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Mastering Rhetorical Analysis: Enhance Writing Precision and Clarity

Improve your analysis by avoiding overuse of the word "quote." Learn to describe author actions effectively, use hyphenated and unhyphenated expressions, decipher P.B. abbreviations, and handle possessive forms properly. Enhance your writing with essential tips and tricks!

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Mastering Rhetorical Analysis: Enhance Writing Precision and Clarity

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  1. NOTES ON YOUR PROMISING RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PAPERS

  2. Using the word ‘quote’. • Try not to use it! • Instead, state the action the writer takes in writing. • FOR EXAMPLE, “Einstein asserts…” “Einstein concedes…” “Einstein appears to lose his thread when he writes…” “Einstein wonders…” “Einstein concludes…” • This shows that you understand what an author is doing.

  3. Hyphenated and Unhyphenated Expressions in English • Hyphenate a compound adjective – that is, an adjective you create using a noun and a verb (participial). World-renouned. Award-winning. Thought-provoking. • Observe the spellings of unhyphenated words: e.g., counterargument, straightforward, overriding.

  4. P.B. abbreviations • N.a.S. (not a sentence) • l.c. (lower case) • Discuss the idea of dotted lines: suggestions for concision!

  5. Items in a series • Noun, noun, and noun. • Noun phrase, noun phrase, and noun phrase. • But… • Adjective, adjective and adjective.

  6. The possessive form of words that end in ‘s’ in their singular form. • For contemporary words, including names: form the plural by adding ‘s. Thus, the Jones’s back yard… Phyllis’s letter… the Royals’s winning score. • For ancient words – i.e., Greek or Latin words – ending in ‘s’, form the possessive by simply adding the apostrophe. Socrates’ back yard.

  7. Let’s talk about the word ‘naïve’. • A.E. writes about people who are “more ‘naïve” to what?

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