Overview of Weeks 16 & 17

Great job, everyone! We are almost across the finish line!

In these last two weeks of the semester before the final exam, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the rhetorical concepts and reading, writing, and critical thinking skills we have covered in the course. After learning about the upper-division reading and writing test given to juniors at universities and 4-year colleges, in particular SDSU, you will spend some time with a variety of resources that I have assembled to help you construct Writing Project #4: Rhetorical Analysis.  The good news: you have already started! 

As always, if you have any questions, be sure to send me an email. I am here for you.

Learning Objectives for this Module:  

By the end of this module, you should be able to: 

1. write a rhetorical analysis in which you introduce and summarize an author's argument and recognize, analyze, and evaluate specific persuasive appeals made by the author and the strategies used to achieve them  (major claim, thesis), taking into account genre, purpose, and audience;
2. make effective choices regarding point of view, tone, and voice in relation to audience and purpose;
3. demonstrate mastery of formatting papers and citing sources in MLA.