http://theweek.com/articles/654508/what-exactly-am…
Read the text named above and then answer the questions below. Write your responses in the form of short answers to each question, not as an essay.
I need this ASAP but absolutely before 12:30 P.M. tomorrow EST time.
Here are the questions you are to answer:
What can you discern about the discourse community in which this text is operating? Who is part of the discourse community, what values are important to them, what do members of this discourse community consider credible evidence, and what genres do they typically use?
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What was the exigency for this piece? What event, situation, or position within an ongoing debate is the writer responding to?
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What is the writer’s “message,” the key point(s) he or she is trying to convey? What is the writer trying to say?
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Who is the writer’s intended (targeted) audience? What textual clues help you conclude who the piece is aimed at?
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What is the writer’s rhetorical purpose? What does the writer want the audience to feel, know, believe, or do?
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What rhetorical appeals does the writer use to accomplish his or her rhetorical purpose?
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Describe the writer’s appeals to ethos. How effectively does the writer use the ethos appeal to accomplish his or her rhetorical purpose?
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Describe the writer’s appeals to logos. What types of reasoning does the author present or use? How effectively does the writer use the logos appeal to accomplish his/her persuasive purpose?
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Describe the writer’s appeals to pathos. How effectively does the writer appeal to the intended readers’ emotions and values, and how effectively does the writers’ pathos appeal accomplish the persuasive purpose?
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Very briefly, do you think the writer was likely to be effective with his/her intended audience in accomplishing his persuasive purpose?
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