Rhetorical Analysis On Keeping A Notebook

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Author, Joan Didion, in her essay, On Keeping a Notebook, expands the importance of keeping a notebook. Didion’s purpose is to elucidate why having and using a notebook is essential and give examples of how to keep one. She adopts a forthright and didactic tone in order to emphasize notebook keeping with her audience. Didion provides rhetorical question, flashbacks, and the use of pathos to support the purpose of writing her essay. Didion begins her essay by expounding a note that was written in her personal notebook. The author carries out her explanation by first quoting her note and then following that with a flashback that relates to it. Didion uses flashbacks to support the idea that writing down an event could assist in the remembrance

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