Writing Homework Help

Directions

For this particular assignment, track down an environmental documentary of your own choosing, and there are plenty of great ones. You might want to consider one of the following:

• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
• A Plastic Ocean (2016)
• Chasing Coral (2017)
• Cowspiracy (2014)
• GMO OMG (2013)
• More Than Honey (2013)
• Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (2017)
• The Cove (2009)
• The Islands and the Whales (2016)
• To the Ends of the Earth (2016)

After watching the documentary, you will analyze the ways in which the writers use such rhetorical appeals as attitudes and tones; ethos, pathos, logos; music and visual elements. You should discuss where and why their logic, techniques, and devices work while maybe others do not work. Although you are analyzing argument in this paper, you will eventually make your own argument in support of whether or not the documentary effectively accomplishes the writers’ goals.