Rhetorical Analysis Is Easy and Useful (and Fun!)

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@ElliotBrownJingles 6 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for the great video. I loved the conclusion about not enough people having the superpower! The only thing I will say is that there was no ad in the video after your prompt for one (when I watched anyway).

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

Thanks--maybe you got lucky 🙂

@kipper1668 6 ай бұрын

Christian: Leaving a comment to help persuade the algorithm to share your videos more!

@jolinevdk 6 ай бұрын

Ok that was an incredibly well thought out and integrated ad break. So clever!

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

Ha, thanks!

@ab1otic222 6 ай бұрын

This was so clear and easy to follow. Thank you. I'm used to engaging with critical thinking from a social science perspective, so looking at it from this perspective is very interesting.

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

You bet--thanks!

@Onthewayover 6 ай бұрын

My favorite ad break yet! I was presented questions about the book of Genesis intended to pique my curiosity and challenge my preconceptions about Biblical genres, promising me insight to understand a full third of the Hebrew Bible by learning Hebrew poetic forms in a Genesis class at Hillsdale College. The ad promised revelation of ancient knowledge hidden in plain sight through literary form, which---ironically, considering the beginning of Genesis---was pretty tempting.

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

That's lucky to get an enjoyable ad break--what I wouldn't give for one 😆

@EonRifft 3 ай бұрын

Initially I just wanted to watch your videos to help me do an analysis for something, but I really enjoy your content, thank you. I know you are being humble, but you are not boring at all, at least I do not find you so. I hope you can find a job as a professor at your preferred intuition, I think the students will find you really engaging. Keep sharing your knowledge if you are able, I intend to keep watching, to hone my analysis powers.

@WritingwithAndrew 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much--I'm glad you've been enjoying them. Here's to becoming analytically all-powerful 😆

@delstanley1349 6 ай бұрын

If I were a kid (I'm an old man) why would I want to go to Book Week? 1) 4:10 Look! It's a play ground! Different toys and ways to play on now. Gone are the slides, and swings, and Jungle Jims and things. I think it's a "playground." Replacing those fun toys are larger-than-life size books, but are they fun? I dunno if I'm a kid, BUT look at but those kids having fun! It may not be about books (to a kid watching), but I've got to be there. Let's go! I simply think the playground motif alone is what will drive the kids. Only two books have pics, and the rest are just titles--I'm not sure if the kids would be THAT excited about the pics, but then again I'm way too old to truly know. Today (2024) I would say the kids MAY see a call to explore books in Book Week, BUT I'm inclined more to say they would still want to go but to see BIG SCREEN animation!😝 In any event the kids will be there, which was the npoint all alone. 2) How would it motivate the parents? I think this one involves some politics. Yeah, even then. ESPECIALLY THEN! Note the very muted colors. Of course you could have a pic of an original cover from a 67 year old book which could explain. But no vivid red, not even a single red letter in the book title meant to address kids, except for a small cap and shirt? Fishy huh, or poor marketing-rhetoric? Kids have always loved red, haven't they? Since this is 1957 I suspect we were in, or near the McCarthy era peak on hunting down communists. Then, it was called The Big Red Scare (or something). Red? Books? Targeting kids in 1957? Must be liberals and communists planning to take over the world starting with the kids. Maybe that sounds hysterical in 2024, but not so in 1957. Beware! I suspect the people promoting Book Week back then felt they had to be extra careful targeting kids during Book Week to not run afoul of the witch hunters. We could also jump to the other side and say that the promoters were right-wing anti communists or John Birchers who made it clear through code no principal red usage. Wild huh? Remember this is 1957. In any event I think the secondary audience as you said is the parent, and you-- the promoter of Book Week had better show some evidence you ain't no commie. This is fun! Bring more!

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

Oh the rhetorical complexities of 1950s book weeks...

@electrictaser4571 2 ай бұрын

what do you think of this rhetorical analysis essay The designer of this poster motivates children and their parents to go to book week through colorful and playful images, A promise of adventure and the polite behavior of the children. To get children to interact with a piece of media is difficult especially in an age of short attention spans and technology so the designer used colors in his/her poster, so it would pop out on a usually empty wall and so it might catch the eyes of some children. Furthermore the children in the poster seem very lively and playful which would also help catch the interest of any passing by children; they would wonder why are these other children so happy? Upon further inspection of the poster one will notice that all of the books are adventure books like "STRORIES FROM OTHER TIMES" and "Alice and Wonderland" this communicates that book week will focus on adventure books for kids and by extension book week will be an adventure for any kids that are willing to show up as they will be able to imagine themselves going through adventures while reading the wide variety of books at book week. Finally you will notice that all of the kids are well behaved in the poster, no kid is tearing out pages or making a scene and this does not appeal to possible kids seeing this poster but the parents who will take their kids to book week. Most parents don't like dealing with loud annoying kids but in this book week event their children will be able to read lots of books, gaining knowledge all while they are quiet and well behaved which will leave a majority of parents happy to drive their kids to this event.

@fabelisan 4 ай бұрын

Excellent content! Thank you so much!

@WritingwithAndrew 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@KyleMaxwell 6 ай бұрын

KZbin Premium means I didn’t have to see an ad but I suppose that is something in itself.

@apoet-y6c 6 ай бұрын

First ad: Grammarly. It helped this guy with applying for residency so it will help you too. It helps you avoid repetitive words and has other wonderful features which will be so helpful to you. Ugh. I've been writing for school on the computer, so that's probably why I get these so much. As an aside, I once had a classmate come to me to proofread an assignment she had written, and I noticed there was the same mistake all over it: many times there would be a sentence break in the middle of a sentence. I told the kid and she said that's what Grammarly told her to do. Doesn't make me think highly of it.

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

Oh Grammarly...

@jakariashafin8685 5 ай бұрын

You are a very good educator

@WritingwithAndrew 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Bballer9123 4 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you sir

@WritingwithAndrew 4 ай бұрын

Sure thing!

@2kratM 6 ай бұрын

I got a really long ad about how some person apparently succeeded in life because of some special method, (presumably, it was an ad for a self-help book), but it was so generic that I quickly got bored and skipped it.

@WritingwithAndrew 6 ай бұрын

Oof, a classic ad-audience mismatch, it sounds like

@axelanderson2030 6 ай бұрын

Nice video!

@dottiehilliard2458 2 ай бұрын

Desperaterly need help before 10/16/24! Looking for an English Major to analysis a definition for me!

@Directrix_Gazer 6 ай бұрын

LIDAR BATHYMETRY MENTIONED!

@FreakzWasTaken 27 күн бұрын

I think parents are definitely the target audience here, not kids. No effort was put in to make the books look interesting. Titles, colors, motives, all of it look boring. Instead, the poster makes sure the audience immediately notices that it is about books, given how much space they take up. Kids are also not sold by seeing something that includes depictions of kids percieved to have fun, parents are. Kids are sold by seeing something that looks fun. And kids tend to not pay attention to what day of the month it is, which means weekdays at the bottom would have been more appropriate if they were the target audience. Furthermore, the point about books being adventures is presented very subtly, hidden in metaphors. If kids were the target audience, this would have been depicted way more clearly. What can make this tricky to see, is that when adverticing towards parents, it is usually quite effective to falsely make it appear as if the intended audience is the kids themselves. That way it is more hidden to the parent that they are being persuaded and they are more likely to feel like they themselves came up with the idea of having their kids go to the book week for instance, than if the poster had more directly stated that it wants them to take their kids there.