ESSAY REQUIREMENTS
Your final essay will demonstrate the skills for academic writing used in the
first essay and follow the organization and requirements for a rhetorical
analysis:
• Your introduction paragraph should engage your audience,
establish your credibility, and provide relevant information about
the rhetorical context of the article, including the author, title, and
purpose.
• Your thesis should be the last sentence of your introduction and
should clearly state your claim about the persuasiveness of the
article and reasons to support your claim.
• The first body paragraph should provide a summary of the article following the guidelines for
writing effective summaries (see p. 60 of A Writer's Reference: How to Write a Summary).
• The next four body paragraphs should analyze the rhetoric of the article. In some order, you must
analyze the writer's credibility (as established in the text itself, not in the headnote to the article),
the writer's emotional appeals, and the writer's logic. The order and organization of ideas are up to
you.
• You should provide support—both evidence and analysis—for every claim you make in the essay.
Use short quotations as evidence of your claims about the writer's rhetoric, and then thoroughly
explain the evidence and its significance (its effect on the audience and persuasiveness of the
argument).
• End with a conclusion that summarizes and synthesizes your essay (explains "so what").
• This is a formal essay; use Standard English grammar and third-person POV (do not use I, we, or
you.)
• The essay must be seven paragraphs (as specified above) and 1000-1250 words (not including the
Works Cited page). You should follow the formatting instructions in the syllabus and MLA
guidelines.
(REMEMBER: Analyze the writer's rhetoric!
Don't endorse (or criticize)
the writer or discuss your
position on the issues!)
 

Outline for Rhetorical Analysis
I. Introduction
a. Introduce article (writer, title, context/issue)
b. Thesis statement (should state what the writer argues and address the four rhetorical
appeals for your analysis, in the order you will talk about them)
II. 1st Body Paragraph - Summary of the Article
a. First sentence (writer, title, thesis)
b. Paraphrases of the main points of the article (with signal phrases and in-text citations
throughout)
c. Writer's conclusion
III. 2nd Body Paragraph
a. Topic sentence (rhetorical appeal and text)
b. Evidence (quotation from text)
c. Analysis
d. Significance (so what?)
IV. 3rd Body Paragraph
a. Topic sentence (rhetorical appeal and text)
b. Evidence (quotation from text)
c. Analysis
d. Significance (so what?)
V. 4th Body Paragraph
a. Topic sentence (rhetorical appeal and text)
b. Evidence (quotation from text)
c. Analysis
d. Significance (so what?)
VI. 5th Body Paragraph
a. Topic sentence (rhetorical appeal and text)
b. Evidence (quotation from text)
c. Analysis
d. Significance (so what?)
VII. Conclusion
a. Restate thesis (but not exactly as in introduction)
b. Consider implications, effects, or consequences of what you have said about the writer's
argument and persuasiveness
c. Evaluate how well you think the writer has presented his/her argument

 

The ESSAY in the picture should be used to meet the requirements .

 

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