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Question: Write reposed to the question below besed on the article attached down below. Author: Who is the author of this text? What are the author's credentials and what is his or her investment in the issue?
Context: What topic/conversation is this text responding to? What year is the text published? What is the exigence--that is, what motivating occasion/issue/concern prompted the writing? The motivating occasion could be a current or historical event, a crisis, pending legislation, a recently published alternative view, or another ongoing problem.
Argument and Purpose: What do you believe is the main claim/idea/argument that the author is trying to communicate? What stance does s/he take? Why do you think the author wrote the text? What do you think the author hopes to accomplish?
Support: How is the argument supported? Types of support include reasons and logical explanations as well as evidence. Types of evidence include anecdotes, examples, hypothetical situations, (expert) testimony, quotes, citing sources, statistics, research the author or another source conducts, scientific or other facts, general knowledge, historical references, metaphors/analogies, etc.
Text: What can you find out about the publication? What is the genre of the text (e.g., poem, personal essay, essay, news/academic article, blog, textbook chapter, etc.)? How do the conventions of that genre help determine the depth, complexity, and even appearance of the argument? What information about the publication or source (magazine, newspaper, advocacy Web site) helps explain the writer's perspective or the structure and style of the argument?
Audience: Who is the author's intended audience? What can you infer about the audience (think about beliefs and political association but also age, class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, profession, education, geographic location, religion, etc.)? Look for clues from the text (especially the original publication) to support your inference.
Rhetorical Strategies: What aspects of this text stand out for you as a rhetorical reader? In other words, what do you observe about what the author strategically does (consciously or not) in hopes of appealing to his or her audience? List here as many observations as you can make about what the text does.
Citation: Add the correct MLA or APA bibliographic entry for this text. Use easybib.com if you prefer.
Response: What does this text make you feel or think about? What resonates with you, if anything, and why? What bothers/concerns you, if anything, and why? What questions, if any, do you have?