Rhetorical Analysis Essay 'Building Block'

rest of my essay. One of the quotes that I did not incorporate well in my revised Building Block was the quote that said, “Paul Lauter, who is known for his article explaining the conventions of modernism, has said that “willingness to disrupt syntax and form...in order to challenge the audience’s preconceived notion of value and order” (Lauter 887).” One of the things that helped me a lot to improve the incorporation of my quotes is the advice that I got from an instructor at the writing center. The instructor told me that in order to improve my incorporation of quotes, I need to make sure that it sounds as a single sentence as if the quotation marks were not there. Therefore, as I wrote my Rhetorical Analysis paper and my Rhetoric in Practice …show more content…
Also, connecting all those factors to the overall idea that the author was trying to convey also was extremely difficult for me to do. For the revised Building Block, I noted the use of syntax disruption, which is a modernist convention, but I did not mention how Olsen uses syntax disruption to explain the overall meaning she is trying to convey. Therefore, for my Rhetorical Analysis I made sure that every argument would be connected to the overall idea that I thought Olsen was trying to convey in the book Yonnondio. One thing that helped me do this was choosing my topic sentence carefully. I noticed that by writing strong topic sentences, it helped me stay connected to the overall idea that Olsen was trying to convey and it prevented me from going to topics not related to my argument or the overall idea. For example, for my Rhetorical Analysis, my topic sentence is, “Olsen uses a conversation between Jim and Anna about Andy’s circumstances and his family in order to capture the lack of opportunity for a quality life under capitalism; such illusion of free will can be perceived through a Naturalist lens.” (Rhetorical Analysis final, page 5). In this topic sentence I mention the rhetorical choice of Olsen was to create a conversation between Jim and Anna. Then, I make a connection between the rhetorical choice and the overall meaning that Olsen conveys by saying that Olsen uses the conversation between Jim and Anna to capture the lack of opportunities of a better life among the poor working class under a capitalist system. Lastly, in this same quote I also mention that the audience is able to perceive such things mentioned previously through a naturalist lense, which is connected to the topic of conversation between Jim and Anna. Also for my