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| 6637582466 | Introduction: First Sentence | credentials, first and last name, type of text, title of text, strong verb, subject | 0 | |
| 6637590292 | Introduction: Second Sentence | writer's last name, purpose | 1 | |
| 6637593539 | Introduction: Third Sentence | tone, in order to, audience | 2 | |
| 6637599153 | Introduction Example | Well-known essayist and writer, Joan Didion, in her essay, "The Santa Ana," interprets the dramatic mood altering effects of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior. Didion uses varied sentence structure and picturesque diction to achieve her purpose of impressing upon readers the idea that the winds themselves change the way people act and react. She creates a dramatic tone in order to convey the sinister winds and their inescapable effects. | 3 | |
| 6637610170 | Body: First Sentence | Identify section of text you are analyzing and the main idea of that section | 4 | |
| 6637617810 | Body: Second Sentence | Convey the writer's support for the main idea by identifying and providing a specific example for one rhetorical strategy used by the writer. If needed, this format will be repeated to discuss another rhetorical strategy in that section. | 5 | |
| 6637622296 | Body: Third Sentence | Explains how the rhetorical strategies you discussed in the previous sentences help the writer achieve his purpose by using an in order to statement | 6 | |
| 6637624526 | Body: Fourth Sentence | Identifies the effect of the writer's use of these rhetorical strategies on the audience. | 7 | |
| 6637626355 | Body Example | Reagan begins his tribute to the Challenger astronauts by acknowledging that the shuttle accident has appropriately postponed his planned State of the Union address and by expressing the depth of his and his wife's personal grief. He appeals to the mournful emotions of the audience by admitting that he and Mrs. Reagan are pained to the core" (3), that today is rightfully a "day for mourning and remembering" (2-3), and that the accident is "truly a national loss" (4). He joins in this time of mourning in order to unify the nation and humbly admit that "we share this pain with all of the people of our country" (4). This outpouring of emotion from the president conveys a conciliatory tone that reassures the nation that their grief is both warranted and proper. | 8 | |
| 6637638639 | Conclusion | You can and should return to former ideas, but present them from a different angle. Perhaps show the combined effect of the writer's ideas in a rhetorical analysis. Be brief, clear, and concise. | 9 |
