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C. Pickrel English 20 updated 2019 Rhetorical Analysis Research and White Paper Preparing for the assignment: • Gather 3 -5 primary documents (these sources should be typical writing done by writers in your field of study). You could use the three academic journal articles that you collected for our literature review since these are written by writers working in your major/field of study (or a field of study you are considering) . Alternatively you could gather samples of writing done in a career that is typical for this major . Be su re that your documents do not cover too many different genres. You want to be able to make generalizations about what you see in the writing. (See Canvas for some samples of documents students have used in the past .) • Gather one secondary source that talks about writing done in your field of study. (see Canvas for some samples of documents students have used in the past.) • We will read about, watch videos on, and discuss rhetorical conventions and strategies that authors use to present their content to an a udience. See “Backpacks vs Briefcases” or Canvas for more information. • Using powernotes to track your information, you will annotate, collect examples, and document how writers in your field of study or future career use these rhetorical strategies. Your notes will detail appropriate conventions, discuss how the writing is structured, and determine which kinds of rhetorical strategies are used most often. Your powernotes should highlight examples, identify what the rhetorical strategy is that you see working in the example , and comment on how or why it is working or why it is used in this field . (See Canvas for some samples) • Some basic suggestions for types of research to track : Make notes about the way the author structures (organizes) his /her piece . Does s/he make use of any rhetorical appeals? Does s/he use Toulmin argument, logic or some other type of argumentative strategy to structure his /her point? Who is the typical audience for this kind of writing ? What kinds of purpose s do these writers s eem to have most often ? What are the academic/social/political contexts for communication? What counts as evidence? (For further instructions see last page of this assignment) See Canvas, studymate, for a list of other rhetorical strategies to investigat e. • Remember that you are not critiquing a particular author’s ideas (content) but composing an analysis of the author’s rhetorical choices (how s/he makes his/her point and achieves his/her purpose ). This Rhetorical Analysis assignment has two parts (each part is worth 50 points) : Part One Powernotes (collecting examples and beginning your analysis): 1. Use powernotes to gather examples and make annotations. You will download a Word document and upload this word document of your final n otes to Canvas. Part Two White Paper (writing out your analysis and delivering this information to an audience): 2. W rite a detailed white paper that presents the most common rhetorical strategies and conventions used by authors in your field. Audience: someone who wants to learn about writing in this area. C. Pickrel English 20 updated 2019 Requirements: • You must draw on specific details (quotations /examples ) from your research to make your points. • List your citation s/reference (the primary and secondary sources) according to the re search paper style preferred in this academic discipline /major : MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE , etc so that it is clear where to sources can be found. • The white paper content should be approximately 1,200 words , white paper style. This assignment covers the following English 20 Learning Objectives: • Reading texts from a variety of disciplines in a variety of genres • Identifying appropriate context -based writing conventions • Composing, info rmally and/or formally, in a variety of genres • Developing the ability to think critically about the values and standards of various disciplines Assignment Objective s: Focus on creating a clear picture of writing in this field and providing specific examp les as support for your analysis. Demonstrate your understanding of how rhetorical choices contribute to the success of a piece of writing . Powernotes: See Canvas for more information and links to using powernotes White paper format/content : See Canvas for more information on the white paper genre and samples Grading (see rubrics below the assignment on Canvas) : • Powernotes document (50 points) o Should annotate 3 -5 documents written by writers in your field of study. o Annotations should define samples that show a particular rhetorical strategy or element , explain how it is working, and why it is working well/not so well, or why the author is using the rhetorical element or why it is used in that field of study . o You should have notes covering at least five different topics (five different rhetorical strategies/elements). o You should collect at least three examples for each topic/ strateg y so that you have some to choose from when you go to write your paper. • White paper 50 points o Write up your analysis based on your powernotes by c reat ing a document in the genre of a white paper that explains what you have discovered about writing in this field of study. o This paper may be informational: you give information about the most common strategies/ways of writing a piece for the genre you looked at. o This paper could be persuasive: you d iscover that writers are not using effective strategies and you want to advise writers to adopt another approach so they can be more successful with writing in their field. o The paper should be written objectively, connect with what the audience needs to kn ow and use a white paper format that guides/informs/engages readers. o Your paper should include quoted examples from your primary sources with close analysis of these examples as well as generalizations about how they represent writing in this field of stud y. o Your paper should include information from at least one secondary source (an article that talks about writing in your field of study) as additional evidence to support your findings or as background information about writing in this field • Other graded l earning activit ies : submitting sources and peer review DUE Dates – See Canvas

*USE GOOGLE SCHOLAR FOR SOURCES * Do exactly as the samples in the attachment. 1-Now that you have a clearer idea of what rhetorical analysis involves, please choose and submit your primary sources an

USE GOOGLE SCHOLAR FOR SOURCES Do exactly as the samples in the attachment. 1-Now that you have a clearer idea of what rhetorical analysis involves, please choose and submit your primary sources an