Decide which text makes a more successful argument and defend your choice by considering the rhetorical choices that BOTH authors make.

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Rhetorical Analysis Essay of Opinion Article #1 or #2

Evaluates E06: Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Instructions

1) Make sure you have read Applebaum’s opinion article and the sample rhetorical analysis of it. Note that the writer of this analysis is critical of the rhetorical qualities of Applebaum’s opinion article. You may also be critical of the opinion article you choose to analyse but you may also choose to argue that the writer of the article has made an effective argument. The key thing is discuss how the writer deals with the rhetorical situation as determined by SOAPSTone. Which appeals does the writer make and which techniques does the writer use to support this type of appeal.

A few notes about how opinion articles differ from speeches in terms of rhetoric:

i) There is less emphasis on oratory techniques like parallelism with tricolon, epiphora and anaphora.

ii) There is more emphasis is on cultural allusions, anecdotes, rhetorical questions, evidence in the form of experts or statistics, comparisons, qualifications and counterarguments, problem solution and cause effect arguments.

iii) You will usually see a paragraph intended to deal with potential objections / counterargument.

iv) There will also often be colloquial language, meant to appeal to the average reader.

iv) At the end of an opinion article, there will often be a call to action.

2) Read the two opinion articles.

3) Copy the text of each article into a Google Doc and annotate both, completing SOAPStone and other notes.

4) Write a 500-700 word rhetorical analysis essay that addresses the following prompt:

Decide which text makes a more successful argument and defend your choice by considering the rhetorical choices that BOTH authors make. You may structure your essay however you wish but make sure you establish an effective line of reasoning.

In your response you should do the following:

•Respond to the prompt with a thesis that makes a claim about the prompt.

•Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.

•Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.

•Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation.

•Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.

5) Paste the shareable link by the deadline.

6) Revise based on my comments and if needed, resubmit your essay.

Discuss how implicit bias affects how we act in a subconscious way. Explain how implicit bias helped convict Adnan.

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Implicit Bias in Adnan’s Case

Implicit bias is a social cognition influenced by attitudes and stereotypes that we have been exposed to. Discuss how implicit bias affects how we act in a subconscious way. Explain how implicit bias helped convict Adnan.

Write a letter from Margaret to Walton reacting to his letters. Put yourself in Margaret’s shoes, imagining what her life back home in England must be like, and respond to Walton about his desire for knowledge and adventure, his affinity for Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and his loneliness, and compare and contrast your life with his.

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A letter from Margaret

Write a letter from Margaret to Walton reacting to his letters 1-4. Put yourself in Margaret’s shoes, imagining what her life back home in England must be like, and respond to Walton (you should quote from his letters) about his desire for knowledge and adventure, his affinity for Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (which you – both the real you and Margaret –have read too, so you should quote from that as well), and his loneliness, and compare and contrast your (that is, Margaret’s) life with his.

Write a essay about why is security more important than freedom.

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Essay

Is security more important than liberty? ‘The average man does not want to be free”  says the author. H.L. Menchen you should write a essay about why is security more important than freedom.

Write a literary analysis paper on the poems presented in the last page. Present both comparisons (similarities) and differences (contrasts) of the authors’ development of the themes of life and death.

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Literary analysis paper

You will write a literary analysis paper on the poems presented in the last page (5.1 Literary Analysis – Poetry). In your essay, you will present both comparisons (similarities) and differences (contrasts) of the authors’ development of the themes of life and death. Be sure to analyze tone, metaphor, simile, diction, style, and most importantly, the core meaning of the selections.

Develop your topic and argument logically and cohesively.
Your thesis should drive the content of your essay.
State specific examples of the literary techniques in your essay (for example, don’t just say the author uses a rhyme pattern to convey his message; be specific about how and why.)

 

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rage at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see the blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

By Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)

“Psalm of Life”

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream! –

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,–act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

 

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

Write a 1- to 2-page paper describing your perceptions of college writing as you enter the course. What has been your past experiences with college writing, if any? How do you perceive the role research plays in college writing?

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College writing

Write a 1- to 2-page paper describing your perceptions of college writing as you enter the course. What has been your past experiences with college writing, if any? How do you perceive the role research plays in college writing?

Discuss how implicit bias affects how we act in a subconscious way. Explain how implicit bias helped convict Adnan.

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Implicit Bias in Adnan’s Case

Implicit bias is a social cognition influenced by attitudes and stereotypes that we have been exposed to. Discuss how implicit bias affects how we act in a subconscious way. Explain how implicit bias helped convict Adnan.

What simile does the narrator use describing his return to consciousness? What does the narrator suggest by using this simile and subsequent description? As the narrator experiences fear, what techniques does Poe use to create suspense for the reader? 

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03.05 Fascination with Fear

3.05 Reading Journal

1. Poe describes the sensations of being buried alive. What imagery does Poe use to help you hear, see, smell, and feel?

2. The narrator suffers from catalepsy, a physical condition in which the individual cannot move or speak for hours or, in extreme cases, for months. According to the narrator’s explanation, what are some of the ways that one can tell a cataleptic is still living?

3. What simile does the narrator use describing his return to consciousness? What does the narrator suggest by using this simile and subsequent description?

4. As the narrator experiences fear, what techniques does Poe use to create suspense for the reader?

5. What is happening to the narrator here? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

6. The narrator describes one of his dreams. What happens and what is the significance?

7. How would you describe the narrator’s mental state? Are his actions rational?

8. What techniques does Poe use in the second paragraph to build suspense? What is the effect on you, the reader?

 

9. Based on the descriptions here, what has happened to the narrator?

10. How does changing sentence structure from long to short and choppy help build suspense? What emotions do you feel as you read?

11. What has happened? If you were the narrator, what would you feel hearing these voices?

12. The narrator explains how the circumstances of his night aboard the boat paralleled the circumstances of his worst fears. What are the similarities that he experiences?

13. The narrator undergoes a major change. What did the narrator do in light of his experience on the sailboat? Do you think his reaction is a typical one of someone facing their fears?

14. Think about the meaning of the last sentence. What is Poe saying in these final lines of his story?

What are the symptoms of stage fright? Discuss whether you have experienced it while speaking in public or have you witnessed someone going through a stage fright experience? What are the suggestions given by Mikael Cho to adapt to stage fright?

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Week One Discussion

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Overcoming Stage Fright

Fear, sweaty palms, and labored breathing are some real issues for many people ► when it comes to public speaking. This fear is manifested in the form of nervous and anxious feelings. However, most of the time, the audience is completely unaware or to a lesser degree of how nervous the speaker is.

Watch the TED-Ed video by Mikael Cho titled The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it) by using the below link:
https://www.ted.com/talks/mikael_cho_the_science_of_stage_fright_and_how_to_ overcome_it/transcript?language=en

Read the article “Rebrand Stage Fright to Overcome It” by Tori Rodriguez using the below link answer the questions given below.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rebrand-stage-fright-to-overcome-it/

• Why do we get stage fright?

• What are the symptoms of stage fright? Discuss whether you have experienced it while speaking in public or have you witnessed someone going through a stage fright experience?

• What are the suggestions given by Mikael Cho to adapt to stage fright?

• Have you had a stage fright moment? How did you handle the situation?

• Discuss some fear-reducing strategies that you would like to incorporate from the above mentioned resources as well as from Chapter 1, pages 9-11, on the approaches for squelching nervousness.

 

Analyse the development of divided loyalties as the key to understanding the role of one character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Analyse the development of divided loyalties as the key to understanding the role of one character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark