WRA-130 Ellie Jensen

This article suggests many possibilities for postulating criticism of a selected text. There’s always some form of impact when rhetorical criticism has been published. Such as how evident is the article in its persuasiveness to discourage the original piece of information? Also after that said credibility has been lost how can an author gain it back? Research questions are key when developing a rhetorical theory. Noticing faulty factual statements or statements that are in contradictions to one another. This article itself notes, however, the art of visual argumentation is of new frontier for rhetoricians. Nevertheless there is a process for formulating a research question and a data-supporting artifact: 1. The critic discovers the artifact and research question simultaneously 2. The critic formulates a research question first and then searches for data or a rhetorical artifact that will answer it 3. The critic encounters a rhetorical artifact of interest and then formulates a research question to ask about it.

There was an initial interest in criticism, a point of stimulation to the reader to further look into an aspect of the text that posed a question. The critic could simply be interested, however, if it is based fully on pure interest its declared artifact as impetus, but this form of a question as impetus requires a rhetorical artifact providing an answer to their question. The steps to creating a critical essay are as follows 1. An introduction 2. Description 3. Description of the unit of analysis 4. Report of the findings of the analysis and 5. Discussion of the contribution the analysis makes in answering the research question. The description in itself for each step I personally believe are self-explanatory at the collegiate level of education. The process of doing a rhetorical criticism can be summarized in four major steps: 1. Formulation a research question and selecting an artifact 2. Selecting a unit of analysis 3. Analyzing the artifact and 4. Writing the critical essay. The reasons for a rhetorical criticism are vast and outnumbering but in my personal opinion I find them crucial to the ever-developing strategies of writing and always helpful in correcting the false along side providing the true information to readers alike.