Learning objectives
Annotate a passage for the choices a writer actually makes — what is included, what is left out, what is named and how it is ordered — instead of hunting for devices
Explain the effect of a choice on the intended audience, stating what the audience is moved to think, feel or do as a result
Analyze appeals to credibility, emotion and logic as choices the writer makes for a particular audience, not as labels to be attached to sentences
Analyze a writer's use of concession, refutation, qualification and anticipation of counterargument, and explain what each one wins from a resistant reader
Track a shift in the text — in tone, focus, addressee or line of argument — and explain why the writer places it where it falls
Write about choices in the active voice, keeping the writer as the subject of the sentence so the analysis stays focused on rhetorical decisions
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