Contrastive-Comparative Rhetorical Analysis paper
Today in the News” (1,500-2,000 words) – Write a
contrastive-comparative rhetorical analysis, focusing on the
rhetorical situations of a US (e.g., The New York Times,
Washington Post) and a national newspaper from your home
country, region, or other nation/region of which you can read
the language (e.g., UK, China, Japan, Mexico). You will
compare the same news story in the two (or more) presses,
using the concepts of rhetoric and rhetorical situation to
explain the similarities
and differences in the stories’ presentations. You may also
choose to compare other newspaper elements such as
comparing the two papers’ front pages, use of photography,
and so forth. When comparing texts, the
stories/headlines/graphics must be from the same day. Your
analysis should define and describe each paper’s rhetorical
situation and use of rhetoric, provide a summary of the
stories’ content, use L1 lexicon for stylistic effect, and provide
enough background information to contextualize the
documents for your readers.
