Provide a more sophisticated rhetorical analysis of one of the academic journal articles—- Noonan Jr., John T “ Abortion in the American Context.” Human Life, Sum. 2017, pp. 11-19
This time as you analyze, you will also consider rhetorical choices like style, design, kairos, and more with audience analysis.
AUDIENCE: Who is the intended audience of the article? What assumptions, values, and beliefs would readers need to hold to find this argument persuasive?
PURPOSE: What might have motivated the author to write this article? What is the writer’s claim/main point? What impact does the author want to have on the audience?
GENRE: What journal was this article published in? What do you know about this journal and its target audience (you may need to do some research here)? How might the fact that this article was written for an academic journal have impacted the article’s content, length, and depth?
STYLE: How does the writer’s language choices and sentence length and complexity contribute to the impact of the argument? How formal or informal is the writing? How does the writer’s attitude toward the subject help or hurt the argument being made?
DESIGN: How do design elements such as layout and font sizes influence of the effect of the argument?
ETHOS: What do you know about the author based strictly on what you see in the article, not
from separate research? How does she/he establish her/his own credibility? Does the author acknowledge other perspectives on the topic or does she/he seem biased?
LOGOS: What facts, research, statistics help the author make her/his point? (
PATHOS: What specific emotions is the author trying to evoke in the audience to help make her/his point? What individual words help evoke these emotions?
KAIROS: Was the article written at a particularly appropriate time (consider month and/or year of publication and/or season?
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