rhetorical analysis

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OVERVIEW This essay focuses on analysis, particularly on the Rhetorical Analysis of one or more literary construct: books/short stories/poetry/plays/film. For this essay you are asked to write a rhetorical analysis of a story that has been presented in two media forms: the short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich (a copy is in the week 5 folder) and the Alfred Hitchcock version of the film Rear Window (DO NOT USE A DIFFERENT VERSION OF THE FILM). Your task is to write a 3-4 page (or more if you need to—if you choose the lower end of the range, you must write a complete 3 pages, not 2 1/2) essay making that analysis. You can concentrate solely on the short story, solely on the film, or talk about the rhetorical means used in both. The deadline is Friday of Week 11. SET UP Set up your paper as in essay #1: 12 point Times or Times New Roman, header at the top of each page with your last name and the page number on the right (you can set this up to paginate automatically). Outside of the header and flush left below it, on separate lines: your first and last name, the course designation (ENG 102-B9), the name of the assignment (it"s at the top left of this page), and the due date. On the next line, centered, the title of your paper. Your title should give your reader an idea of what your paper is about (in this case, what you are analyzing and why the analysis is important—that is, what you found out). NEVER put your title in bold, in italics, underline it, or put it in quotation marks. Remember, if you choose to skip lines between paragraphs (as I"m doing here) NEVER indent your paragraphs. In academic papers you must indent your paragraphs, therefore DO NOT add extra lines between any paragraphs (including before or after the title). You may need to go into Word"s features in the Paragraph area and change the "space before" and "space after" in both boxes to zero. Double space everything— including any works cited entries and the information at the top left of the first page. NEVER put more than one period ANYWHERE when writing using a computer; you should only use two spaces after a period when using a typewriter. Name your file: LastNameENG102B9RhetoricalAnalysis.doc (OR .docx—not both). NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. YOUR BEGINNING: On your first page, in one of the first 3 paragraphs, mention the name(s) of the material you are analyzing and the purpose of the analysis (in essence, your thesis). You may use a paragraph or two of introduction, but no more. If you must give some synopsis, keep it to no more than 4 clear sentences. However, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER say, "The purpose of this paper is to...," or "This paper will...." APA format requires that, but it is really bad form in papers that use MLA form. YOUR CONTENT: In this part of your paper you will need approximately 5-8 well developed paragraphs to do the actual analysis. Be sure to read the material on analysis in the Rhetorical Analysis text (Ch 1 especially pp. 3-5; Ch 2 example on pp. 43; and other chapters you find useful) as well as the handout on analysis, particularly the parts highlighted in yellow, before starting your essay. While you may reference an outside source or two if you want, stick mostly with the original text/film and your personal analysis of it/them. Give examples to support your ideas. If you are including parts from the story or film as support. be sure to cite the page numbers or a sentence to orient the reader to the particular scene in the film (for example: "In the scene where xx confronts yy about the zz, ...."). Some rhetorical conventions you may want to talk about are dialogue, narration, exposition, scene construction, camera angles, music, etc. YOUR ENDING: Again, NEVER say "In conclusion...." You can say something like, "Based on this analysis of xxx, it is clear that xxx contributes to the story in many ways." Or whatever you want to stress as the summary of your analysis.