Prompt:
After watching Dr. Cheryl Holder’s TED Talk “The Link Between Climate Change, Health, and Poverty,” you will rhetorically analyze the video by identitying ano evaluating its appeals.
Organize your thoughts and write a 3-4-page double-spaced essay that:
1) demonstrates you understand the appeals.
2) evaluate it the appeals persuaded a Miami-Dade audience to support her central argument.
Tips:
• Map out all four appeals from the video to help you prepare your essay.
• Find direct quotes from the video to use as evidence in your body paragraphs.
• Consider how each quote or example from the article persuaded the Miami-Dade audience to side with Dr. Holder.
• Do not simply identify which appeals are used in the video.
lips:
• Map out all four appeals from the video to help you prepare your essay.
• Fino direct quotes from the video to use as evidence in your body paragraphs.
• Consider how each quote or example from the article persuaded the Miami-Dade audience to side with Dr. Holder.
• Do not simply identify which appeals are used in the video.
o You need to juoge it these appeals persuade the audience to believe Dr.
Holder’s main argument.
• Use the sample essay as a model for your work.
quotes, words, or ideas yn the sample
essay = plagiarism.
• You can use Al to help you understand the
TED Talk or organize your arguments.
• Do not use Al to generate your work or analysis, as this is plagiarism.
Helpful Resources
• Deep Dive: Ethos Youlube Lecture
• Deep Dive Loges Youtube Lecture
• Deep Dive: Kairos Youlube Lecture
• Rhetorical Analysis Exolained – Blinn College
Final Draft Checklist
All essays must conform to the MLA style of writing to be accepted/graded.
Follow the “Academic Writing Rules” when composing your essay.
Use the “Blank Essay” template to ensure you use the correct format/heading for your essay. See the “Essay Templates and Files” folder in Blackboard for this document.
Spellcheck and proofread your work with Grammarly to ensure the fluency of your writing.
Cover the required length and matter of the essay (3 – 4 pages.)
Only use direct quotes when citing the primary text.
The essay has a thesis that answers the prompt and argues a particular point of contention.
The writer identifies and evaluates appeals in the body paragraph to support the thesis.
Do not reference or cite any outside sources in your work, including dictionaries or encyclopedias.
The essay is original work created solely by the writer and not AI.
Submitting late work will deduct half a letter grade from your overall score.
The essay is in Word doc. or docx. format to allow for plagiarism scanning and grading.
See the syllabus for deadlines and dropbox locations for each essay section.
Rubric
Structure, organization, and argument = 5 Points
Use/explanation of evidence to support the thesis = 5 Points
Spelling, grammar, and fluency = 5 Points
Total = 15 Point
