562660 (Editing Sample)

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Module 2 Assignment Prompt Background and Purpose By now, you have seen the benefits of reading actively. Being able to read actively helps you make decisions about what to do with things you read and how to interpret an author’s ideas. For this assignment, your job is to explore the rhetorical situation surrounding a specific text by explaining the scene in which the text functions, identifying how and why the text came to be. You will show your ability to look beyond the content of the text and into the intentions of the author/rhetor and the expectations of the audience. Compose a writing in which you DISCUSS (not just name) each of the following rhetorical elements in Alice Wong’s “The Last Straw”: rhetor, audience, exigence, constraints, context, text, and the rhetorical appeals used in it. You will find the reading in the Achieve e-Book. Because this assignment is designed to check whether you understand the elements of rhetorical situations and can identify them in a text, keep your response brief, but clearly supported. Include enough information to show that you see how the elements of the rhetorical situation interact within the text and enhance your understanding of it. Objectives Read the essay actively Consider the effect intended by an author Separate rhetorical elements from content Demonstrate understanding of the vocabulary of rhetoric Procedure 1. As you outline/plan your writing, compose the thesis statement and topic sentences for it, and identify each of the elements of the rhetorical situation in which the text was created: rhetor, context, exigence, audience, constraints, text, as well as the rhetorical appeals used in it. The order of these elements in your writing is not necessarily that listed in the sentence above; however, keep in mind that specific elements should appear in your discussion prior to others. For example, it would not make sense to open with the rhetorical appeals before your audience is introduced to the text where these appeals are used, just as it would not make sense to exclude the discussion of the context, rhetor, and exigence from the opening sections of your writing. 2. Get more specific. For each item on your outline/list, include its definition in your own words and description that is more like a brief paragraph and less like a sentence or two, which also means that you will have at least as many paragraphs in your writing as there are elements of the rhetorical situation, possibly more. As an example, a rhetor could be, “Walt Mossberg.” But a more relevant and helpful content in this section of your discussion would be, “Walt Mossberg is the rhetor and former principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal for twenty-two years, creator of the modern technology-product review. His decades of experience writing about consumer products makes him an authority when evaluating this latest product launch.” Be sure to include plenty of quotations from the essay to support your discussion of each element. 3. Consider what you discovered about the essay by completing this rhetorical analysis. What do you now understand that you didn’t catch the first time you read the text? Add this brief concluding reflection to your writing, explaining the value of performing this kind of analysis. Title this portion of the assignment “Mini Reflection” and include it at the end of your written document. 4. This is the assignment to undergo the peer review in Module 3, so please, make sure that you submit it into Module 2 Assignment as well as Module 3 Discussion at the same time. source..

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Rhetorical Analysis Assignment Student’s Name University Course Professor Date Rhetorical Analysis Assignment Rhetorical elements are the components that make up a rhetorical situation. On the other hand, the rhetorical situation is how the text, the exigence, constraints, context, and audience interact with each other to produce an effect on the reader. In Alice Wong's "The Last Straw," there are at least six elements that make up this rhetorical situation. These elements are vividly described in the following text. Alice Wong’s “The Last Straw” is a piece of writing that uses the rhetorical appeals of the author to convince her audience to take action. The audience for this piece of writing are those who are interested in this topic and who want to understand more about it. They might be people who work in the same industry as Alice Wong or people who share her interests. It is important for Alice Wong to convince her audience that they need to make changes in their lives because they are contributing to pollution by using straws (Matthews, 2019). She will also argue against those who say that we need straws because they are convenient and easy to use. There are many constraints on Alice Wong’s ability to make an impact on her audience. For example, she does not have a lot of time available because she has other responsibilities such as taking care of her children and making money for them by working outside the home. However, she does try hard by using all of her creativity and knowledge about environmental issues so that she can convince her audience (Da San Martino et al., 2020). Alice Wong has been successful in convincing her audience to join the cause by effectively using a professional tone. She shows her wonderful knowledge of environmental issues so that she can convey why the cause is important and what she's advocating for. Mini-Reflection In "The Last Straw," Alice Wong uses a rhetorical situation to create a sense of urgency. She does this by creating an exigence for the reader to feel, and then having her audience experience that exigence. The result is a text that's highly engaging and well-written. The exigence is created through the use of rhetorical appeals. Rhetorical appeals are used to make the reader feel like they have been personally affected by what they are reading—that they are experiencing the same thing as the characters in the story (Gielow, 2019). This can be accomplished by using rhetoric that speaks directly to their emotions, such as pathos or ethos. The author uses a first-person narrative to tell the story of her own experience in dealing with these issues, as she tries to find a way to recycle her own straws. She uses several rhetorical appeals throughout the text (Afzal & Hassan, 2021). For instance, she uses Exigence when describing how much trouble she had finding a place to recycle her straws in before getting them replaced with biodegradable ones. She expresses this appeal by stating that "It was hell trying to find a place where I could get rid of my old plastic straws." In the case of context, the author u...

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