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Rhetorical Analysis Essay Outline



Thesis: (asserts an evaluative judgment about the effectiveness of text)

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Topic Sentence #1: (makes a sub-claim that develops the evaluation made in the thesis)


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Support: (textual evidence* that develops your TS#1 claim)


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Topic Sentence #2: (makes a new sub-claim that develops the evaluation made in the thesis)


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Support: (textual evidence* that develops your TS#2 claim)

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Topic Sentence #3: (makes another new sub-claim that develops the evaluation made in the thesis)


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Rhetorical Analysis Essay Outline
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Support: (textual evidence* that develops your TS#3 claim)

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Topic Sentence #4: (makes a final new sub-claim that develops the evaluation made in the thesis)


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Support: (textual evidence* that develops your TS#4 claim)

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* Types of Textual Evidence *

Briefly quoted passage (two Summary of a section
 Description of structural Select diction choices 

lines maximum) of the article choices the author makes and their connotations

Discussion of the impact


Discussion of the types of
particular source makes on
evidence the author uses (e.g. Description of organizational
readers (using the NRDC when Description of the author’s tone
statistics, expert testimony, choices the author makes
the audience is comprised of and its impact on readers
hypothetical examples, etc.)
environmentalists, for example)

These are only a few examples of the types of textual evidence used in rhetorical analyses. Keep in mind that stronger rhetorical
analyses use a variety of types of textual evidence in each paragraph.

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