31 Rhetorical Modes: Rhetorical Analysis (major essay)
You will select an issue related to health and wellness that concerns you. Please choose from the following:
- The effectiveness of personal feedback/tracking devices (fitbit, Apple watch or other wearable technology)
- Changing a sedentary lifestyle
- Sugar, salt, fat and their effect on Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension and Heart Disease
- Body image
- Recess or PE classes in K-12
- Disordered eating
- Balancing school, work, and life
Choose an article about your topic that is no more than two pages long.
Write a rhetorical analysis in MLA format. You will write an introduction; short paragraphs with a few sentences about each of these elements; and a conclusion.
- Introduction that names the article and gives the source information in MLA format
- author
- opportunity
- purpose
- audience
- message
- medium of delivery
- stance
- conclusion that describes the overall impression of the article – what did you think about it?
This will be a short assignment of 100 – 300 words.
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