For the final project, you will write about a 2,000-word final paper in which you will use one rhetorical method to analyze a text you choose. For the theoretical part, you choose any of the rhetorical approaches we have discussed this semester (ideological approach). For analysis , you can choose a speech, an episode from a TV show, series, or journalistic material (three editorials, three feature stories, or three pieces of hard news). You can choose something old or new, something scholars have written about or not, and/or something which is not controversial at all or too controversial. There are no taboos on the topic you choose. Just write a good research paper and do not worry about how sensitive or not the topic is. We still have some freedom in doing academic research.
1. An introduction in which you introduce the topic, write your thesis, explain why you are writing this paper, and an outline for the paper.
2. A discussion of the theoretical part in which you briefly discuss the theory and explain why you think it is useful to use this particular theory to discuss the text.
3. A discussion of the artifact (speech, episode, a movie) in which you highlight a particular rhetorical aspect and explain why it matters to understand it.
4. conclusion which restates the thesis you mention in the introduction, the limitations of your research, and how one can use your work to do further studies about the same theory or artifact.
5. list of references in APA style (no less than 7 reliable sources) and the eighth source must be our text book. (Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, 5th Edition)
Tips:
1. Use signal verbs
2. Use logical progression when moving from an idea to another or from paragraph to another.
3. Please organize your entire paper APA format. Formatting is not only for sources. It is for the entire paper
4. Please make sure that the paper is free or grammatical and spelling mistakes
5. Please write in standard English.
6. Even if you are using an ideological approach, do not turn your paper into a political platform. We are doing rhetocial criticism, not a political argumentation. I care about your skills not the pronouns you use.
7. Use he, she, they, it, or any pronoun that reflects your worldview.
8. Please remember to use formal style.
