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Rhetorical Square




Review

Message, purpose, audience, and voice — recognizing these four elements will help you understand, analyze, and evaluate an author's rhetoric, or persuasive, techniques.  Every author has an argument.  It's vital that an author consider these elements when constructing an argument, and a reader consider them when confronted with an argument.

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Online Intervention Assignment

To get credit for this intervention, complete ALL the following steps:
  1. Read these excerpts from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience."
  2. Complete and submit this assignment online using the reading. This will take about 20 minutes, and the form does not let you save your responses; in other words, you must complete the assignment in one sitting.
  3. Email your teacher to let him or her know that you've completed the assignment.