Learning Target: To develop a rhetorical analysis that links strategies to effect and writer's purpose.
Some things we discussed today:
- Be specific/precise in your intro/thesis--no EMPTY BROAD GENERALIZATIONS!
- Instead of an empty generalization, introduce your topic/subject with concrete language
- Remember the FUNNEL shape--moving from outside the book to your specific argument about the devices in your chosen chapter
- In the body of your paper: wed the strategies to the effect and purpose/theme. State it explicitly in your thesis and keep working towards it in your body paragraphs!
- After each textual detail, ask "so what?" multiple times to be sure you are deepening your discussion those details.
- Narrow your focus: Don't take on ALL of his diction, just the words that build a particular effect. Don't try to describe EVERY sentence, just characterize the ones you see connected to a particular purpose.
Here is a link to the student sample intro and some successful body paragraphs from the Momaday/Brown practice: RHETORICAL A. SAMPLE SENTENCES/PARAGRAPHS
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