Visual Analysis Assignment Review

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Good evening or early morning,

I apologize about contacting you so late, but I had a few questions about my grade on the Visual Analysis paper. I based my writing off of what you mentioned in class as well as the syllabus on Blackboard. You mentioned my paper was too much of an argumentative paper rather than an analysis of my image.

Your feedback: "– The argument is strong, but so much of it is YOUR argument (and unfortunately I am not grading on argument or support)."

From Blackboard: "The aim of this assignment is to support an argument about a work of visual media using the rhetorical tools of persuasion we discuss in class. Using the assigned readings and models provided by the instructor, make an argument that persuades readers of

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