Visual Rhetorical Analysis Assignment

One of the most important aspects of writing, according to the AACU writing rubric, concerns sources and evidence (“Writing Rubric” 2015). The rubric clearly states that an author must use “sources to support ideas in the writing…quotes, if applicable, are generally accurately placed. Citations are correctly formatted in MLA or APA” (2015). The Visual Rhetorical Analysis assignment, for English 1002, demonstrates the trouble I experienced with this significant area in writing (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). Therefore, the revised version of the Visual Rhetorical Analysis demonstrates improvement in the use of sources and evidence as well as in citations, an essential are of writing, because the revisions illustrate proper citations as well as a stronger use of sources, as required by the writing rubric (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015; Brizek, “Revision” 2015; “Writing Rubric 2015). There are numerous places within the Visual Rhetorical Analysis that demonstrates the absence of proper citation of the sources for the information (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). At the time that the essay addresses the rhetorical aspects of the advertisement being analyzed,

According to Purdue Owl, “Entries are listed alphabetically by the author's last name (or, for entire edited collections, editor names). Author names are written last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name” (“MLA” 2015). In the original Visual Rhetorical Analysis, this aspect of the Works Cited page is clearly absent, as the Bandito Brothers was placed on the bottom of the list with Hanlon at the top (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). The simple alteration of the list into alphabetical order, to ensure that it is correctly formatted according to the MLA format, is an improvement in the writing requirements of the rubric (“Writing Rubric”