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Look at the readings we have done this quarter, and choose one reading upon which to write an evaluative position paper, in which you will analyze the rhetorical effectiveness of the author. Your essay should be controlled by a central idea (i.e. you must have a thesis) and should be developed by discussing specific examples of effective writing techniques used by the author. Your essay should establish the effectiveness of the author’s writing and why it is effective for a specific audience (i.e. their original audience, which may be academic, popular, middle class, primarily male or female, etc.). Your essay will be evaluated on the basis of your ability to develop your central idea(your thesis) and to take a position that you defend, to express yourself clearly, to come up with persuasive and detailed evidence, and to use the conventions of written English.The topic has no single “correct” response.
Remember to be as specific as possible in giving supportive detail and evidence to backup your argument, including specific examples and moments from your selected text, and analysis of those moments. The evidence you use will be direct quotations from the reading, as well as reference to specific incidents in the reading. This assignment will make use of the close reading skills we have discussed in class.
I strongly suggest beginning with a clear outline for your paper, in which you label the different writing techniques the author uses effectively (these are the topics of your body paragraphs) and then collect quotes that demonstrate that effectiveness under each topic.
Each body paragraph should begin and end with an argumentative claim about the author’s effectiveness with this technique, in relation to their original, specific audience. This means that you must think hard about the choices they have made as anauthor and why they would be effective for that specific type of reader (be careful: youare not evaluating its effectiveness for you, personally!).
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RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY DEATH IN VENICE BY MIKE
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A read through the short story shows what can be termed as a need to tell the story of a
neighborhood wallowing in poverty and gang membership. It is challenging to say for the fact
that the short story was aimed at a particular audience, but there is an inherent need to inform the
external world, those beyond the borders of Venice on the dangers that the neighborhood was
facing because of gang membership. The working of the essay is to show how systematic failure,
both from the society and the government have all played a role in creating a situation of anarchy
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and lawlessness. It is the inclination of a culture where the norm has been diluted and brought to
low levels such that drug abuse, child labor, crime, homicides and even prostitution among other
unspeakable societal ills have found a fertile breeding ground, and with the full awareness of the
people who could change the situation. Death in Venice is not a story, it is an account of people
who have institutionalized lawlessness, and amorality seems to b the defining perspective of this
society. The essay intends to try and analyze the techniques that try and communicate these
aspects and to show how the members of the society have utterly failed in this regard, and this
could explain the lack of any parameter to explain and understand morality or immorality, hence
the amorality.
The children in the short story seem to lack, nay, la...
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