Effects of Fast Food Culture on Regional Cuisines and Individual Health
Overview
For this project, you will be asked to think more carefully about the rhetorical purpose of several of the sources about your chosen topic. You will select three sources–one scholarly, one popular, and one other source–from your research and complete the rhetorical analysis activity using textual evidence to support your claims for each one. That is, you will gather the information to make an evaluation about the rhetorical effectiveness of the author for three different sources you plan to use in your future writing about your topic. You will also write a reflection to submit along with the completed project.
Context
In order to have a clear understanding about multiple, credible perspectives on your topic, you must critically analyze the perspectives themselves and the sources where you find them. With this assignment, you will focus on the rhetorical effectiveness of three of your sources. Rhetorical analysis focused partly on what is being said by a source, but also on how it is being presented and by whom. We ask questions like what choices have the author(s) made that allow you to believe the source you have selected is a trustworthy? Is the organization/presentation an effective way to convey that particular information? How does the evidence work to support that particular argument being made by a source? Thinking about sources in this way is part of developing your critical reading and research skills and your ability to select and utilize good quality, effective sources.
Step One: select and carefully read your three sources–one scholarly, one popular, and one other.
Step Two: download the 201 Rhetorical Analysis Project
Download 201 Rhetorical Analysis Project and complete the four stages of the project–one stage for each source and a one-page reflection.
Step Three: submit your project.
