1. Rhetorical Analysis
Day 2

2. Before you read Salesjerk, by Seth Stevenson on page 183, please click on the link below and watch the Shamwow commercial.
Afterward, read the aforementioned selection paying close attention to the annotations. This will help you organize your paper.

3. Get going on your rhetorical analysis
Find a text you want to analyze
Pick something you find intriguing.
Persuasive?
Not persuasive?
Historical?
Highlight the uses of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
Read and annotate
Identify the author’s uses of reasoning, credibility , or emotion
Research the context
Find out as much as you can about he author and the historical context in which he or she created the text
Use interviews or surveys to measure how others react to the text you are studying
Interview experts who know about this kind of text

4. Choose an appropriate style Design your analysis
Draft your analysis
Choose an appropriate style
Design your analysis
You may provide graphics or screen shots
For your presentation, you need to provide
Picture or screen shot of the advertisement
Captions of a speech or pictures/videos/audio of the speech when it was delivered
Video/commercial of an announcement
Revise and edit

5. How Obama Does That Thing He Does
Read the selection on pages
Answer the questions on page 188 in the “A Closer Look” section #s 1, 2, and 3.
This will serve as a model for your development of your rhetorical analysis
In other words, the questions are asking you to analyze the selection.

6. What’s a Girl to Read? Read the next selection found on pages 189-191.
Answer questions 1, 2, and 3 in the “A Closer Look” section on page 191.
This example is an analysis. You can use this as a model for yours.