Rhetorical Analysis Of Two Days In October Rhetorical Analysis

Within this semester of writing 120, I have improved on many different skills this semester. For example, I have bettered my understanding of the concepts of purpose, audience, and rhetorical situations. One was that this can be demonstrated is within my essay, “Rhetorical Analysis of Two Days in October.” In this paper, I dove into how audience can be crucial when deciding to write or produce something. This documentary was made quite a while ago, which means that its target audience may be different now than it was when it first came out. It came out at a time where many people may have been involved in the Vietnam War, whether it was protesting or fighting. However, today when it is shown in classrooms, most of the students would not have

When we did that in class activity of searching through and dissecting the university’s webpage, we also discussed what the pictures on the pages conveyed. One of them that I discussed in class was the history of the university and its webpage. The large picture at the top was a black and white picture of students standing in front of a very old building. Before that exercise, I would have skipped right past that photograph. But we discussed how that could subconsciously add to its credibility. The very old picture makes students and other viewers consider the prestige of the university. This is because when we see something that has been around for a while, especially colleges, we think that age equals prestige. This photograph was just one of many on the website that we dissected, and it made me think critically about how sources can use imagery to sway the reader’s

This goes back to how I have gained knowledge on how to use different types of sources, such as digital and multimedia sources. Using different types of sources creates different tones to what is written. If I were to use a source from The Onion, it is clearly going to be less credible than if I were to use something from TIMES. While this is an obvious example, it demonstrates my point. Using sources from something other than a scholarly journal creates a much more casual tone, which may be the rhetoric that the writer wanted to