Rhetorical Criticism

Paper instructions:
Think of a topic in the media you’d really like to discuss. It should be socially significant and meaningful to you. Ideas for good topics might be body image in the media, racism, explicit drug or alcohol use, or sexual overtones of popular media. You can use any of these or create your own.
Collect 5 scholarly journal articles on your particular topic or media. For example you can collect articles on body image or on TV shows that display poor body images. These articles must be scholarly and peer reviewed, not just editorials in scholarly journals. You can find your own scholarly journal articles or choose a journal from the list posted on our D2L page.
Create a reference page in APA format. Don’t forget to include access info or the DOI number. Under each entry in your bibliography you need to have 2 paragraphs. The first paragraph will describe the article and its most important parts. Do not use the abstract! You need to summarize it in your own words. The second paragraph will consist of how you’d like to use this article in your final paper. For example, you may want to use a particular article to show the background of a specific topic or use the author’s findings to support your argument.
Rhetorical Criticism

For this assignment you will select an artifact, phenomena or symbol you observe or participate in. This should be socially significant and meaningful to you and to others. You will engage in a descriptive analysis and argument of your selected form of rhetoric. Consider the following-

Daily, we engage in a process of:

Thinking about symbols
Discovering how they work and why they affect us
Choosing to communicate in particular ways as a result of the options they present

Rhetoric: “The action humans perform when they use symbols for the purpose of communicating with one another” (Foss, 1996, p. 4).

Four dimensions of conceptualizing rhetoric:

Rhetoric is an action
Rhetoric is a symbolic action
Rhetoric is a human action
Rhetoric functions to enable us to communicate with one another

Rhetorical Criticism: the process of systematically investigating and explaining symbolic acts and artifacts for the purpose of understanding rhetorical processes

Central to rhetorical criticism is a view of communication as a persuasive process
Analysis is linked the Aristotle’s Rhetoric:
Analysis of ethos (credibility appeals of the speaker)
Analysis of pathos (emotional appeals of the speaker)
Analysis of logos (logical appeals of the speaker)

Doing a rhetorical criticism:

Select a rhetorical artifact and formulate a research question
Select your units of analysis (or aspects of the artifact to which to attend to in order the answer the research question)
Analyze the artifact (know its dimensions)
Write a critical essay
Introduction
Description of artifact and its context
Description of the unit of analysis
Report on the findings of the analysis
Discussion and contribution the analysis makes to answering the research question

Your paper must include-

At least 5 scholarly sources
Fully developed introduction and conclusion
Description of the sight of rhetorical analysis (phenomena, object, etc.)
Analysis (what’s the problem?)
Implications (so what?)
A reference page that meets current APA standards
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