing skills. When doing the assignments, it showed the pages to read and then gave a small test based on the readings. One of the assignments was on “Nouns and Pro-nouns” and it...
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...In my rhetorical analysis of the CoverGirl advertisement I analysis three rhetorical tools that are strongly conveyed to me. The advertisement uses these rhetorical tools to further persuaded audiences to buy the CoverGirl product and even stick with the brand. In this analysis I will cover the rhetorical appeals that try to convince viewers that the product is superior, the use of myth and how it is used to strengthen the persuasiveness of the advertisement, and the rhetorical situation of the advertisement. Let us move onto rhetorical appeal Rhetorical appeal is a very good way to structure any persuasive document and when used correctly it can service its purpose well. Let’s analysis how this persuasive advertisement uses rhetorical appeal. Pathos in this advertisement is very straight forward; it wants the view to be curious but also excited with a hint of wonder or in other words it wants “to raise emotions” (Aristotle, n.d. p. 146) within a viewer. The use of Taylor Swift along with the mention of more bang for your buck, since this cream can beat ones that cost $180, would draw on a viewer’s emotion and cause them to be persuaded because their idol is advertising a product that she, Taylor Swift, is using daily to perfect her skin and it isn’t an expensive designer brand. Next we will focus on logos and its use in this advertisement. Logos is the “logical appeals [that] stress the reasonableness” (Aristotle, n.d p. 146). This advertisement relies heavily on...
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...means the reader will understand thoroughly everything you are writing on the paper. My personal experience in writing was challenging and valuable at the same time. This semester I took an Academic Writing and Argument course with professor Missy Watson. During this semester, I learned how to analyze arguments, write rhetorical analysis essay, work with researched and visual arguments, effectively...
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...During this course, I been leaning to write with the help of different literary devices such as visual texts or books. For two of the major assignment for this course 1301 English I used images to write a rhetorical analysis about the negative side of Facebook and with the help of a book called The Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement...
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...academic skill to do the research. In the Brainstorming task, I learn how to organization my thinking. The task helps me to develop some ideas from different angle which devise my essay question. It is the foundation of my essay. When I did the Brainstorming task, the China train collision has happened. This task helps me to extend my perspective behind the accident. My research topic idea ‘Why China society is riddled with corruption and immoralities?’ is come from this accident.The peer and self-review task help me to develop critical and objective thinking via reading my partner brainstorming and my partner feedback. The source justification task helps me to assess the material appropriate or not and do the correct reference. And the Literature Review task helps me to form the final essay argument and use the sources to support my argument. In The Interpretation Analysis Task I learned how to focus on the analysis writing. Also learn how to interpret, evaluate and compile my argument. In the Collaborative Critical reading task and presentation I learn how to form an argument via analysis the advertisement. In the online activities I have made a poster and analysis the poster. In this task I learned how to use the rhetorical strategies such as three rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos and logo). It helps me to build a pervasive argument in my essay. This course not only provides rhetorical knowledge but also the technique of critical writing. The most important is that I know...
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...102 12/9/15 Writing 102 Portfolio Throughout this semester of Writing 102, I have been assigned to write four essays that have stressed the course competencies of subject matter knowledge, writing process knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, genre knowledge, discourse community knowledge, and meta-cognition. Through the process of drafting, editing, and revising three out of the four papers, I think I have been effectively able to absorb three of those course competencies; subject matter knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, and writing process knowledge. The first paper I was assigned to write for Writing 102 was a literacy narrative. For this paper, I was told to write about a past experience that helped influence my current writing and reading qualities. The core competencies that were involved in this essay were writing process knowledge and subject matter knowledge. I used writing process knowledge when I was told to generate ideas for my essay. I began by thinking of five possible ideas and from there I created a brainstorming web out of the two topics I thought would be the most interesting. Shortly after starting, I realized I could only build an effective brainstorming web from one idea. I decided to use the first time I forgot my lines in a play as my main idea for the essay. After I completed the brainstorming web and finished taking notes on what I remembered from the incident I started to follow the writing process that consisted of prewriting, drafting, and revising...
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...Associate Program Material Appendix C Rhetorical Modes Matrix Rhetorical modes are methods for effectively communicating through language and writing. Complete the following chart to identify the purpose and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least 2 tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. |Rhetorical Mode |Purpose – Explain when or why |Structure – Explain what organizational |Provide 2 tips for writing in | | |each rhetorical mode is used. |method works best with each rhetorical mode. |each rhetorical mode. | |Narration |Anytime you tell what happened |The organizational method that works best |Two tips for narrative writing| | |or tell a story you use |with narrative writing is chronological |are decide if the story is | | |narration. |order. |factual or fictional, and use | | | | |transitional words and | | | | |phrases. | | |The purpose of an illustration |Order of importance is the best way to |One tip is to use transitional| |Illustration |essay is to show or demonstrate |organize an illustration...
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