Letter to Birmingham rhetorical essay
A Rhetorical Analysis is when you try and Analysis the Rhetorical process of a piece of writing or a speech. You try and understand HOW someone wrote it, WHY they wrote it, WHAT their agenda is and IF it is effective or not. You are CRITIQUING them, you are JUDGING them.
Rhetorical Analysis can work Two ways. You can Analysis WHAT they say in the speech, the claims they make and the intentions behind them or you can Analysis HOW they are making their claims, the Proofs they use and how they are trying to Appeal to their Audience. Many times, writers tend to do both in a paper.
This is an Argumentative essay style because you A) have to have a claim about what they are doing Rhetorically and B) you are trying to convince the reader that your claim, what you think they did Rhetorically is correct.
What do you look at when you try to Analysis a speech rhetorically?
-The Situation.
-Historical context.
-The Speaker/Author
-The Speaker/Author’s intentions
-The Audience
-The Text
-The Message.
-How the Logos, Ethos, and Pathos are working in the Speech.
This assignment needs to be at least 4 pages in MLA format. This will count as a Formal grade.Your Work Cited Page doesn’t count as one of the 4 pages. The is no limit to the sources you can use for this paper. You are allowed to use all the documents anyway you see fit and you are allowed to research.
