Rhetorical Analysis: A Reflective Essay

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These are all the comments from my instructor with respect to my RIP essays. At first, the message I wanted to express was that the characteristics of anti-hero and femme fatale represents people’s loss of moralities. However, my professor said that it was more general and I should think a little more deeply in my essay. Therefore, I realized that as far as my writing process went, I should use more rhetorical analysis.
Rhetorical analysis is the most important and useful thing that I have learnt from taking writing 39B. From the first draft of Rhetorical Analysis, I could only summarize the plot from the text to analysis the problem. However, on the final draft of RIP essay, I have improved a lot about this analysis. I thought the society

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