Nature Of Rhetorical Analysis In Critical Reading

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Rhetorical Analysis One of the most challenging assignments of writing class is rhetorical analysis. A rhetorical analysis is the process of analyzing a given artifact such as text or image or any other communication. The goal of any rhetoric analysis is to audience, purpose, genre, media, design, and stance employed in the situation under analysis. Students may confuse rhetorical analysis with writing review because both assignments involve analysis. A review differs from a rhetorical analysis because a reviewer is invited to give their opinion of whether they agree on the topic or not while the rhetorical analyst reserves their personal comments on whether they agree or disagree with the author’s viewpoint. As aspiring writer and communicator should develop their rhetorical analysis skills because it provides the basis of critical thinking. Rhetoric analysis is one of the methods used to determine whether a specific message is appropriate for a specified audience, hence effective communication. The nature of rhetoric is the ability to communicate the intended message effectively
Critical reading is the logical skill of perusing, analyzing, and comprehending a specified artefact. A critical reader asks questions such as what the subject of an artefact, the thesis or the topic, the intended audience, the tone of the text as well as the writer’s purpose, arguments and stylistic methods. The next step after critical reading is the discussion of the findings of the exercise. A communicator can utilize a number of strategies to communicate their discoveries. A rhetorical analysis in itself is a piece of persuasive communication. When writing a rhetorical analysis, a writer can utilize a number of strategies such as ;description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect analysis, exemplification, imagery, metaphors, paradox, symbolism, sarcasm and among many other