Visual rhetoric

Name: Sumeng Chen Course: Eng108 Date: 9/13/2015 Writing a Rhetorical Analysis The article Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide ' is written by Professor Daniel Solove and was published in the year 2011 as an excerpt of the book Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security by the same author. The research on the article is individually sponsored; however, the author takes a neutral stance and examines the issue associated with privacy thus revealing various…

Barbara J. King introduces her argument with a very serious and riveting story about a mother dolphin in distress over the corpse of her baby and uses this anecdote to grab the audience’s attention, appeal to their pathos, and intrigue the audience to continue reading. Her argument is an ambiguous case because even though the two topics of animals and mourning over a loved one would each seem to be honorable, a large portion of the audience she is targeting either doesn’t know or have not…

Texting isn 't exactly the language of the century, it’s not seen in equal respects to even the least intricate communication techniques. Since its creation, texting has grown in popularity and in ease of access. Slang words, a revamped view on the use of abbreviations and the pound sign have become more than a shortcut, John McWhorter introduces the idea of texting as an advancement in language. Just the same as the transformation of any language, such as Latin texting has entered that stage…

What’s in This Toothpaste is a formal essay and it is an informational essay. This essay has an explicit thesis which is “What’s in this toothpaste” (Bodanis, 10) and the urgency of toothpaste consumers to know what is in their toothpaste. In this essay the author writes about the ingredients that make up toothpaste. An effective example of diction is the very well use of scientific phrases. The author uses scientific phrases such as “a large helping of gummy molecules from seaweed Chondrus…

On June 8th, 1762, Samuel Johnson wrote a letter to a woman who had requested his help. The task for Samuel Johnson was to ask the archbishop of Canterbury for patronage to have the woman’s son sent to a university. This was certainly a big and almost impossible task for Samuel Johnson. Therefore, Johnson replied to the woman who had requested his help with great denial. But how can people craft their denial to someone who is possibly in great need of help? Samuel Johnson was able to craft his…

One of the first concepts I gained from this class was the idea of the rhetorical triangle. The rhetorical triangle consists of three points, much like the geometric triangle. The points of the triangle include audience, speaker, and text which were surrounded by the hypothetical circle of context. In high school we just barely scraped the surface of each of these topics but in English 101 we actually learned how to find each of these in text and how to effectively compose about them. In the…

Paul is a kind child that tries to do his best to stay out of trouble or ‘ out of harm’s way’ which is considered to be Erik throughout the story. Paul is secretive. For example when Paul was about five years old. Erik blamed him for telling the police that he and his friend were writing graffiti on the neighborhood walls. As a result Erik and his friend sprayed white paint into Paul’s eye Paul is very vulnerable to the attacks of Erik. Paul kept numerous secrets to himself such as the death of…

My experience in COMM 2367 this semester was an important one for not only my educational career but for my life after the classroom. It helped me reconnect with the task of group work, helped me overcome my fear of public speaking, and much more that I will be discussing through this reflection paper. This communication class did not only help me complete a second writing course but also helped me learn how to use persuasion tactics in a writing and a speaking fashion. I have learned that…

A trip to Georgia, the grocery shop, and the Washington hotel were the key events that drove Michael Moss’s motivation to educate the media on the food industry with his bestseller, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. In his work, Moss attempts to simulate the impact the events had on him so that readers can make their own food changes and think differently from the fabricated information food industries give off. His simulation consists of a mixture of cold hard facts and…

ads because I felt drinking and driving is a serious issue that is becoming more popular with deaths and it needed to be addressed. This paper like the language analysis paper also went very well in terms of writing and making the outline. Using rhetoric in a paper hasn’t been an issue for me ever since high school, I just understand each one and can usually point them out of any type of ad. When I finished the paper I felt I described each advertisement well in terms of logos, pathos, and ethos…