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Purpose:
The only way to understand rhetorical criticism, how to apply it to analyze other texts, and how to use the knowledge of rhetoric to produce messages is to conduct criticism of your own.
You will complete one analyses of the same text (selected by the text justification). Each analysis must be unique and use a method designated by those available to choose from for each crit.mpoxk only one from below
Crit 1: Cluster, Fantasy-Theme, or Generic
Crit 2: Ideological, Metaphoric, Narrative, or Pentadic
Each mini criticism is more like a lab report than an argumentative essay. You cannot do these appropriately unless you glean your text for the data appropriate to the specific method chosen. Once you collect the data and identify what’s relevant, only then do you start to think about and interpret what that data means concerning rhetoric.
Process:
Your paper should be 2400 words.
1. Start by picking your method – be familiar with its focus and what it allows you to see in a text.
2. Next, conduct a literature review of rhetorical academic articles on the text and method.
3. Code your text/artifact by applying the method to see what you might have to analyze.
4. Interpret your coding using guidance from your method (what you can see) and past literature (what’s already been seen generally or more specific to this text).
5. Based on what you think you have gleaned from coding, develop your research question.
6. Outline the findings section, identifying the themes that you derived from the interpretation of coding.
7. Outline your discussion section, identifying the different ways you intend to answer the RQ and what data from the findings you need to support that answer.
8. Write the paper in this order: Description (RQ at end), Method, Findings, Discussion, Intro.
Each must have the following sections, labeled as such:
Introduction (not necessary to label this section)
– No more than ~10% of the paperwork-250-260 words
– Provide a clear thesis for the paper that is a declarative version of the research question.. make it brief
– Provide a clear preview of the paper.
Description of Artifact
– This should be very brief and only include what’s absolutely necessary to understand the text related to the analysis.
– This section should end with your explicit research question.
– Research question should be structured to focus on what we can answer about rhetorical theory more generally, not specific to the artifact/text.
Literature Review
– 25% of the paper
– Build argument for study
– Present background of what’s beeen studied relevant to your project
– start general and move to more specific. Use subsections
– Literature must be about rhetoric minimum of five per reviewed resources,
Your text does not count
-RQ goes at the end of the Lit Review, Your reader should understand why
You are asking the RQ
Methods
– This is a methods class. This section should be very well developed.
– You must include the following elements fully fleshed out as their own ideas.
o Background/theory of the methods (cite the text at minimum)
o Explanation of the general process the method requires
o Explain how you applied the general process to your text/analysis.
– Define your terms and the process as if someone not taking this class is reading the paper.
Findings
– This is the longest or second longest section of your paper.
– Provide tables/charts to represent the data you collected and how you organized it.
– Provide prose to present/describe the data and the evidence from the text that demonstrates the data and its relevance.
– Organize this section using subsections that present/organize the data.
– Use external academic rhetorical literature to supplement what you found.
Discussion
– This is the longest or second longest section of your paper.
– This is not a “conclusion.”
– Immediately return to the explicit research question.
– The Discussion section should function to answer your research question.
– The answers to your research question must be explicitly supported by the data in your findings. Elaborate on the connection – why do the findings demonstrate/support this answer?
– Answers to the RQ should not be simple – in-depth and elaborated with relationship to rhetoric. Not just the text.
– Use external academic rhetorical literature to supplement what you found.
Conclusion
Very brief
Review your objective and summarize findings.
