Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Blake's Mid-Unit 1 Post

http://www.popsci.com/
Rhetorical analysis can be defined as the breaking down of some piece of literature, analyzing the text, and determining what the author does in the text to persuade or inform the audience. In a nutshell, it is how the author, the text, and the audience interact. The first blog I will be analyzing later for the unit one project is a science related blog called Popular Science. In my opinion, this blog is very clear and all the blog posts are very relevant to the theme of the blog. This blog has many posts, and many different articles to analyze rhetorically, and many rhetorical devices could be found.
I have some background knowledge of rhetorical analysis before taking my English 101 class at NC State. At my high school, I took AP English in 11th grade that was a class solely dedicated to rhetorical analysis and the many devices used. I hope to find out a lot from this blog, and want to find many rhetorical devices, in order to see just how much authors try to persuade readers to read their blogs, and just how much they do inform their readers. I hope that this blog will contain many devices, maybe even some that I had not considered before.

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