Rhetorical Analysis Essay – DNA by Kendrick Lamar
As an artifact for my rhetorical analysis, I chose the song “DNA” by Kendrick Lamar from his most recent and provocative album “Damn”, released in 2017. Living in a Trump-era America, we face many social issues such as gender and race inequality, police brutality, and a rise in hate crimes across the country. It is […]
Rhetorical analysis writing
A rhetorical analysis analyzes how an author argues rather than what an author argues. It focuses on what we call the “rhetorical” features of a text—the author’s situation, purpose for writing, intended audience, kinds of claims, and types of evidence—to show how the argument tries to persuade the reader. Structure Your rhetorical analysis will need: […]
Rhetorical Analysis of a News Event
This is a roughly 1000-1500 word rhetorical analysis of a current news event, examining the ways that news outlets with different audiences and agendas present the same incident. You will select a story that is currently being widely covered and examine the ways the coverage differs and overlaps between outlets. This will include analysis of […]
Rhetorical artifact: Evaluation is to consider what came before it,
The final assignment for this class is to take an event or rhetorical artifact (this could be something from the media or even a movie) and analyze it from a rhetorical perspective. To do so is to look at it critically and ask yourself why it is rhetorical and how. Evaluation is to consider what […]
Rhetorical analysis/criticism of a multi-modal text.
Upload your polished 2000-2500 word rhetorical analysis/criticism of a multi-modal text. Your chosen text may be any kind of multi-modal text; e.g., an image with words (such as an advertisement on a wall or in a magazine), a page on a website, a skit, a cartoon, a short video, or a scene from a television […]
