Rhetorical Analysis PromptThis assignment asks you to produce a thesis-driven analysis, complemented by secondary sources, of an aspect of rhetoric in an assigned text. [For our class, you will be writing onThe Road by Cormac McCarthy].AssignmentBuilding on what you learned in the critical reading response paper, you will now write a more expansive rhetorical analysis of your primary text. Depending on your instructor, your essay may still be focused on genre (the form), or it may involve other aspects of the rhetorical situation. [We will be talking mostly about the genre of The Road in class, but you are welcome to choose a different focus.]As you have learned from the first essay, “content and form are not mutually exclusive categories” (23-24 AGWR). Similarly content and form should also not be read independent of context and audience (intended, invoked). As such, your RA essay should not simply be a rehash of the CRRP in depth and style, but should represent an evolution of your rhetorical analysis skills as far as exploring other points of the rhetorical triangle, assuming your instructor has asked you to do so. The inclusion of secondary sources is intended to strengthen your argument in the context of academic discourse. You will weave relevant and credible sources smoothly into your argument so that it exists as part of an ongoing dialogue among multiple parties involving the text being analyzed.Your instructor will provide more information about the particulars and the focus for this essay. [I am open to all interesting theses that focus on the novel’s rhetoric/rhetorical situation.]Specific examples/quotes from our novel that show why it might be read as belonging to this genre
–>A discussion of why thinking about our novel through the lens of this genre might be useful to our enjoyment, appreciation, or understanding of what the novel is trying to accomplish
–>A discussion of how the genre conventions are toyed with or undercut in the novel (if they are), i.e. how the novel fails to fulfill our expectations
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