...When I was looking for public service ad to analysis, I saw a poster that is magical and very interestingly propagandist. This poster seemed similar to World War II Soviet Union and Nazis propaganda posters. It has very distinct style and very mind boggling title that you never going to understand, unless you make some research on it. After seeing the poster, I felt that I had to know the meaning behind this puzzling design, and most importantly the message of the poster and the reasons why the author including the things that are hard to analysis and explain. To do the analyzing, I will use Rhetorical triangle and Toulmin analysis. Rhetorical triangle analysis consists of the text (Logos), author (Ethos), and audience (Pathos). The Toulmin analysis consists six parts: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, backing, and rebuttal....
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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 |The purpose of a narration is to| | Start with asking yourself if | | |tell stories. Narrations can be |Chronological order, which is a method of |you want to write a factual or | | |factual; story based on events |organization that arranges ideas according to|fictional story. Next, make a | | |as they happened in real life, |time, is the best organizational method for |plot summary, which is a | | |or fictional; made up or |narration. |paragraph or outline that | | |imagined | |describes only the main events | | | | ...
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...In a world where anyone can say anything, it is important to be able to identify the reasons behind the speaker’s purpose and what the individual is actually implying. The person I will be doing rhetorical analysis on is Donald Trump. Trump is sixty-nine years of age and he is currently a Chairman as well as president of The Trump Organization. I think Trump will be rhetorically interesting because I have done rhetorical analysis on him about his Facebook page previously. He was good at using rhetorical appeals to his audience at the right spots. To start off, for Trump, obviously his overall goal is to get votes. At the main republican presidential debate (excerpt on page 3), he present himself as someone respectful of his opponents by using...
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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 each rhetorical mode is used. Structure – Explain what organizational method works best with each rhetorical mode. Provide 2 tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. Narration Narration is used for storytelling such as telling a friend about an incident that occurred in your day. The best organizational method will be to use chronological order. This will help the reader to understand how each event led to the next. Use strong details related to the 5 senses in your story to help the reader get immersed into the story’s world. Decide before writing if you want the story to be factual or fictional. This will help to allow you to decide how creative you can be with the story. Illustration Illustration uses evidence to clearly support the thesis (controlling idea) of the paper. An example would be to right a paper about why Genetically Modified Organisms are dangerous. The thesis belongs at the beginning, followed by the support in the middle, and finally finishes with the conclusion. It is advisable to use order of importance to organize the supporting paragraphs into lest...
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...EN1320 EN1320 04/13/2013 04/13/2013 Essay 3.1 Rhetorical Analysis Obamas “A More Perfect Union” Speech Essay 3.1 Rhetorical Analysis Obamas “A More Perfect Union” Speech On March 18, 2008, Senator and future President Barack Obama delivered a speech that was titled “A More Perfect Union” (Obama Race Speech, 2008). This speech took place in Philadelphia, PA at the National Constitution Center. This speech was given during the 2008 Presidential race and looks to address the concerns regarding video of controversial and racially charged comments made by former pastor Jeremiah Wright which seemed to playing on loop in every media outlet possible. He also addressed the subjects of racial tension and race and inequality in the United States. From the beginning of the speech, it is evident that the most effective appeal that Obama chooses to use is ethos. As a rhetoric tool, ethos is used to establish character. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader (Examples of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos). In order to establish an effective ethos, the speaker must present themselves in a way that will make the audience believe what they say. A strong example of this is when he uses the quote “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union”. In referring to the U.S Constitution, this compels the audience to make a connection of significance and importance between his speech and that of the Constitution...
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...“I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.” Robert F. Kennedy delivered this news in his speech “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” to a predominately black crowd in Indianapolis on April 4th, 1968, only one day after King delivered his final speech in which he gave hope to his supporters of a promise land where injustice and inequality did not exist, in a time when there was more divisiveness in America than in almost any point in history (Spong, 809). Despite riots ensuing in major cities all over the country and a Negro gang in Indianapolis, known as the “Ten Percenters,” scouring the neighborhood gathering militant support...
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...INSTRUCTIONS: Flesh out the outline below in sentence/paragraph form under each point. Your text needs to be typed in Times New Roman, size 12, and in blue font. INTRODUCTION – 1 extended paragraph 1. Mention text title (underline) and author’s name. The many texts of student X was written by student X, AP. 2. Provide some context for the text (look for textual clues). (when and where) This text took place on Facebook during a summer vacation where two friends were apart from each other; it was taken place from the year 2004 onwards as Facebook did not become as well known website until then. 3. Provide a 2 - sentence synopsis of the text. This text is a back and forth conversation between AP, and PM. In this text they talk about their current experiences in the countries that they are in and exchange their thoughts and concerns with each other. 4. Identify the type of text, the audience, and purpose of the text. Use textual evidence to support your points. This electronic text was written for AP in relation to PM and PM in relation to AP, the purpose of this text is to inform. 5. Identify the main message and the theme. The message of this text is the affect of social media on friendships, and the theme is the influence of distance on relationships. 6. Formulate a 3-prong thesis statement that revolves around the main message and purpose of the text. Your thesis statement MUST include tone, structural elements, and stylistic devices....
