Evaluate the text’s overall rhetorical effectiveness at achieving the author’s purpose based on the text’s context, audience, and use of appeals.
1. Choose and submit a piece or passage of persuasive writing that is authored by a different writer (e.g., a speech, a letter to the editor, or an essay) between 200-2,000 words in length. 2. Analyze your chosen text by doing the following: a. Summarize the text. b. Discuss the author’s purpose for the text. […]