Put on your toolbelt! It's rhetorical analysis time!
The two letters distributed to class on Friday are from a book called WRITING TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Mary Pipher. In the book, Pipher describes a meadow in her native Nebraska that is slated to become a motocross park. The two letters are written to the County Board, composed of a group of older, male Nebraska landowners.
For CR #2, determine which is the most effective letter for that particular audience. In making that decision, I want you to do a brief rhetorical analysis of each letter. Decide what the simple claim is, if and how it is deepened in any way, what kind of evidence is being used, who the persona of the letter is, as well as what particular diction (word choice) stands out as persuasive. One of these letters fared far better than the other in the County Board. Use your rhetorical "toolbelt" to decide which one it was.
CR #2 is due Wednesday.
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