Rhetorical Analysis

I will be writing my rhetorical analysis on "Why Twitter Will Endure" by David Carr on pages 583-585.

Sample Student Rhetorical Analysis:

3 Points Jackson makes about context and text

Context1.  Jackson points out that the audience of his speech was the 34 members of the House Judiciary Committee.
2. Jackson says that Jordan, a democrat, had to convince her audience (mainly republican) that she was not biased.

3. He points out that Jordan is trying to be humble and trying not to judge in saying "Has the president committed offenses, and planned, and directed, and acquiesced in a course of conduct which the Constitution would not tolerate?"


Text:
1. He shows how the author (Barbra Jordan) showed evidence to support her arguments(example: reasons for President Nixon to be impeached and other historical quotes). (Ethos)
2. He says that "...establishes herself as someone fighting to defend and protect American values." (pathos)
3. Jackson appeals to emotion by bringing up how accepted authority and law deals with impeachment (logos)

My contextual analysis: Jordan brings up a point about how she would not subvert the Constitution of the United States and how a President should not. She tries to instill a strong feeling that the president should be impeached. She continues to say that "the President has counseled his aides to commit perjury, willfully disregard the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, conceal surreptitious entry, attempt to compromise a federal judge, while piblicly displaying his cooperation with the processes of criminal justice."




My textual analysis: Barbra Jordan believes the Constitution is being destructed and he will not sit on the sidelines. That is why Barbra wrote this speech.

First time blogging...ever

You'll have to bear with me, the closest I've ever come to blogging is setting facebook statuses.

My most recent english class that I had in high school was in one word a joke. I only wrote two essays the whole year and they were graded by an online essay scorer. My teacher was actually a cool guy he just needs to be in a different profession. The main thing we did all year was watch movies such as Hamlet,(2 different versions) Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and other movies like that. Not that watching movies was a bad thing but I don't really remember what happened..so i feel like I would have benefitted more from reading the books/plays. My junior year English class was an awesome class but it feels so long ago. 

For that reason, I think my writing skills are definitely lacking so I will need to brush up on a lot of stuff. 

So, I am hoping that English 15 helps me improve my writing skills and find out what my strengths and weaknesses are and work on both of those.