September 5th 2017
For this planning post, my assignment is to make a plan as to how I’m going to approach this assignment. To start, I would like to define what exactly I’m being asked to do. They stated “Rhetorical Analysis” is what I’m meant to do, but to be honest, I have no clue what that means, so let’s define it further. They go on to say a Rhetorical Analysis is looking at how an author fulfills or fails it’s purpose for the particular audience. Also, on the assignment sheet, they try and push me towards analyzing the persuasive strategies the author uses to convince me of seeing their point of view. Finally, I looked up the definition of Rhetorical Analysis. Paraphrased, it seems that Rhetorical Analysis is a technique that writers use by breaking down articles into parts and then explaining how the writer uses their own style of writing to entertain, inform, or something entirely different. With this being known, I think one of the best chances I have is picking a sports article that is looking to persuade the reader on something such as predicting why a team will win the championship. For this, I’ve picked a topic that I know well in terms of sports, soccer and I picked an article about Liverpool winning the English Premier League. Here is the article link. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4753122/Can-Liverpool-win-Premier-League-superb-pre-season.html Hopefully this article will allow me to correctly analyze and get a good grade on the assignment.