Rhetorical Analysis

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Preparation

You are extremely prepared for this essay. We have spent quite a bit of time working closely with Jane Tompkins' complex argument,"Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History." In Module 2, you watched and took detailed notes on "Indians" and New Historicism, a brilliant lecture by Dr. David Nunnery. In addition, you used a critical reading strategy, Charting the Text, to understand her structure and major claim. In Module 3, you identified Tompkins' target audience, her kairos and exigence, as well as analyzed her use of appeals and the strategies she employs to achieve them. Finally, in Module 4 you studied induction and learned how and why Tompkins used it. Some of you may want to go back and review the work we have done to help you begin your essay. For this assignment, you will be pulling everything together to write a cohesive rhetorical analysis.

Instructions

Write a 4-6 page rhetorical analysis of Jane Tompkins' "Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History," using correct MLA Format & Style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Your essay should address each of the following (though you may alter the order):

  1. write an introduction that engages your reader on the subject of your paper: rhetoric.
  2. fully introduce and articulate Tompkins' major claim (use the Academic Meaty Sentence to make sure your introduction to her is complete) and summarize her argument, including her major claim and how she establishes kairos and exigence and make your major claim with regards to how persuasive her argument is for her intended audience;
  3. describe and explain Tompkins' use of inductive reasoning and how it affects her argument as a whole;
  4. identify, analyze, and evaluate her appeals to reasoning (logos), credibility (ethos), and emotions (pathos) and the strategies she uses to make them. Discuss all three appeals and at least two strategies per appeal--it is expected that you quote directly from the text to support your analysis, using correct MLA in-text citation.
  5. evaluate how persuasive Tompkins' argument is as a whole for her intended audience, academic peers who read Critical Inquiry.

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Paraphrase and quote from the text to support and illustrate your assertions.

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Name 1
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Rhetorical Analysis
All through the years, there has been disagreement concerning the actual events that
transpired between the early European settlers and native Indians. Nowadays, Indian societies are
rising to demand compensation for the gruesome activities performed on their ancestors by the
first European settlers although the facts o the case differ from one source to the other. Due to
this discourse, Jane Tompkins, a professor at Duke University sort to study the relationship
between the early settlers and wrote a journal; "‘Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the problem
of history" (Tompkins 101) where she examines various narratives regarding the issue to try and
define the actual events that occurred during the period.
The author begins by engaging in a critical inquiry (Nunnery), the process of evaluating
ideas from multiple sources, by studying the works of Miller, Vaughan, Jennings, and Martin.
The examination resulted in not only an epistemological but also a moral dilemma due to the
conflicting arguments and difference in context. She then resulted in analyzing captivity
narratives with the aim of determining, which case was correct since the stories recounted the
actual events that transpired during the period. However, the variance continued to grow thus
forcing her to result in relativism. Towards the end, her argument of perspective weakened her
efforts to define the actual events that transpired thus shifting the intention of the research.

Name 2
In the article "‘Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the problem of history," published by
the University of Chicago press in 1986, Jane Tompkins argues that it is important to appreciate
that particular interpretative frameworks motivate facts and guide the behavior of individuals.
She argues that perspective defined the historian's interpretation of the European-Indian
relationship. For instance, Peter Miller describes America as a vacant wilderness thus not
considering the native Indians living in the continent. In his narration of Congo, he states
"disconsolate on the edge of a jungle of central Africa (Tompkins 104), to have thrust upon me
the mission of expounding what I took to be the innermost propulsion of the United States, while
supervising, in that barbaric tropic, the unloading of drums of case oil flowing out of the
inexhaustible wilderness of America."
On the other hand, Vaughan argues that puritans are superior to the Indians and
concluded by explaining why the two communities could not co-exist thus contradicting his
previous statement explaining the unity between the two. Moreover, Jennings states that Puritans
were violent in their encounter with the Indians hence resulting in wars and death. However,
Martin reports that Indians engaged in spiritual matters in which they considered very important
(Tompkins 108). He further wen...


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