Write a partial rhetorical analysis that recognizes, defines, and analyzes audience and purpose.
Choose one of these to analyze:
“Terrors” by Kiese Laymon (an excerpt from Heavy: An American Memoir)
“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell
“Letter to My Son” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant” by David Graeber
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”
-Analyze these two parts of the rhetorical situation: audience and purpose.
– In one paragraph, make a claim about who the audience is meant to be and why you think so. Provide evidence from the text to support your claim. Explain your evidence. Your paragraph should be arranged like this: Claim>Evidence>Explanation.
– In a second paragraph, make a claim about what the purpose or goal is.
– In other words, you are answering two questions about this text:
• What is the purpose or goal of this text?
• Who is the audience(s)?
