A rhetorical analysis is a piece of work that tells the readers about how the author they are evaluating writes or explains their topic. Their purpose could be to inform, persuade or entertain. The person writing the rhetorical analysis’s job is to simply evaluate how well the author did writing it. It is not their job to form an opinion or to get emotional over the topic, nor is it to summarize the work, it is to simply evaluate. The analyzer uses the words ethos, pathos, and logos to judge the writer of their work. Ethos is a word to explain an appeal to ethics, pathos is a word to explain to explain the emotions, and logos is used to explain the credibility.

During my time of writing the rhetorical analysis, I learned a lot. I learned how to properly evaluate a source and know when it is credible and reliable. Before this assignment, I would randomly pick articles and hope that it would be good enough for my papers, but now I know how to choose a correct one. This assignment furthered my knowledge about my major because as a criminal justice major I will have to read over documents that will or will not be credible at all. Because I have written a rhetorical analysis now, I now know how to distinguish the difference between bad writing and good writing.

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