Grade: This is worth 10% of the final grade
Instructions: You can complete this analysis by answering each question one at a time or by giving paragraph responses. You will need to look at your blog Public argument and your Presentation (the revision of that argument).
For this Rhetorical Analysis, you will be analyzing the rhetorical choices you made in changing from your first Persuasive Argument (the website blog) to the Visual Presentation and why you made them.
Part I—Looking at the blog Public Argument
1. Who was the specific audience of your blog Public Argument? Include specifics that make the audience unique, such as their experiences or perspectives related to your topic.
2. In your blog Public Argument, what is a specific rhetorical strategy that you used to persuade this audience?
3. Include a specific example from your blog of this strategy. You can quote or paraphrase.
4. Explain the reasons that this specific example of a strategy in your blog likely was or wasn’t persuasive to your intended audience.
Part II— Looking at the Visual Presentation (the revision of that argument)
1. Who was the specific audience of your Visual Presentation? Include specifics that make the audience unique, such as their experiences or perspectives related to your topic.
2. In your Visual Presentation, what is a specific rhetorical strategy that you used to persuade this audience?
3. Include a specific example from your presentation of this strategy. You can quote or paraphrase.
4. Explain the reasons that this specific example of a strategy in your presentation likely was or wasn’t persuasive to your intended audience.
Part III—Looking at your revisions
1. Summarize the major changes that you made between the blog Public Argument and the Visual Presentation.
2. How is the audience for the Visual Presentation distinctly different than the audience for the blog Public Argument
3. What specific rhetorical strategies did you use differently in the two different arguments?
4. Include a specific example from your blog and from your presentation to support this. You can quote or paraphrase.
5. Explain the reasons that this specific change likely was or wasn’t persuasive to each of your intended audiences.
Conclusion
1. Discuss your experience making major changes in a way that shows your critical thinking through the process. For example, you could explain what comments from peers or others helped you know what to revise and have ideas to revise, or what you gained from the revising process, or what strategies can help you revise your writing well in the future.
Grading Criteria
• Fully explains major revision choices, demonstrating knowledge of global rhetorical issues and competence in addressing them.
• Fully explains the new rhetorical situation (target audience, strategies revised, and reasons).
• Analysis of rhetorical strategy is clearly articulated and cohesive.
• Gives specific examples of the changes made (from the earlier draft and the revision draft) or rhetorical choices made.