Writing Homework Help

Part 1 Mini-rhetorical analysis of two articles

Write a healthy paragraph analyzing the rhetoric of each of the two opinion pieces you have chosen (one paragraph for each). Together, the two mini-rhetorical analyses should total at least 500 words.

– purpose behind the piece and if the author is successful or not

– kinds of reasoning used

– summary

– fallacies

– appeals

– use of language and tone

Part 2 Writing a Journal with the question

1. What was your experience of doing the homework?

2. What sites did you visit? How did you pick them? What did you notice about the sites you picked?

3. How did you pick a news story to focus on? Was it hard to find one that was covered on multiple sites? What did you notice about the stories featured on various news sites?

4. What about finding a “neutral” article? How did you know it was neutral? How did you go about finding the opinionated articles? Howdid you know they were opinionated?