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.