Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Rhetorical analysis blog assignment
As I mentioned in class today, I'd like you to just look at one news article for your rhetorical analysis blog post. Focusing on one article will allow you to do a closer reading of the text. Read closely and look at the rhetorical moves the author is making to frame the event s/he is referring to. There is no set formula for this analysis, but from our experience with the Bush speech, you can look at such things as:
- ethos (both the author's and how s/he passes ethos on to the people s/he describes)
- pathos
- logos
- how the author involves the reader(s)
- how the author sets up sides in his/her framing of the event
- what words are particularly loaded or powerful (remember "murdered" from Clarke)
- what poetic devices the authors uses (like the pauses in the Bush speech)
// posted by advee @ 9:07 AM 
