Running head RHETHORICAL ANALYSIS 1

Rhetorical Analysis

Saul Retana

The University of Texas at El Paso

RWS 1301

Dr. Vierra

2/29/19
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to determine student housing and its correlation to rhetorical

analysis. What I found is that rhetoric is important to have because it directly relates information

and enables it to be both scholarly and truthful.

Rhetorical Analysis

Serving students who are homeless

Author

When I first started studying student housing and its correlation to rhetorical analysis, I

believed there was nothing else to it but a subject and an explanation, but I soon learned that was

not the case. It is important to comprehend rhetorical analysis and all its features to have a truly

scholarly and credible source. The problem being addressed was how rhetorical analysis affected

my target research question, student housing. My prior knowledge to rhetorical analysis was just

simply a subject and explanation for a given topic.

Discussion

Genre is a type of information put together based on similar characteristics. According to

Chandler & Mundlay(2016), In literary, film and aesthetic theory, a type of text recognized by

particular conventions of form and content in which are shared by other text of that type (p. 1).

According to NFG, Genres are kinds of writing, letters, profiles, report, position papers, poems,

blog posts, instruction, parodies. Accordingly, genre is a group of information put together that

have similar characteristics.

Rhetoric’s goal can be understood as mans way to interact as well as methods of

persuasion. According to Downs (2014), rhetoric refers to a set of principles that explain and

predict how people make meaning and interact (p. 460). According to ted ed Langston (2017)

rhetoric is the art of seeing the available means of persuasion (0:22). According to Downs (2014)

rhetorical action stem from people trying to things with or to each other (p. 464). Accordingly

rhetoric is a set of principles that explain how to predict how people interact in such forms as

persuasion.
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Ethos

This book is a credible source. The author attended Bernard School of Education,

University of the Pacific where he was an associate professor of educational leadership in the

Benerd School of Education at the University of the Pacific. The other author is a professor and

department chair of educational administration and leadership in the Benerd School of Education

at the University of the Pacific. The publisher is Teacher College Press in Columbia university.

Serving Students Who Are Homeless (p .iii, p. 148). Therefore rhetoric’s goal can be understood

as man's way to interact as well as methods of persuasion, that use methods such as Ethos pathos

and logos, the author is credible in his argument owns (2014), rhetoric refers to a set of

principles that explain and predict how people make meaning and interact. (p.460). According to

Langston (2017) rhetoric is the art of seeing the available means of persuasion. (0:22).

According to Downs (2014) rhetorical action stem from people trying to do things with or to

each other (p.464). Aristotle observed that people usually make three overall kinds of appeals, to

logic (logos), to emotion (pathos) and to a rhetor’s credibility (ethos). Accordingly rhetoric is a

set of principles that explains how to predict how people interact in such forms as persuasion.

Pathos

The author takes a clinical approach. The author titles the book Serving Students Who

Are Homeless, the word “serving” is used to get emotion out of the reader to promote a response

where they will provide ways in which they can give the reader an idea of what they can also do

to help. The publisher uses a picture of larger hands holding smaller hands around a house to

further enhance emotional appeal. The entire book further enhances the use of emotion as they

give points such as “the magnitude of student homelessness” as well as “teachers provide
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support”. Serving Students Who Are Homeless (Cover, p .3, p .24). Accordingly, the author does

a phenomenal job of giving emotion to reader by use of pathos.

Logo

In intro or preface, this author uses logo’s very effectively. In the authors preface the

author used the words “ A Resource Guide For Schools, Districts, And Educational Leaders” this

argument is further enhanced in many pages like in page 24 where the headline is “Teachers

Provide Support” where it then says “School faculty, staff and leadership who become aware of

the economic and residential challenges of their students often feel compelled to find ways to

meet the needs they encounter each day as they interact with students” at the first sentence of the

paragraph. Serving Students Who Are Homeless (p .1, p.24). Accordingly, this author uses logos

effectively and concisely to support his argument.

Audience

The audience and reader connection is very important. According to Ede and Lunsford

(1984) A fully elaborated view of audience, then, must balance the creativity of the writer with

the different, but equally important, creativity of the reader. Audience refers not just to the

intended, actual or eventual readers of a discourse, but to all those whose image, ideas, or actions

influence a writer during the process of composition. Accordingly, it is very important to know

and understand the role played by audience for writers.

Conclusion
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