This lesson explores author's craft and structure through articles that directly affect students.
This lesson involves students exploring political cartoons and analyzing the argument being made. Students will work in groups to build skills, then they will get an assignment to practice the skill on their own.
Students will learn the terms used for rhetorical analysis and begin using those terms in annotation practice. These foundational skills will lead to a paper in which students write their own rhetorical analysis of a selected text.
When students are assigned an argument paper of 7-9 pages for Composition II, they often struggle to gather enough research material to fill the required pages. This lesson is intended to help them expand their topics in order to write a good research question as well as to gather the appropriate amount of information.