Organize your paper in the following order:

Your task in this assignment is to analyze the rhetorical strategies a
chosen Ted Talk speaker uses.
Essay should be 2-3 pages, in MLA with a separate work cited page.
ONLY the talk should be referenced.
Have at least one direct quote in each body paragraph.
How does the speaker use ethos, pathos,
and logos to persuade the audience?
Organize your paper in the following order:
INTRODUCTION
Begin with a hook/attention grabber
Introduce your text and author, describe
briefly the argument you are analyzing, and
supply the necessary background
State your thesis as the last sentences
(sentences) of the introduction paragraph
Discuss the following ideas in this paragraph(s):
–How does the argument you are analyzing repeat arguments previously made by the author?
–What motivated the author to write? What is the author’s purpose for writing this argument?
–Who is the anticipated audience?
–How do the occasion and forum for writing affect the
argument?
–How would the argument have been written differently if it
had appeared elsewhere?
–What motivated the newspaper or magazine (or other venue)
to publish it?
–When did the argument appear?
–Why did it get published at that particular moment?
–What other concurrent pieces of “cultural
conversation” (e.g., TV shows, other articles,
speeches, Web sites) does the item you are
analyzing respond to or “answer”?