Outside Reading Assignment
Due Oct. 12, 2012
I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS ASSIGNMENT LATE – IF YOU’RE ILL, FIND A WAY TO GET IT HERE
Attach this handout to the front of your reading assignment.
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Rhetorical appeals: Explain the logos, pathos, and ethos for this book. You will definitely need to use quotes from the book that demonstrate logos and pathos, and then explain how they demonstrate those appeals. For ethos, you may use a quote or you can do a little research on the author to demonstrate how he or she has the credibility to write about that topic.
Rhetorical Triangle: (rhetor, audience, subject, context, intention, genre). Identify each element and discuss it briefly.
· Who is the rhetor? Why does the rhetor care about this topic? (Part of this is ethos)
· Who is the audience? Why do you identify this group as the audience? Why would this audience care about this topic? The answers to these questions don’t need to be long, but you do have to answer them in order to completely answer this question.
· Subject – what is it? Why is it important?
· Context – what was occurring that prompted the rhetor to write? What was the situation?
· Intention – what is the rhetor’s goal? Do you think he or she accomplishes it? Why?
· Genre – what is the genre. Why did the author choose that genre? Why is it more effective than some other genre?
Rhetorical strategies: identify three prominent strategies the author uses in his or her writing. Provide two good quotes as examples of each strategy. (imagery, diction, irony, symbolism, parallelism, antithesis, syntax. (Choose good examples – remember all writing or speaking has diction and syntax, but that doesn’t mean that all writing uses them effectively, and you want your examples to be effective.)
YOU MUST BE READING DAILY. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEGUN READING YOUR BOOK AROUND SEP 12TH , AND IF YOU HAVE BEEN READING DAILY, YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DIFFICULTY COMPLETING THE READING ASSIGNMENT.