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The University Writing Center (UWC) at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX has created some very useful tools explaining Rhetorical Analysis and the underlying ideas and language. These tools are linked here for your use with this particular assignment.
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There are a number of good choices when it comes to finding appropriate texts for this assignment. The key thing to remember is that any text you choose should exhibit rhetorical strategies, so steer clear of news articles or strictly informational writing. The list below includes the textbook for this course, databases, along with other locations to find speeches and long form articles from various magazines.