...English Composition May 4, 2016 Professor Russell Tiedt Rhetorical Analysis of a Public Document The main purpose of the Centers for Disease Control, also known as CDC, is to put in place safeguard measures for individuals by promoting the quality of life through prevention and control of diseases, injuries, and disabilities (CDC, 2013). The CDC is concerned about a prevalent disease which is common in children to adults called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder which is also referred as ADHD. The CDC has created a webpage for ADHD to educate and inform parents, patients or potential patients, caregivers and teachers of the facts surrounding ADHD. The article itself, has different topics pertaining to ADHD, such as the signs and symptoms, the different types of ADHD, and some of the causes of ADHD just to name a few. The CDC website can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html and the layout is well structured, with all the quick links easily assessable. Before going straight into the rhetorical tools, one must know what they are. Ethos is the ethical appeal, pathos the emotional appeal and logos is the logical appeal. Using these rhetorical tools, the CDC developed an effective website, by giving their audience the factual information on ADHD. The ethical appeal, ethos, the CDC uses would be most present within the signs and symptoms, causes and treatments section of the article. The author is persuading the audience by showing us that they are...
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...07-13-2014 Rebecca Foy The rhetorical analysis of the CDC’s website on ADHD. The CDC is a government funded organization, but they do not share enough information with the public, so we can be proactive in dealing with, or minimizing the negative effects of ADHD. The CDC is not sharing information that would help the public to understand, to minimize the questions being asked, and to what depths or severity ADHD is, or could be. Some of the public may not fully understand the context of the issues pertaining to ADHD, what the CDC’s actual credibility is, and to whom they are trying to impart their knowledge. When a young child is sick, we take them to the doctor. What if we do not know they are sick, what then? That’s where the CDC gets involved with ADHD, but what do we really know about the disease, other than its generally found in children, and that it is an issue in their neurodevelopment. Children today are being diagnosed with ADHD. According to the CDC it is not ok, but the way to fix it seems to be, to medicate the child or teen, so the symptoms become less apparent. Does that really help? One of the issues with medicating could be, the child does not develop emotionally, and or socially, in an appropriate way. Is this safe for the kids, or is the CDC trying to keep ADHD under control, like they successfully have done with malaria, and leprosy (not actually creating a cure like with polio, or the possibility of a surgical fix). The CDC has cured many things, but...
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...Draft of a Rhetorical Analysis of a Public Document Assignment Goal Write a 750-1,000-word essay that analyzes the rhetorical situation of a public document. This public document is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) found at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html. Your analysis should include at least TWO scholarly sources outside of class texts. Directions Complete a close reading of the assigned public document. Then, write a cohesive essay that: 1. Introduces and summarizes the CDC website on ADHD. 2. Analyzes the rhetorical tools used on the site (here, you will want to incorporate ideas from your preanalysis below). For instance, your essay could analyze the CDC’s use of ethos, pathos, and logos. 3. Evaluates the site’s effectiveness (again, ideas from your preanalysis below will be helpful). This essay is NOT simply an expository or descriptive essay or an analysis of ADHD. It is an analysis of the site and how effectively the site uses rhetorical tools to get its point across. First Draft Grading * You will receive completion points for the first draft based upon the successful submission of your draft. * Because your first draft is a completion grade, do not assume that this grade reflects or predicts the final grade. If you do not consider your instructor’s comments, you may be deducted points on your final draft. Final Draft Grading The essay will...
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...Draft of a Rhetorical Analysis of a Public Document Assignment Goal Write a 750-1,000-word essay that analyzes the rhetorical situation of a public document. This public document is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) found at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html. Your analysis should include at least TWO scholarly sources outside of class texts. Directions Complete a close reading of the assigned public document. Then, write a cohesive essay that: 1. Introduces and summarizes the CDC website on ADHD. 2. Analyzes the rhetorical tools used on the site (here, you will want to incorporate ideas from your preanalysis below). For instance, your essay could analyze the CDC’s use of ethos, pathos, and logos. 3. Evaluates the site’s effectiveness (again, ideas from your preanalysis below will be helpful). This essay is NOT simply an expository or descriptive essay or an analysis of ADHD. It is an analysis of the site and how effectively the site uses rhetorical tools to get its point across. Use Chapter 2 in The Call to Write and the sample rhetorical analysis on pages 57-60 as a guide. First Draft Grading * You will receive completion points for the first draft based upon the successful submission of your draft. * Because your first draft is a completion grade, do not assume that this grade reflects or predicts the final grade. If you do not consider your instructor’s...
