What I have learned is that rhetoric has a great focus in language with regard to how it is written, spoken and visually interpreted. Rhetoric focuses on language and looks at how language shapes the way we as students, researchers, etc look at topics and subjects and directs our viewpoint based language. My Rhetorical analysis was about an artifact from the Stanford Daily and it was a study that looked at the students from Stanford University and their mental health. With the use of statistics, scholarly sources and an in-depth look at the three rhetorical appeals related to my topic. I created an analysis that was arguing that students do not receive the help they need for one of two reasons. Number one, they are not aware of the resources available to them, or reason two, that they simply do not choose to use the resources because they feel ashamed to ask for help making themselves feel vulnerable to an ”outsider” in their life. The artifact below is what I selected to base my analysis around, and it proved to be a great platform to build from as it offered many different talking points which I brought up in my Rhetorical analysis.
Listed below is a copy of my full Rhetorical Analysis