Rhetorical Analysis
The ONLY source needed is the one attached.
this is the prompt provided to me:
“In this essay, you’re going to explore this idea and start practicing with some key critical thinking concepts like audience, purpose, and main idea by doing a rhetorical analysis of an article that is trying to convince its readers to be more truthful in what they share on social media. In this essay, you are going to basically be breaking down this article, called “A Virtuous Cycle: How Truth Can Win In Our Public Discourse” by the writers Gleb Tsipursky and Agnes Vishnevkin.
What am I writing about?
In this essay, you’re doing a rhetorical analysis of the article “A Virtuous Cycle: How Truth Can Win In Our Public Discourse” by the writers Gleb Tsipursky and Agnes Vishnevkin. A rhetorical analysis essay asks you to break down a piece of writing, explain how the parts work and why the authors made the choices they did, and evaluate the effectiveness of the argument.
For this essay, your thesis will answer this question: Does the article “A Virtuous Cycle: How Truth Can Win In Our Public Discourse” by Tsipursky and Vishnevkin effectively argue its point? In other words, is it likely to convince the intended audience to take the “Pro-Truth Pledge”?
In your body paragraphs, you should break down the article by answering these questions:
Who are the authors of this piece? What expertise do they have? Who is the audience for this piece? How do you know?
What is the setting for this piece? In other words, what was going on in the world at the time the piece was written that the writers are responding to? How do you know?
What is the purpose of this piece? What is the article’s main claim/thesis? How do you know?
What evidence or reasons do the authors give to support their claim? In other words, how do they try to convince their audience to accept their claim?
What is the tone of this piece? How do you know?
What appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) do the authors use? How do you know?
Is the piece effective? In other words, is it likely to convince the intended audience to take the “Pro-Truth Pledge”? How do you know?
What are the requirements?
The final draft should be at least four full pages long, typed and double spaced in MLA format. It may be longer than four pages.
It should have all of the parts of an essay: an introduction paragraph with a thesis statement, several focused body paragraphs that each focus on a subtopic related to the assignment, and a conclusion paragraph.
For this essay, you are not required to do any outside research. You are only using the article “A Virtuous Cycle: How Truth Can Win In Our Public Discourse” by Tsipursky and Vishnevkin.
