College Composition / Unit 28 CMP 0676 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Rhetorical Analysis Does
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The idea
Rhetorical analysis examines how a text tries to persuade its audience: the strategies it uses and how well they work.
In practice
Rhetoric is the craft of persuading through writing or speaking, and analysis breaks a text into its parts to see how each contributes.
Where people slip
The question is always how and how well, not only what the text says.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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