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...ENG-105 Peer Review Worksheet: Rhetorical Analysis of a Public Document Part of your responsibility as a student in this course is to provide quality feedback to your peers that will help them to improve their writing skills. This worksheet will assist you in providing that feedback. Name of the draft’s author: Saffiyah Khan Name of the peer reviewer: Annette Brown Reviewer After reading through the draft one time, write a summary (3-5 sentences) of the paper that includes your assessment of how well the essay meets the assignment requirements as specified in the syllabus and the rubric. This paper talked about the attempt the CDC tries to make the disorder simple. How the parents of children who are affected by the disorder don’t understand it and often try to hide the fact that their child has a disorder. The CDC tries to make it understandable that the common folks and the parents of children who suffer can understand this. This paper talked about the attempt the CDC tries to make the disorder simple. How the parents of children who are affected by the disorder don’t understand it and often try to hide the fact that their child has a disorder. The CDC tries to make it understandable that the common folks and the parents of children who suffer can understand this. After a second, closer reading of the draft, answer each of the following questions. Positive answers will give you specific elements of the draft to praise; negative answers will indicate areas in need...
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...Rhetorical analysis is the ability to read an article and determine whether it was written to persuade, inform or entertain an audience and sometimes they were written to do all three. Sometimes essays and articles are written in response to another article. Usually a popular text is written based off of an academic text and sometimes the transition from academic to popular text can cause the information that is in the academic text to be miscommunicated. However, this is not the case in Alan Schwarz’s article that was published in the New York Times titled, “Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report Finds, Raising Worries” which reports on a study done by Susanna N. Visser and it was published through the Center For Disease Control. Although they are both two very different types of writing they both include the same information regarding the amount of kids that are diagnosed and medicated for A.D.H. In Schwarz’s article he is able to summarize the academic article as well as provide his own insight, analysis and criticism about the issue. Schwarz is able to do so by summarizing information in the academic article and “dumb down” the scientific jargon in the CDC report therefore making it easier for a vast audience to comprehend and be interested in the article. According to Martin Robbins article, “Why I spoofed Scientific Journalism, and How to Fix It,” regarding the issue of scientific journalism he states that one of the hardest things to do is do more than...
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...Rhetorical Analysis ADHD There are many disorders that are people are becoming aware of such as ADHD. This disorder is most common in young children. There are many different sources that are available for this disorder. On of the sites that do have information for parents and people that are working with children and it is important for them to become aware of the signs and symptoms of this disorder. One of the website that people with children or people that may work with children and know someone else that may have this disorder. It is important to use the appropriate website to conduct research about this disorder. I do have a better understanding ADHD from reading the CDC website. This is important to have a good understanding when working with children. Being aware of the signs and symptoms can be helpful in early detection. Early detection in ADHD is important for the child. Supporting and helping the parent research for the treatment options and allowing the parent to consult the best treatment option the child. The child should also be included as well. Some of the treatments will not work at all or the treatments may be to invasive. The parent and the doctor should take this into consideration. The CDC website intention is to provided information about the ADHD. This disorder is becoming more common in young children. Parents and people that work with children should become more aware of the signs and symptoms. Reference Page...
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...Angela D Middleton ENG – 105 February 11, 2015 Jennifer Chinn Rhetorical Analysis of the CDC Website Attention – Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder If a child fidgets, day dreams, forgets where they placed things, talks excessively, or has trouble getting along with other children then they are labeled as disruptive and hyper. This is what leads to children being diagnosed with ADHD or Attention – Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. “ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood” (CDC, 2014). Knowing what ADHD is, the credibility of the site that is providing the information, and the audience that the web page targets are key to finding information on the disease that is credible, factual, and easy to understand. ADHD is usually diagnosed in children and can last up into adulthood. “It is normal for children to have trouble focusing and behaving at one time or another” (CDC, 2014). Children that struggle with ADHD have symptoms that cause difficulty at school, home, and in friendships. According to the CDC, signs of ADHD include daydreaming, losing things and forgetting things, squirming, talkative, take risks, make unnecessary mistakes, struggle with resisting temptation, struggle with taking turns, and find difficulty in getting along with others. “ADHD is diagnosed much more often in boys than in girls” (Berger, 2014). ADHD is broken down into three types that categorize those...
