Rhetorical Reading

What is a rhetorical situation?

• Language used to argue

• Language used to persuade

• Language used to entertain

• None of the above

What are elements of rhetorical situations?

• Audience

• Author

• Writer

• All of the above

What are some questions you should ask while writing rhetorically?

• Who is your audience?

  What does the audience know?

  What counts as evidence?

• Why is the audience reading this?

  How did your audience get to your article?

  Why your article is so negative?

• Are you writing it for the right reason?

  How did your audience get to your article?

  Why did the audience get to your article?

• None of the above

For different assignments you need to read for different things depending on what is asked of you.

• True

• False

Reading Rhetorically is ONLY when your purposes for reading match up to the author's purpose for writing.

• True

• False

What is the first goal that must be set in order to learn information effectivley?

• Apply knowledge presented in course to new problems.

• Learn the body of information presented in the course

• None of the above

What is the second goal that must be set in order to learn information effectively?

• Apply knowledge presented in course to new problems.

• Learn the body of information presented in the course

• None of the above

Reading Rhetorically helps separate key concepts from supporting details.

• True

• False

A book is NOT a conversation. A book just gives you information and the reader has no say in the matter.

• True

• False