Today, you learned how to complete a rhetorical analysis planning guide step by step, from identifying the rhetorical situation to analyzing devices and effects. Reflect on one step of the rhetorical analysis process that helped you understand the process more clearly. Explain what you learned during that step and how it improved your ability to analyze a speaker’s message.

Prompt: Today, you learned how to complete a rhetorical analysis planning guide step by step, from identifying the rhetorical situation to analyzing devices and effects. Reflect on one step of the rhetorical analysis process that helped you understand the process more clearly. Explain what you learned during that step and how it improved your ability to analyze a speaker’s message.

Prompt Response: The step that allowed me to understand the rhetorical analysis process easier has to be the brainstorming part of it all. The flow chart on the outline was the point in which I had to bring everything together, including the selection of my three topics to talk about on my essay. Without this step, I believe I would be pretty lost on the actual writing day, as I would have to come up with the reasons for my rhetorical appeals/devices on the spot.

Summary: Today in class we discussed the outline for our rhetorical analysis essays.

Reflection: I'm getting a bit more nervous about writing the essay on Thursday. Tomorrow after my calculus test I will probably look over my outline one more time before studying for my AP U.S. History exam.

 

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