San Diego State University The R Word Rhetorical Analysis

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Identify and provide a brief explanation of the author’s argument; identify two persuasive strategies that the author uses to support his or her argument and analyze how those strategies might persuade the reader to support the claim; discuss the assumption(s) on which the argument is based; and evaluate the extent to which the reader would find the argument convincing. Be sure to follow these directions carefully, rather than simply agreeing or disagreeing or writing an extensive summary of the article. Focus carefully on showing how the author uses rhetorical strategies to further their claims to their intended audience. Again, the best papers will account for this by sufficiently addressing audience presuppositions (i.e. assumptions). Requirement: This assignment should be composed in MLA format,

  1. Times new Roman font (12 point)
  2. Ensure you include page numbers in the headings
    (note that there’s no need to include a page number in the first page—only the subsequent ones)
  3. The work is double spaced.

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The Problem with the ‘R’ Word? A Muskogee/Creek Indian Explains It All For You:
Rhetorical Analysis
Former chairman of the Los Angeles city county/county Native American Indian
Commission, Jack Shakely, in his powerful short essay, ‘‘The problem with the ‘R’ word? A
Muskogee/Creek Indian explains it all for you,’’ illustrates racism expressed against
American Indians by the Whites (Shakely). Shakey's purpose is to appeal to the Whites to
abandon racist actions symbols (team logos) and names (Redskin), all of which have been
extensively used to discredit Indians. The author is making a call to the Whites to take action
towards eliminating anything that propagates racism against the American Indians. He adopts
rhetorical questions as well as an ethos to make a strong appeal to the Whites and persuade
them to drop racism against American Indians.
The author has, to a significant extent, employed rhetorical questions to try and
influence the audience towards accepting that racisms is evident against American Indians,
and something needs to be done again...


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