English 151-034 Short Assignment #3: Rhetorical Analysis Assignment 10%
Due: Thursday, Nov. 7 Word Length: 750 words minimum; 1000 words maximum No one will be allowed to make up this assignment without a credible
explanation for the absence and acceptable documentation to support that explanation.
Instructions: Rhetoric: language designed to have a persuasive effect on its audience,
through the use of the Rhetorical Triangle: Logos (logic/evidence), Pathos (emotion/values), and Ethos (credibility/authority).
Rhetorical Analysis asks you to explain to your reader how the writer communicated their essays content using the Rhetorical Triangle, with assessments of how effective or ineffective the writer was in his rhetoric.
The Rhetorical Analysis Assignment asks you to choose one of the two essays and write a 750-word long rhetorical analysis of it.
The question your essay must answer and explain: Do you think the author sufficiently supports his argument using appeals to the Rhetorical Triangle?
Choose ONE of the essays listed below to write your essay about: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Insulting Colin Kaepernick says more about our
patriotism than his, The Washington Post Andrew Cohen, Olympics are an antidote to our culture of phoniness,
The Calgary Herald
Formatting Guidelines: 1. Write 5 complete paragraphs for a total of 750-1000 words. 2. Identify the title of the reading and the author by their full name in your
introduction paragraph. Put the readings title in quotation marks. Subsequently, you do not have to refer to the full title, and you can refer to the author by their last name only.
3. Provide textual evidence (direct quotes, paraphrases, summaries) from your chosen essay to clearly and directly support your conclusions.
4. Integrate your quotes grammatically into your sentence structure. 5. Format your document correctly according to your chosen citation style. 6. Provide in-text citations that are correctly formatted according to your
chosen citation style. 7. Provide a bibliography of your sources, even if this is only the original
essay, formatted according to your chosen citation style.please follow the instructions to write a essay








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