In Segment 2 you will introduce students to a variety of rhetorical terms and concepts through a variety of readings. Students will use information literacy and research skills to find and evaluate an authoritative source (such as a scholarly article) on a particular topic. You will teach students how to do a rhetorical analysis and then students will write a rhetorical analysis paper on the source they selected.
Faculty Guides for Elements of Rhetoric
Critical Analysis Question Guides
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Ethos (Reading Critically)
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Applying Ethos to Your Own Writing
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Ethos Voice and Rhetorical Distance (Reading Critically)
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Ethos Voice and Rhetorical Distance (Writing Craft)
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Kairos
- Critical Analysis Question Guide: Visual Rhetoric
Critical Analysis Student Examples
- Critical Analysis Student Example: Critical Reading "YouTube vs. Boob Tube"
- Critical Analysis Student Example: Critical Reading of New York Times "YouTube"
- Critical Analysis Student Example: "From Pencils to Pixels"
- Critical Analysis Student Example: "The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity"
- Critical Analysis Student Example: Visual Rhetoric
Annotating (Student Samples)
- Inaugural Address (President Barack Hussein Obama)
- "Ethical Proof: Arguments from Character"
- "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technology"
- "Google is Said to Set Sights on YouTube"
- "The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity" (pp.1-9)
- "The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity" (pp.10-15)
- "YouTube vs. Boob Tube"