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... Steve Jobs desired to provide the new graduates advice and motivation as they began to go into the “real world”. No matter where, why, or when a speech is given, in order for the speech to be good, it must use contextual and textual rhetorical analysis such as ethos, logos, pathos, and have proper structure and style. Structurally, Steve Jobs had an extremely well formed speech. Jobs related three stories he felt had taught him major life lessons which helped form who he has become today. These stories are related by him in chronological order of his life. His first story was about “connecting the dots”. He explained some of his struggles in regards to the successes of his early life and ended this first anecdote by saying, “Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever -- because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.” Jobs’ second story is about “love and loss”. He shared about his love for his work and how work lead him to meet his wife, but Jobs went on to tell about losing his job and how the love he had for his work is what kept him going. He ends this narrative by saying, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your...
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...Rhetorical analysis: Thank you for Smoking Watching anti-smoking or tobacco commercials is common in America. Which is to make people aware of the harmful side of smoking cigarettes, how it affects our heath by causing lung cancer and heart disease. This will be difficult for tobacco companies to sustain in the market, who get profit from cigarette smokers’ addictions. This companies hire smart lobbyists Nick Naylor to publicly protect their industry. He was the vice president of the academy of tobacco studies and also he gives legitimate argument to support his big tobacco company and he was confident with every thing he does. There is a good example where Naylor uses rhetorical appeals...
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...In a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward, the presidential debate is focusing on one question what makes a good president? The two candidates use a mix of eye contact and physical movement to get the audience's attention and show what they meant and where feeling they also used things like pathos, ethos and logos that helped to support their debate. In the presidential debate both candidates use rhetorical analysis such as ethos in their responses to the questions that were being asked by the audience. When being used, the candidates were attacking each others ethos. For example, when Clinton said, “when I hear something like that, I am reminded of what my friend Michelle Obama advised us all. When they go low, you go high”(CBSNewsOnline) it showed that she is already connected to power and that she is associated with the First Lady and the whole presidential family. Once she brought in the First Lady it gave her a step up from trump because she now got the support from the civilians that love Michelle Obama. There...
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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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...An Approach to Corpus-based Discourse Analysis: The Move Analysis as Example THOMAS A . UPTON AND MARY ANN COHEN Abstract This article presents a seven-step corpus-based approach to discourse analysis that starts with a detailed analysis of each individual text in a corpus that can then be generalized across all texts of a corpus, providing a description of typical patterns of discourse organization that hold for the entire corpus. This approach is applied specifically to a methodology that is used to analyze texts in terms of the functional/communicative structures that typically make up texts in a genre: move analysis. The resulting corpus-based approach for conducting a move analysis significantly enhances the value of this often used (and misused) methodology, while at the same time providing badly needed guidelines for a methodology that lacks them. A corpus of ‘birthmother letters’ is used to illustrate the approach. Biber et al. (2007) explore how discourse structure and organization can be investigated using corpus analysis; they offer a structured, seven-step corpusbased approach to discourse analysis that results in generalizable descriptions of discourse structure. This article draws on the themes in this book, but focuses in particular on analyses that use theories on communicative or functional purposes of text as the starting point for understanding why texts in a corpus are structured the way they are, before moving to a closer examination and description of...
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...When I walked into the cereal aisle in Meijer on Tuesday, September the eighth, I was confronted by a aisle packed with colors. Upon further examination however, I noticed many different things about not only the colors, but also how they were displayed throughout the aisle. Just like my visit to Meijer, this paper will not only look at the surface of the cereal aisle and my box of cereal, but also delve into the meaning behind their fronts and how the box I chose is marketed. The box I chose, “Kellogg’s Avengers: Age of Ultron Sweetened Cereal with Marshmallows”, is marketed at Meijer to children through character appeal, which displays ethos as its strongest rhetorical appeal. Throughout this paper I will show you how I came to this conclusion. The cereal aisle in Meijer is located in the middle of the center section of the store with the oatmeal, granola bars, fruit snacks, and candy across from the cereal. The cereal was set up so that you have the bags of the off-brand cereal in a section, then...
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...SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSEWORK CANDIDATE’S NAME: PRISHITA CHANDARIA CANDIDATE’S NUMBER: - CENTRE NUMBER: 94130 CENTRE NAME: JALARAM ACADEMY ASSESSOR’S NAME: MR. OLANDO CANDIDATE’S SIGNATURE: TASK: How successfully does the writer present the close family relationships in A Hero? You should write about the following relationships: * Swami’s relationship with his father. * The relationship between Swami, his grandma and his mother. * The relationship between Swami’s mother and father. * The writer’s use of words, phrases and techniques. You should refer closely to the text to support your answer. You may use brief quotations. R. K. Narayan was born on 10th October 1906 and died on 13th May 2001; his full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami. He was an Indian writer, best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian literature in English (alongside Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao), and is credited with bringing the genre to the rest of the world. Narayan’s first four books include; the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends; the Bachelor of Arts and the English Teacher. Narayan’s works also include Expert, hailed as one of the most...
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...author to illuminate their main theme, discuss how I personally related to the themes of each story, define Non-Fiction, and explore the use of imagination in Non-Fiction works. Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful motivational speaker. His passion shined through in not only how he spoke, but the words themselves. This is because he used imaginative metaphors and rhetorical questions to pull his audience in. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” rhetorical questions are used sporadically throughout to engage the reader and continuously present the main theme: injustice. Sometimes King uses it to show that he and his followers have considered the other side of the issue, “One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others"” (King, 1963, p 1305)? Other times, it's to gently force the reader to consider King's point of view, “Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice” (King, 1963, p 1309)? Rhetorical questions are defined by Merriam-Webster as “a question not intended to elicit an answer but asked for rhetorical effect often with...
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