Rhetorical analysis is different from the more familiar literary analysis you are used to performing. Your essay should not just focus on what your chosen text means, but HOW the text communicates this meaning to a particular audience, for a specific purpose.
Your RA thesis should make an arguable claim (one that another well-informed person could reasonably disagree with). Refer to the WR39B chapter in the AGWR for additional information on the types of arguments you might make, how to develop your main thesis, and how to organize and contextualize your ideas.
Keep in mind that you will not be able to discuss every single aspect of your chosen text's rhetorical situation in only 1500-1800 words. You will need to choose specific rhetorical strategies and/or genre conventions to connect to specific aspects of the tale's rhetorical situation--particularly audience and/or context.
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