Rhetorical Analysis In Advertising
In order to graduate with a diploma from a Saudi high school, I had to take a research paper class. A research paper class is where we spend a whole school year working on one research paper. I would consider this as the exigence or the reason behind my need for writing. Another reason would be that I needed to get good grades in that class, which is where my need came from.
We had the first two weeks of class to decide on a topic, which is where I faced most of the constraints. Coming from a conservative society, it wasn’t appropriate to write or speak about certain subjects in school. At first I wanted to write about human trafficking, it was a subject that interested me, yet I knew I would face a lot of constraints while writing, like fore …show more content…
It is also about pointing out the three main categories of rhetorical analysis, which are exigence, audience, and constraints. Rhetorical analysis is important and can be useful in everyday life. One way is through using rhetorical analysis to understand how advertisements are affecting you. Is the ad making you scared? Is it making you happy? Or is it making you sad? Once you know the answer for questions like this, you will know whether the ad is affecting you positively or negatively. Rhetorical analysis also important because it can help you make good decisions, because it gives you the ability to analyze and understand the exigence of a writing or an ad. It gives you the ability to know whether you are targeted as an audience or not, and to know what constraints the rhetor is facing and how it could affect you as a reader. Now that I have looked back onto a pervious writing experience and analyzed it rhetorically, I cannot help but analyze everything I see from ads and TV shows to articles and newspaper headlines. I personally now believe that being able to rhetorically analyze something helps you have a better understanding of what the rhetor is trying to
We had the first two weeks of class to decide on a topic, which is where I faced most of the constraints. Coming from a conservative society, it wasn’t appropriate to write or speak about certain subjects in school. At first I wanted to write about human trafficking, it was a subject that interested me, yet I knew I would face a lot of constraints while writing, like fore …show more content…
It is also about pointing out the three main categories of rhetorical analysis, which are exigence, audience, and constraints. Rhetorical analysis is important and can be useful in everyday life. One way is through using rhetorical analysis to understand how advertisements are affecting you. Is the ad making you scared? Is it making you happy? Or is it making you sad? Once you know the answer for questions like this, you will know whether the ad is affecting you positively or negatively. Rhetorical analysis also important because it can help you make good decisions, because it gives you the ability to analyze and understand the exigence of a writing or an ad. It gives you the ability to know whether you are targeted as an audience or not, and to know what constraints the rhetor is facing and how it could affect you as a reader. Now that I have looked back onto a pervious writing experience and analyzed it rhetorically, I cannot help but analyze everything I see from ads and TV shows to articles and newspaper headlines. I personally now believe that being able to rhetorically analyze something helps you have a better understanding of what the rhetor is trying to