Once you have chosen your essay topic from last week, PLEASE start writing your rhetorical analysis essay . Type your essay, making sure it is typed in MLA format, in times new roman 12 point font, do

ENC1102 Essay Two Guide : Rhetorical Analysis Overview of the Essay: For this essay you will be asked to write a rhetorical analysis of a published argument, explaining the arguments of the article (main and secondary), how the article makes those arguments (its methods), and how effective it is at doing so. It will need to be at least 1, 100 words in length, and to follow the formatting requirements presented in this handout. You are provided 12 different articles to choose from (posted below ). However, you are free to search and find an argumentative text that you would like to write about and analyze on your own. If you choose to choose your own article, please be sure to email me the article you find, as well as at least 2 full paragraphs explaining why you want to use the article. If you want to try to find you r own, try searching library databases or the internet in general for op -ed pieces or for opinion or editorial pieces, preferably more than 3 pages in length , and less than 15 . Important Note : Your Rhetorical Analysis should not address the content of the essay as its main focus. Your essay instead should focus on the rhetorical strategies used to create the author’s text and argument. To understand the difference, consider the movie Thank You for Smoking. Also consider the idea that even though you think something is true, you might not feel able to argue it effectively, meaning that the different ways you might argue or explain your point effect how credibly you are able to convince others to agree with you. This is what we are looking for with regards to rhetoric. Your job is to choose an essay, and then analyze that essay for its argumentative strategies and rhetorical effectiveness. Analyzing rhetoric means to analyze how the different portions of the text work — individua lly, and together as a whole —to produce a certain effect on the audience — both the intended audience, whoever that might be, and the more general audience, of which you are now a part. Through this assignment, you will become familiar with and use the lan guage of rhetoric. You will also become more comfortable with digging into texts, and with critiquing texts and authors to discover their meanings —both surface level and hidden. We will work to realize how we can use the fact that everything is an argumen t to better understand all that is going on in the world around us. Purpose of the Essay (for you, as students) : The purpose of the rhetorical analysis is simple: to help you become a better reader and writer. It will do this in a myriad of ways. First, it will to help you further learn to analyze texts to discover how the text affects audiences. This can help you become a better writer, in learning how to apply t he techniques you see to your own writing. It will also help you, very much so, to become a much better reader, as it will show you how to better read texts, actively interrogating them and their many possible meanings and interpretations. Beyond this, it will help you to become a better critical thinker, as you learn to read both what a text says, and also, even more importantly, HOW they say it. Finally, it will allow you to further realize and navigate the world of argument we all live in, realizing, finally and fully, that in the world we live in, EVERYTHING is indeed an ARGUMENT :☺. Purpose of the Essay (for the reader): You should notice that I’ve given you the purpose of the essay for yourself, to show you some of what I hope you will gain from writing this essay. Keep these things in mind as you complete your drafts, to see if you are getting what I hoped you’d get, fro m writing it. However, just as important as what YOU should get from writing the essay is what your reader should get from reading the essay. That’s your main goal, your purpose, in writing the essay. For the Rhetorical Analysis , your essay should very c learly evaluate the essay you’ve chosen, in terms of how it presents its argument. This does not mean tell us whether or not you believe the article, but instead what the article meant to accomplish, how it went about doing so, and how well it did so. You want a reader of your rhetorical analysis to walk away from it with the following: 1) an understanding of the article itself, even if they haven’t read it, 2) an understanding of how the article presented its argument, and finally 3) an understanding of rh etoric itself, which should help them feel better able to present their own arguments. Requirements: Length : Your essay must be a minimum of 1, 100 words in length. If it is short, it will be penalized, and the penalty could range from 5 -20 points up to failing the assignment. However, PLEASE do not write for filler. Don’t write wordily just to meet the word count. I set the limit because I believe it the minimum needed to be successful. If you’re having difficulty meeting the limit without adding words which signify and add nothing, come see me . There is no maximum word length; however, if you are approaching 8 or more pages, you should try to reflect if you might be too b road in your focus, or giving extraneous details. Formatting : Your essay should follow the following formatting guidelines: ➢ Typed ➢ Double Spaced ➢ Times New Roman 12 point font ➢ 1” margins ➢ Cite anything using MLA formatting (with accompanying Works Cited page) ➢ Have Last Name and Page number in upper right hand corner of every page. ➢ Not have a cover page ➢ Have on the first page on the left hand side, the following info: o Name o Inst. Adam Pri demore o ENC1102 CLASS DAY AND TIME o Day Month Year (that you last modified the text) Grammar : Your essay should have correct grammar. For every grammatical error, your essay could be penalized anywhere from 0.5 to 3 points. 12 Possible Articles to Write Your Rhetorical Analysis On (NOTE the first four are MOST current) : 1) Martin Luther King Jr. and the White Delusion of a 'Non -Racist' America – an article a rguing MLK was a radical who ha s been co -opted and sanitiz ed for White America. Article is ALSO linked as a PDF without the anno ying ad content https://www.theroot.com/martin -luther -king -jr-and -the -white -delusion -of-a-non -1831910328 2) Seductive Fascist Style – an article arguing that Disney ’s origina l car toon versio n of B ea uty and the Be ast present s a clear argument for how fascism works via Gaston https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4430 -seductive -fascist -style 3) The An xiety of Influencers: Educating the Tik -Tok Generation – an article about how social media has changed stu dents and education. https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/tiktok -house -collab -house -the -anxiety -of- influencers/?fbclid=IwAR0yPsrYPXT -cah8f3xGVm6XoXgkKCXewRcOkVIKokSulfXD1v_71Fq f-nE 4) F* *k the Bread. The Bread Is Over. – an article that argues that the Covid -19 pandemic has shown the inequalities of motherhood, and the fairy tale of what it means to be a working mother. NOTE – there is a linked PDF docu ment EDITED to excl ude the profanit y in this article . https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/07/f**k -the -bread -the -bread -is-over/ 5) In the Basement of the Ivory Tower - an article arguing about college professors, specifically adjuncts https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in -the -basement -of-the -ivory -tower/306810/ 6) The Terror and Tedium of Living Like Thoreau - an article arguing about being alone in today's society https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the -terror -and -tedium -of-living -like -thoreau/402358/ 7) An Introduction to It’s a Wonderful Loaf: Understanding Emergent Order in Our Daily Lives - article arguing about the power of the "Free market" and against government regulation https://shift.newco.co/an -introduction -to-emergent -order -a20a9aa025f 8) Kareem and OJ: Crime and Punishment An exclusive excerpt from I Wear the Black Hat - article arguing about how two black men were treated by America. http://grantland.com/features/an -exclusive -excerpt -chuck -klosterman -new -book -wear -black -hat -kareem -oj/ 9) The Original Underclass: Poor white Americans’ current crisis https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the -original -underclass/492731 10 ) President Trump's Inaugural Address https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings -statements/the -inaugural -address/ 11 ) President Obama's Inaugural Address https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president -barack -obamas -inaugural -address 12 ) White America's Greatest Delusion: "They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want to Know It" https://www.alternet.org/white -americas -greatest -delusion -they -do -not -know -it-and -they -do -not -want -know -it