Timing of Rhetorical Analysis

It helps you finish quickly without understanding the passage.

It allows you to organize your thoughts and respond effectively.

It ensures you use complex vocabulary.

It guarantees a perfect score every time.

Use shorthand for annotation

Mark every repeated word regardless of relevance

Focus on strong rhetorical choices

Find a system that works for you

Using shorthand and focusing on strong choices

Highlighting every word and rewriting the passage

Ignoring rhetorical choices and reading quickly

Annotating only the introduction and conclusion

Getting flustered

Using the word 'use'

Forgetting the thesis formulas

Writing too quickly

Thesis completed

Choices identified in each chunk

Evidence highlighted

Developing commentary

Annotate the rhetorical situation, write main idea in margins, underline key lines, study key lines, look for the rhetorical situation, chunk passage/identify shifts, identify rhetorical choices, write thesis, write essay

Read the passage, summarize the text, write a conclusion, submit the essay

Underline every sentence, write a summary, skip the rhetorical situation, write essay

Write the introduction, list rhetorical devices, skip annotation, write essay