Select one of the magazine articles that you discovered in your Research Assignment and analyze it for its basic rhetorical devices. Include the following:
AUDIENCE: Who is the intended audience of the article? How was that determined?
PURPOSE: What is the author’s purpose for writing this article? What is the writer’s claim/main point? What impact does the author want to have on the audience?
ETHOS: How does the writer try to seem credible and trustworthy to the target audience? Is the article one-sided/biased? Does the writer acknowledge alternative perspectives on the issue?
LOGOS: What reasons and/or evidence does the author provide in support of his claim?
PATHOS: How does the writer attempt to tap into the audience’s emotions? What specific emotions are evoked in the audience? How might feeling such emotions help persuade them?
GENRE: What magazine was this article published in? What do you know about this magazine and its target audience (you may need to do some research if you are not familiar with this magazine)? How might the fact that this article was written for this magazine have impacted the article’s content, length, depth, etc.?
DESIGN: How do design elements such as layout and font sizes and images or color influence of the effect of the argument?
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