In Part 3 you will construct a draft of you rhetorical analysis paper, based on the thesis and outline you wrote in Part 2. Remember, the goal of this assignment is to describe how the author communicates with the reader, and whether or not the strategies and techniques that they employ to achieve their goal are successful. Your paper should not include your personal beliefs and feelings, or statements that are unsupported by evidence.

Deliverables
(1) A cohesive paper, one to two pages in length (900-1200 words), single-spaced. Your paper should include a creative and appropriate title and the article’s citation, in addition to the following parts.

A. Introduction
The introduction of your paper may include some information from your revised abstract and summary (Part 1), and must include your thesis from Part 2. You will need to incorporate your thesis into a paragraph that introduces the reader to both your paper, and to a lesser degree the article, as well as what you intend to accomplish in your paper. Be sure that you introduction is logical, concise, and flows seamlessly and logically with the rest of your paper. The following ideas may help guide you in writing an introduction.

Place your writing in the larger conversation about rhetoric. Remember your paper is about effective communication, and not about the topic of your article.
Introduce the article you plan to analyze. Name the writer, title of the piece, and, where the piece originally appeared, but incorporate it into the flow of the introduction.
Identify the rhetorical strategies that you have decided to discuss and indicate, in general terms, how they function to promote the author’s purpose in relation to the intended audience.
Incorporate a brief summary of the article to help your audience understand the main points of the article being analyzed. (This is optional, but may be useful for readers)

B. Body
Each paragraph in the body of your paper should generally consist of its own topic sentence and unified focus, which flows together logically with the rest of the paper. For the purpose of this analysis, consider writing one paragraph on each of the rhetorical strategies you identified in Part 2, and providing two to three examples of the use of this strategy from the article. The following list may be useful in helping you develop these paragraphs.

Define the rhetorical strategy. (On that same note, be sure you understand the rhetorical strategy you have identified.)
Quote or paraphrase examples that illustrate the writer’s use of the strategy (two or three examples are probably sufficient). Try to avoid the overuse of direct quotes that are long – use phrases or words instead.
Explain how or why the example illustrates the strategy and how the strategy contributes to the writer’s purpose.
If you find that you need more than one paragraph to explain a single strategy, particularly if you have several examples of the same strategy, be sure to use transitions at the beginning of the new paragraph that make it clear you are still discussing the same strategy.

C. Conclusion
The purpose of the conclusion is to briefly summarize the main points of the analysis and explain the significance of your analysis. Questions for considering the significance of your topic include:

Do the rhetorical strategies that you discuss construct (or fail to construct) a persuasive argument for you? Do you think they were successful for the writer’s intended audience (if written for a specific audience)?
Can you generalize about the role of rhetorical strategies in producing persuasive writing?