Lindsay Holmes’s “A Quick Lesson On What Trigger Warnings Actually Do” is a persuasive piece written in response to the backlash that The University of Chicago received against implementing trigger warnings for their students. Likewise, Holmes sets up her argument in the hopes of persuading the general population the importance of creating safe zones and use trigger warnings for those who need them. In order to do this, Holmes uses a series of rhetorical devices throughout her essay to develop her…

In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” written by Gerald Graff, Graff target college students to inform them about a hidden intellectualism that can be found in our everyday society. In the article Graff draws attention to the many types and ways different people can identify with intellectualism. He argues that people are intelligent in several ways and just need to learn how to plug the intellectualism they enjoy into a school-like setting during classes. He exemplifies this by using his own intellect…

Danny Reyes Professor Crane RWS100 28 September 2015 Rhetorical Analysis of “Public Thinking” Journalist, Clive Thompson in his book, “Smarter Than You Think”, specifically in the chapter titled, “Public Thinking”, published on September 12, 2013, addresses the topic of technology and argues that because of the internet, we are doing more writing now than ever. Therefore technology is helping us think publicly in new and improved ways. He supports this claim by asserting that there is an improvement…

carefully and deliberately constructed through the proper use of five rhetorical strategies. Word Choice, Sentence Structure, Overt Statements, Figurative Language, and Selection and Omission of Details are the strategies used by writers to create the angle of vision. To understand these strategies I have written two paragraphs that are similar in description yet carry vastly different angles of vision. The first rhetorical strategy I used in my paragraphs is word choice. Word choice is the intentional…

piece of good writing requires close attention to a rhetorical situation, genre, and an audience. Writing occurs within a rhetorical situation and is made up of a speaker, a subject, an audience, and the context (genre). Each of these criteria builds on one another to make a piece of writing. The speaker or writer can choose what form of text or genre he/she wants the audience to get out of the context. Genre and the audience make up a rhetorical situation. The genre and audience both rely on each…

The Squint and the Wail Rhetorical Analysis “The Squint and the Wail” is an essay by Michael Hsu. Hsu, a Taiwanese American author and editor, wrote this essay in order to express his views on the negative connotations that occur with some of the racially charged objects present in society. More specifically, the essay deals with the stereotypical nature of The Chin Family. The Chin Family is the name of Stefano Giovannoni’s tabletop collection, which includes salt and pepper shakers that have…

Rhetorical Analysis: President Ronald Reagan 's Farwell Address Rhetorical Analysis: Reagan 's Farwell Address Ronald Reagan 's Farewell Address was an amazing example of conveying the fundamentals for freedom through an emotional and visual lesson. It is no wonder that the president known as the "great communicator" was successful in painting for us a picture of who we were, past and present, and the improvements in the areas of strength, security…

Introduction A rhetorical analysis assignment is to see how an author tries to present his work to a certain group of people. There is present certain meaning in all the texts and it is up to the author to communicate it in the required way. The purpose of this assignment was to review the article and see how the author made use of different strategies. It appears that a major aim that the author had was trying to convince the readers about revenue based financing. The author made use of several…

w Haley ELC 754 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Critical Analysis of The Hidden Leader: Leadership Lessons on the Potential Within Prior to the school year starting my wife shared with me an article she read regarding five characteristics of successful business people. One area she shared stuck with me as something I have not incorporated enough in my adult life. We all make excuses for how busy we are and how we do not have time in our life to add something else even if it may…

excellent information on key points we should keep in mind while writing. The first article we discussed was The Rhetorical Square, which provided advice about four key points. The four key points were, Purpose, Audience, Message and Voice. “The rhetorical square is simply a method to remind us that both as readers and writers, we need to be conscious of the art of writing” (The Rhetorical Square 2). The next article we discussed in class was Intellectual Standards for Critical Thinking and Writing…