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Essay Instructions: Complete a 4-5 page, typed, double-spaced, MLA-formatted paper that follows the directions given, below.
WRITING TASK:
Compose a rhetorical analysis of a New York Times editorial article found at the link below. This analysis will contain an argument about how the author of the article uses rhetoric to attempt to gain cooperation from his or her intended audience.
LINK: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/index.html Nothing older than January 2011. So any article from January 2011 to the present is okay.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Rhetorical Analysis can be defined as an effort to understand how people attempt to influence others through language and more broadly every kind of important symbolic action- speeches, articles, books, movies, television, songs. Use Rhetorical Features inventio, dispostio, pronuntiatia and decorum. Also uses of eths, pathos, logos and how does the author use these to effectively get his or her argument across to the reader. Rhetorical analysis ca be either contextual or textual. Please explain.
1)Describe briefly the argument, including where it was published, how long it is, and who wrote it. Supply the necessary background on the argument issue .
2)Analyze the content by deciding what motivated the author? What is his or her purpose for writing the argument? Who is the intended audience? Does author borrow and arguments or concepts from anything else they may have written?
3) What is the main claim?
Reasons to support this claim.
How is argument organized?
4)What are components, and why are they presented in the order?
Analyze the ETHOS. How does writer represent himself or herself? Does writer have credentials?
Analyze the LOGOS. Where do you find facts and evidence in the argument? Direct observation? Statistics? Interviews? Surveys?
Analyze the PATHOS. Des writer attempt to invoke an emotional response? Where do you find appeals to shared values?

CONCLUSION
Summarize and end with an example that typifies the argument. Strategy is to analyze the strategies used by the author.

LINK: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/index.html
Use any sources you ant and use MLA citation
NOTE: The article must be recent (January 2011 or thereafter). Please do not use an older article.

Essay Instructions: Assignment Information:
The goal of this assignment is for students to successfully identify and discuss rhetorical appeals (logos, pathos, and ethos) when analyzing a multimodal composition. During this unit, you have been developing your understanding of rhetoric and its place in the academic field. This paper provides you with a chance to articulate your comprehension of rhetorical principles and the use of persuasion in visual media.

In this assignment, you will need to identify and analyze the rhetorical appeals found within the selected movie trailer. Remember-we are NOT analyzing the film, just the trailer. You will only select ONE of the theatrical trailers on which you will base your analysis. It would be wise to select a trailer that interests you, since you will be reviewing it multiple times in order to create your composition.

The assignment for Unit 3 draws upon the critical techniques employed in Units 1 and 2 and culminates in your 3-4 page rhetorical analysis essay based upon the following criteria:

• Demonstrate how logos, pathos, and ethos employed by the creators of the trailer
• Create a clear and defensible thesis statement and support it throughout the analysis
• Describe the intended audience for the trailer (demographic)
• Discuss the effectiveness of the message presented in the trailer
• Explain how the music, dialogue, and special effects impact the trailer
• Address some specific design elements of the trailer using terms from your textbook and class lectures (for instance: balance, hue, saturation, brightness)
The movie trailer that I have selected is Prisoners, directed by Dennis Villeneuve and screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski.
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Essay Instructions: an essay analyzing and evaluating the use of ethos, pathos and logos in a full-page magazine advertisement of your choice. Begin by describing your Ad, then describe the intended audience for the advertisement, making sure to include a thesis statement that clearly states whether or not the appeals were effective in persuading the target. the body of this paper should clear examples of the appeals from the text/picture as well as a through explanation of how it work

Essay Instructions: This essay is about rhetorical artifact essay. I upload picture which is this essay should write. Three kind of rhetorical strategies:ethos, logos,invoking pathos. For the first idea about ethos, people should not go with the flow, we should insist our own point when we think that is correct. second, for invoking logos, when you choose your way which is hard, maybe nobody believe your are right, they will not help you, but you need keep doing this, ?no regrets?.You need believe yourself and trust you can success. Third, invoking pathos, when you do some alternative things or talk about an advanced concept, maybe people will give a special treatment for you, but you just treasure what you need to treasure and do not care about what other people say and think. maybe someday, people will understand your idea.