Rather than just requiring a rhetorical analysis, I have decided to provide you more choice in writing the last paper for the semester. Choose one of the following and write a 2-3 page paper.
- Do a rhetorical analysis of one of the final readings for the semester (Elshtain, Karpati, Begley, Hubbard, or–if you want to read a day ahead–Wheeler). Some issues to consider: the author’s audience and purpose, the theme of the essay, how this theme is presented to this audience, what the author might have done differently, etc.
- Choose another topic from your discipline and write a short essay about the topic for a specific generalist audience (readers of TIME or a sixth-grade science class, for instance). Specify the audience.
- Rewrite paper number 5 with a different audience in mind. For example, for paper 5, Jill wrote about her research on proteins for a science audience. For paper 6, she could simplify the technical language she used in paper five and focus more on the human implications of this type of research in a short TIME article on advances in science.