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- Task:

Locate and read a recent (less than 3 years old) newspaper opinion piece or a brief personal essay that speaks a person’s experiences and beliefs. (If

you don’t find much in the article for your analysis,
select a different article.)
1. If you have trouble locating an article, try starting here:
  1. Miami Herald Op-Eds:
  2. Miami Times Editorials:

Write a 750-word embodied rhetorical analysis of the article, focusing on how the author used their own experiences, culture, gender, positionalities, and physicalities in order to persuade the audience.
1. Include at least 3 brief quotes for examples of these moments. Be sure to analyze these quotes (in other words, explain how they fit into the theories of intersectionality).
2. You may also find that the rhetorical frames of ethos and pathos are useful here. Just a quick reminder, ethos is persuasion based on credibility and pathos is persuasion based on emotion.
3. Include at least one paragraph at the end describing why this particular approach was or was not effective for you as a reader given your own particular experiences, histories, positionalities, etc. So you’ll need not only to refer to the text, but refer to your own response to the text and then explain that response in terms of your own embodied experiences.