Describe the assumed views/beliefs/values of Rizga’s intended audience based on a close reading of the text as well as a consideration of the readership of an online publication like Mother Jones.
Analyzing a text rhetorically means examining it in its rhetorical situation: when and where it was published, who the intended audience is, the kind of appeals the author utilizes, etc. To put it another way, you are attempting to view the text in context, describing the factors that make the author’s thesis more or less […]