Scott Jaschik Rhetorical Analysis

Initial Draft

In the initial rhetorical analysis draft of Scott Jaschik’s “Winning Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism,” I noticed that there are some mistakes in specifying the audience, integrating sources, making a deep analysis, and organizing the structure of the paper. The writer of the draft could have made more analysis than summary, which is explaining the effectiveness of Jaschik’s use of the referred rhetorical choices. To give an example of illustrations as rhetorical choice, the writer mentions the episode in Jaschik's text where the instructor assigns her students an assignment to purposely plagiarize. However, he does not explain how successful these rhetorical choice were in persuading the audience. In the first paragraph of the draft, the author states that Jaschik writes in general to an audience who is interested in academic integrity and those who want to either stop or learn more about plagiarism. Stating the audience that way is too broad and opens the suggestion that the writer of the draft could have stated it more specifically. The …show more content…
In the beginning of the introduction of the second draft, the writer gives a brief explanation of the issues Jaschik addresses in his article, which helps the reader to understand what the draft is about right in the first sentences of the introduction. On the other side, what I had not noticed in the first draft is the lack of background information in the introduction about the issue of plagiarism that will be discussed in the body paragraphs. Another mistake I had not identified in the first draft is that the quotes used by the writer of the draft are not strong enough to serve as evidence that those are really example of the predominant rhetorical choices in the