Rhetorical Concepts and Strategies

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Rhetoric

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The art of being a critical reader to find how a writer or speaker uses language to shape thoughts and actions in a situation.

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Analysis

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A detailed examination of something complex to understand its nature or determine its essential features.

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Rhetorical Analysis

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Explains how the rhetorical choices made by the author work to create the purpose of the text.

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Annotations

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Notes taken while reading a text, including rhetorical choices, shifts in tone, topic, or appeal.

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Rhetorical Choice

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The strategies an author uses to engage with the intended audience.

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Methods

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Capture the big picture of what is happening in each section of the text.

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Style

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An author's unique way of communicating with words.

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Embedding

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Quotations from sources should fit smoothly into your own sentences.

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Rhetorical Situation

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Speaker, audience, context, exigence, purpose.

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Speaker

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The person who composed the text you are reading.