Read this.
You're going to use this week's notes on rhetorical style and technique to write a SOAPSTone analysis of it for Monday.

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Follow up to today's lecture and discussion about word origins.
Click for more about doppelganger, schadenfreude, and zeitgeist.
Click for more about nemesis.
What's the word for a word based on a name? Eponym
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Here's the email I sent after class on Friday.
This weekend you're going to analyze the role of speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, topic, and tone in President Obama's jobs speech. This means going beyond identifying these elements to develop ideas about each element and to support this development with quotations from the speech itself.

To help I've attached a lengthy document on rhetorical analysis that contains--on pages 21 and 22--a student's response to a similar assignment. [I couldn't post this document to the blog.] (The document contains a lot of other useful information about rhetorical analysis too.) Excellent SOAPSTone analyses will show an understanding of rhetorical analysis concepts and the texts itself. (Try incorporating ideas about words choices, sentences/syntax, and discourse as well as ideas about logos, pathos, and ethos. Notice what you notice even if you don't have a name for the technique the rhetor seems to use.) Excellent SOAPStone analyses will also be able to develop and support convincing insights about the speech. They will be thorough and thoughtful. If anything else seems important even though it doesn't fit into the SOAPSTone analysis (structure for example) go ahead and write about it. On Monday we will evaluate how we're doing with the concepts and then prepare to apply them in an end-of-unit assignment.

all the best,
Mr. James Cook