This week is really about finding some support for your paper and thinking about how to integrate that support into your writing. Although you have picked out rhetorical choices (BA#3), here you are looking to connect them to your thesis and to find places in the text that help support your argument (i.e. does the author effectively reach his/her audience through his/her use of these rhetorical choices?).
Remember, your thesis is saying that the writer is making rhetorical choices in order to make an argument. Therefore, your included quotations should be based on showing *HOW* these rhetorical choices are working on a specific audience, so avoid just picking a quote because it "sounds good." Instead, look to find quotes that show how these rhetorical choices are working to leverage the audience toward the author's purpose.
In other words: Everything should point to your thesis.
You can always look at the student samples in the back of the FYW textbook if you need some guidance.
BA5 Instructions via Raider Writer:
1. Begin by writing your working thesis at the top of your assignment.
2. Select a minimum of five quotations from the article that you will use as examples of particular rhetorical choices.
3. Write a brief assessment of why each quotation would be useful to you in composing your draft. Your assessment of each quotation should include your answers to the following questions:
- Where will this quotation fit in your organization?
- How does it demonstrate the points you are trying to make about the author's writing?
Your analysis, not counting the quotations, should be 500-650 words.
NOTE: You may find that in identifying and evaluating your quotations, you will modify and improve your original thesis statement. In other words, you may find quotes for rhetorical devices that are stronger than the devices you previously chose to use.
That's all for now. Have a good week!
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