User:Devourer09/ENGL 1302.410

This page is to help me with my studies in this course at NCTC. The primary text for this course is Practical Arguments: A Text and Anthology by Laurie Kirszner and Steve Mandell.

Rhetorical analysis checklist

These questions are taken from page 80 of Practical Argument: A Text and Anthology.

1. Who is the writer/speaker?
2. Is there anything in the writer's background that might influence what is (or is not) included in the argument?
3. What is the writer's purpose?
4. What does the writer hope to achieve?
5. What topic has the writer decided to write about?
6. How broad is the topic?
7. What situation created the need for the argument?
8. At what points in the argument does the writer appeal to logic?
9. To emotion?
10. How does the writer try to establish his or her credibility?
11. What is the argument's thesis?
12. Where is it stated?
13. Why?
14. How does the writer organise the argument?
15. How effective is this arrangement of ideas?
16. What evidence does the writer use to suport the argument?
17. Does the writer use enough evidence?
18. Does the writer use similes, metaphors, and allusions?
19. Does the writer use parallelism, repetition, and rhetorical questions?
20. Given your analysis, what is your overall assessment of the argument?

Final essay outline

Essay should be at least 4 pages long and in MLA format. Also, it can be written in 1st person. I will attempt to cite references in the textbook.