Genre Analysis Prompt 

This assignment asks you to produce a thesis-driven analysis, complemented by secondary sources, of an aspect of rhetoric in an assigned text. 

Outcomes

• Develops clear cogent analyses and convincing arguments about rhetorical choices
• Identifies and articulates genre expectations, situating the text at hand within a larger conversation in a particular rhetorical situation, with a particular audience
• Selects credible and pertinent material from readings and outside texts to support a point or argument as well as illustrates awareness of viewpoints and competing arguments
• Situates, integrates, and contextualizes different types of evidence effectively while distinguishing the writer’s voice from those of sources.
• Demonstrates effective organization and style – for a particular purpose, within a particular genre, to a particular audience
• Develops understanding of and mastery of rhetorical choices within genre conventions, and develops an awareness of how writers must make careful decisions based on purpose, audience and argument to execute project/writing professionally across writing situations
• Rewrites and edits language, style, tone, and sentence structure according to genre and audience expectations
• Practices applying citation conventions systematically in their own work
• Plans and executes a revision process that does not rely only on direction from the instructor, developing ownership of both process and product to revise purposefully

Assignment
Consider this assignment an opportunity to further explore and expand a line of analysis that you began with your Critical Reading exercises and then develop that analysis into a more complete and complex argument. You will now write a more expansive rhetorical analysis of your primary text. Your rhetorical analysis can delve into message, audience, rhetor, historical and/or social context or even a combination of these aspects.

Include secondary sources to strengthen your argument as part of the academic discourse community. Show that you can situate and integrate credible sources into your argument so that it exists as part of an ongoing dialogue among multiple parties involving the text being analyzed. Your task is not to only restate what these sources have said, but to engage and provide insightful responses as a member of this academic discourse community.

Basic requirements
Length: 1500-1800 words, typed, double-spaced, and presented in MLA format.

A minimum of four (4) secondary sources, not including the primary text being analyzed, must be used to develop the essay. A works cited page will be required as part of the final draft.

primary sources:

Haunting of hill house:

http://themiltondoddreaders.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/8/1/10819822/jackson_-_the_haunting_of_hill_house.pdf

the yellow wallpaper:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

Davison

https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.ntu.edu.sg/dist/6/2252/files/2017/08/SS2-Davison-Haunted-House-23t66g5.pdf