36 Rhetorical Analysis
A Rhetorical Analysis identifies and analyzes how a given source uses the rhetorical categories of Purpose, Audience, Tone, Genre, and Context. Rather than summarize the text or respond to the author’s arguments, the goal is to understand the author’s rhetorical choices and how these choices relate to audience expectations and genre conventions.
The following rhetorical analysis sample compares two articles: one written for the general public, the other for experts in the criminology field.
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