Use one of the four linked essays below. Keep in mind some of the strategies we covered this week on rhetorical analysis. Our main questions to consider are: who is the intended audience of the essay? is the essay effective? Is this essay credible? What is the article missing? How credible is the author? To better answer these questions, be sure to find the following:
• Who is the author, and why is this important?
• When was the essay written, and why is this important?
• What claim is the author making?
• What kind of claim is the author making (fact, value, or policy)? How does the author support this claim?
• What is the warrant that connects the claim and the support?
ESSAYS to choose from:
“Why Do People Spread False Information Online?”
• Link: https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=OVIC&u=mill30389&id=GALE|A637699196&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-OVIC&asid=01ab9d10
“The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization” (polarization in the U.S. due to politics and media sources)
• Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/us-democrat-republican-partisan-polarization/629925/
“Consider the Lobster” (ethics of food choices)
• Link: http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
“How We Killed Expertise (and Why We Need it Back)”