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...Angela D Middleton ENG – 105 February 11, 2015 Jennifer Chinn Rhetorical Analysis of the CDC Website Attention – Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder If a child fidgets, day dreams, forgets where they placed things, talks excessively, or has trouble getting along with other children then they are labeled as disruptive and hyper. This is what leads to children being diagnosed with ADHD or Attention – Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. “ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood” (CDC, 2014). Knowing what ADHD is, the credibility of the site that is providing the information, and the audience that the web page targets are key to finding information on the disease that is credible, factual, and easy to understand. ADHD is usually diagnosed in children and can last up into adulthood. “It is normal for children to have trouble focusing and behaving at one time or another” (CDC, 2014). Children that struggle with ADHD have symptoms that cause difficulty at school, home, and in friendships. According to the CDC, signs of ADHD include daydreaming, losing things and forgetting things, squirming, talkative, take risks, make unnecessary mistakes, struggle with resisting temptation, struggle with taking turns, and find difficulty in getting along with others. “ADHD is diagnosed much more often in boys than in girls” (Berger, 2014). ADHD is broken down into three types that categorize those...
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...12 December 2013 Rhetorical Analysis American Psychiatric Association spoke about ADHD and the steps and processes for caring for the disorder. CDC explained how ADHD had increased every year and the average age for a child to diagnose is seven years old. Boys are more affected with ADHD than girls are. Medical treatment for ADHD also increases due to medication and seeing specialist. Social relationship for a child with ADHD has it downfalls. CDC said “Parents report that children with a history of ADHD are almost 10 times as likely to have difficulties that interfere with friendships” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Also children with ADHD show more injuries and hospital visits than a child without ADHD. Lastly the cost of being diagnosed with ADHD can cost over millions of dollars that will included medication, health care, and treatment. From the high percentage of ADHD being diagnosed in children parents’ income have decreases because of the cost of disorder. ADHD has increased since 2003 till 2011. It states that children between the ages of 4-17 have been diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD has increased numerous times throughout the years. Due to the increase of ADHD study have shown that children are having problems with social skills, parents keeping up with medical bills, the cost of ADHD and how dangerous it can be being diagnosed with ADHD. Social skills average that 7% of children are diagnosed with ADHD. Having mental illnesses and functional impairments...
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...Rachael Gaskins ENG- 105 July 6, 2015 Bob Staples Rhetorical Analysis The Center for Disease Control is one of the largest organizations in the United States related to the Department of Health and Human Services. The center began on July 1, 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center (CDC). Its original goal was to stop malaria from growing throughout the nation. The founder of Communicable Disease center, Dr. Joseph Mountin kept fighting for health issues for the public and wanted to give attention to other communicable diseases as well. “The mission statements for the Center of Disease Control states “ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States,” ( Our History-Our Story, 2013). The organization continues to put forth efforts of restricting chronic diseases, work place hazards and environmental health threats. It is claimed to be the leader in public health. In today’s day and age the Center for Disease Control has accessible resources such as the website http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html. This website provides information about many diseases. For example the link above shares up to date data on Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)...
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...Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis Jane Mathison Fife The attraction of Facebook is a puzzle to many people over the age of thirtyfive, and that includes most college faculty. Yet students confess to spending significant amounts of time on Facebook, sometimes hours a day. If you teach in a computer classroom, you have probably observed students using Facebook when you walk in the room. Literacy practices that fall outside the realm of traditional academic writing, like Facebook, can easily be seen as a threat to print literacy by teachers, especially when they sneak into the classroom uninvited as students check their Facebook profiles instead of participating in class discussions and activities. This common reaction reflects James King and David O’Brien’s (2002: 42) characterization of the dichotomy teachers often perceive between school and nonschool literacy activities (although they are not referring to Facebook specifically): “From teachers’ perspectives, all of these presumably pleasurable experiences with multimedia detract from students’ engagement with their real work. Within the classroom economy technology work is time off task; it is classified as a sort of leisure recreational activity.” This dichotomy can be broken down, though; students’ enthusiasm for and immersion in these nonacademic literacies can be used to complement their learning of critical inquiry and traditional academic concepts like rhetorical analysis. Although they read these texts daily...
