Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis
- triangle |
- tone |
- social |
- situational |
- rhetorical analysis |
- questioning |
- persuasive |
- pathos |
- media |
- logos |
- Bitzer |
- implication |
- guidelines |
- genre |
- first day |
- exigence |
- ethos |
- emotion |
- contextual |
- constraint |
- audience |
- argumentation |
- advertisement analysis
Chapter Description
Students are digital natives who spend their days saturated in rhetorical messages that they have learned to decode quite well – for example, they can easily size up an instructor within moments of walking into the classroom. As students look at various messages from fashion advertising to political campaigning, they often decode and make sound rhetorical conclusions about these messages. This chapter helps students understand the rhetorical skills they already possess, transfer these skills to classroom projects, and become familiar with basic terms of rhetorical analysis used in the academy.
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