Academic Writing 

Please take a moment to review some of the main ideas of the article Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis by Laura Bolin Carroll. Keeping Carroll’s article in mind, choose a blog (one that is trying to persuade) to analyze. For this brief analysis, you will need to analyze the: exigence, purpose, audience, constraints, and argument choices (ethos, pathos, logos) of the piece. After performing this brief analysis explain how blogs/blogging can help you as a writer in the academic writing classroom. Please provide a hyperlink to the blog you are analyzing, and do not forget to correctly title and tag your posts!

 

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