Reference no: EM132324376

Compose a one-paragraph rhetorical analysis of Stephen Marche's "Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids" (which is linked to below). The purpose of your analysis is to identify one of the more important rhetorical appeals (ethos OR logos OR pathos, not two of them, not three of them) the author employs in order to achieve his purpose with his audience. This paragraph, if done effectively, will be lengthy, probably in the 400-500-word range. Yes, that is long, but paragraphs in academic writing tend to be long. The idea is that you begin with a claim, offer examples to support that claim, and analyze each example to show how it supports your claim--so this will take a good deal of words to accomplish. You will apply the MEAL Plan to guide the development and structure of your analysis.

Click Here to open Marche's "Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids"

Requirements:

Formatted to MLA Guidelines

Here is a link to Purdue's Writing Lab website with the details of how to format to MLA guidelines:

Fit into One Paragraph

400-500 words long (or longer if needed to bring readers to your conclusion)

Saved and posted as a DOC or DOCX file

Applies the MEAL Plan:

MAIN IDEA: Begin with a topic sentence that

names the author or speaker

names the title of the article or speech

identifies the audience

identifies ONE rhetorical appeal that the paragraph will analyze

identifies the purpose that the rhetorical appeal helps the author or speaker achieve

For example: In her Parents magazine article "The Life and Times of a Blueberry," Harper Oxford gains credibility and trust from from parents by accurately and fairly representing ideas she opposes and by providing a number of credible sources to persuade readers to stop wasting food.

Notice that this example names the author, the article title, the appeal that will be analyzed (two aspects of ethos), and the author's purpose.

EXAMPLES: Provides readers three representative (that means, "best") examples of the rhetorical appeal identified in the topic sentence

ANALYSIS: Analyzes each example to show

(a) how exactly it works as an appeal to whatever appeal your topic sentence presents

(b) what role that example plays in the author's or speaker's overall purpose (which you identified in the topic sentence)

Applies the quotation sandwich to introduce and quote examples

Uses transitions and other guideposts to create a flow of ideas. Crafts the paragraph in such a way that the flow of ideas, from first sentence to last, is never impeded, in such a way that readers never pause to figure out where they are and how they got there.

Applies the rules of Edited American English.