Identify the rhetorical strategies used to support an argument in one chapter of Edmundson’s The Heart of the Humanities. Analyze how those strategies contribute to the author’s appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos. Evaluate the extent to which those appeals persuade the intended audience and discuss how those strategies are based on key assumptions the author makes about that audience. Construct an account of an author’s project and argument, focusing on its use of a significant source. Examine the original source material and analyze how that argument makes use of it.
Essay Prompt:
1. Identify rhetorical strategies used to support an argument(s) and analyze how these strategies contribute to the author’s appeals (ethos, pathos, logos).
- Evaluate the extent to which the appeal(s) effectively persuades the intended audience and analyze assumptions the author makes about that audience.
- Examine a source used by one of the authors (Edmundson uses a lot of references and allusions). Examine the original source material and analyze how the author makes use of it.
- Works Cited Page
Formatting: MLA formatted, Times New Roman (12), Double-Spaced, and minimum of 4 pages.