Analyzing a Larger Conversation
In Essay 2, you will use rhetorical analysis techniques to make informed comparisons between the reading you selected for Essay 1 and an additional reading chosen from the list below. Start with the idea that both authors are addressing a shared issue, but that their rhetorical situations – their occasion for writing, their sense of audience, and their purpose with regard to the issue – may be very different.
You should discuss and compare the two readings in terms of these and other rhetorical elements. Build your analysis on specific evidence from both readings. Are the authors trying to do the same thing, or different things? Are their audiences or occasions for writing different? If they’re both part of the same conversation, what accounts for any differences in purpose and rhetoric? Analyzing a Larger Conversation
For Essay 2, you will use the reading from your first essay, but you will connect it to another reading from the list below. Once you have worked through the two readings’ connections to one another and to a larger conversation about a significant issue, you will offer your response. As in the first paper, this response should be rooted in an analysis of your own position as a reader and comparisons to their assumptions about their audiences. Is there something neither author covers that is important to you today? Be careful what sorts of claims you make here; since you will not have the opportunity to cite credible evidence of your own or bring in new factual material, you will have to respond based on your own experiences and your analysis of the readings. Analyzing a Larger Conversation
You may choose one of the following essays to connect to the reading you analyzed for Essay 1 and respond to. Not all pairs will work, so be careful in making your choice when picking which reading to connect to the Essay 1 reading you have worked on already. You may not use anything beyond your two readings as sources.
All four are linked here:
Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/sites/adming/files/unpacking-invisible-knapsack.pdf,
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1214964.Ta_Nehisi_Coates/blog?page=6,
Audre Lorde“Age Race Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
Victor Tan Chen “All Hollowed Out”
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-working-class-poverty/424341/