Draft 1.

2: Final Draft of Rhetorical Analysis

Your Draft 1.2 is due Monday, Nov. 30 on Raider Writer by 11:59:59 p.m.
Objective: To complete a final, polished draft of your analysis paper
Purpose: In the first half of the course, you honed your writing skills so as to prepare you for
college level writing. You used all of these skills, (summarizing, paraphrasing, critical reading,
constructing thesis statements, and using supporting material via quotations) throughout the
writing of the initial draft of this assignment. Since completing Draft 1.1, you have written peer
critiques and practiced revising various sections of the draft. This assignment asks you to put
everything youve learned this semester together in writing a final draft of your rhetorical
analysis.
Description: To complete this assignment, first evaluate your initial draft (Draft 1.1) by
answering the following questions.

Did you select a text to analyze?

Did you select your text and critically read it to determine the writers purpose and
intended audience for the text? Do you have a good understanding of those elements?

Have you analyzed the text so as to determine the specific strategies (rhetorical choices)
the writer uses to achieve his or her purpose and to meet the needs of the audience. For
example, you might have chosen to look at such elements as the types of evidence a
writer puts forward and how he or she does so. Remember that you should have
examined several strategies (rhetorical choices), including tone, word choice, and
sentence structure.

After you determined what these strategies (rhetorical choices) were used, you were to
have considered how well these strategies (rhetorical choices) actually worked.

If you have not completed any or all of the above, your revisions should start by addressing these
concerns. If you did, your revisions might begin with adding additional discussion of the text, or
they may begin with a close analysis of your own evidence, sentence structure, word choice, and
tone. How could you improve the communication of your own points to your intended readers?
Your revised draft should be 1200-1500 words.
Given that this is a final draft, it should be proofread carefully to ensure that it is grammatically
and mechanically correct. Please use MLA format for your works cited and your in-text citations.