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...21 23 32 SECOND DRAFT 4.1.4 Drama 4.1.5 Films 4.1.6 Literary Appreciation 4.1.7 Schools of Literary Criticism 4.2 Catering for Learner Diversity 4.3 Meaningful Homework 4.4 Role of Learners Chapter 5 41 45 52 69 71 72 73 74 Assessment 5.1 Guiding Principles 5.2 Internal Assessment 5.2.1 Formative Assessment 5.2.2 Summative Assessment 5.3 Public Assessment 5.3.1 Standards-referenced Assessment 5.3.2 Modes of Public Assessment 74 74 74 75 77 77 77 Quality Learning and Teaching Resources 104 6.1 Use of Set Texts 6.2 Use of Other Learning and Teaching Resources 104 108 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 109 Supporting Measures 7.1 Learning and Teaching Resource Materials 7.2 Professional Development 109 109 Appendix 1 Examples of Poetry Analysis 110 Appendix 2 Examples of...
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...A BRIEF CONTENTS PART 1 • GETTING STARTED 1. Becoming a Public Speaker 2. From A to Z: Overview of a Speech 3. Managing Speech Anxiety 4. Ethical Public Speaking 5. Listeners and Speakers 1 2 8 1 4 23 30 PART 2 • DEVELOPMENT 6. Analyzing the Audience 7. Selecting a Topic and Purpose 8. Developing Supporting Material 9. Locating Supporting Material 10. Doing Effective Internet Research 1 Citing Sources in Your Speech 1. 36 37 49 57 64 73 83 PART 3 • ORGANIZATION 1 Organizing the Speech 2. 1 Selecting an Organizational Pattern 3. 1 Outlining the Speech 4. 92 93 103 1 10 PART 4 • STARTING, FINISHING, AND STYLING 15. Developing the Introduction and Conclusion 16. Using Language 1 22 1 23 1 31 PART 5 • DELIVERY 1 Choosing a Method of Delivery 7. 18. Controlling the Voice 19. Using the Body 1 39 1 40 1 44 1 48 PART 6 • PRESENTATION AIDS 20. Types of Presentation Aids 21. Designing Presentation Aids 22. A Brief Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 154 155 161 164 PART 7 • TYPES OF SPEECHES 23. Informative Speaking 24. Persuasive Speaking 25. Speaking on Special Occasions 1 74 1 75 188 21 7 PART 8 • THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND 230 26. Typical Classroom Presentation Formats 27. Science and Mathematics Courses 28. Technical Courses 29. Social Science Courses 30. Arts and Humanities Courses 31. Education Courses 32. Nursing and Allied Health Courses 33. Business Courses and Business Presentations 34. Presenting in Teams 35. Communicating in Groups 231 236 240 243 246 248 25 1 253 258...
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...Narrative A narrative is a sequence of events that a narrator tells in story form. A narrator is a storyteller of any kind, whether the authorial voice in a novel or a friend telling you about last night’s party. Point of View The point of view is the perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes. First-person narration: A narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as “I.” The narrator may be an active participant in the story or just an observer. When the point of view represented is specifically the author’s, and not a fictional narrator’s, the story is autobiographical and may be nonfictional (see Common Literary Forms and Genres below). Third-person narration: The narrator remains outside the story and describes the characters in the story using proper names and the third-person pronouns “he,” “she,” “it,” and “they.” • Omniscient narration: The narrator knows all of the actions, feelings, and motivations of all of the characters. For example, the narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina seems to know everything about all the characters and events in the story. • Limited omniscient narration: The narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one or a handful of characters. For example, the narrator of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has full knowledge of only Alice. • Free indirect discourse: The narrator conveys a character’s inner thoughts...
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