Sofiane Filouane

11/14/17
English 5M

Rhetorical Analysis

I chose the Rhetorical Analysis essay from my English 1 class because it is something I
remember doing clearly. What we had to do for this paper was pick five articles and analyze
them rhetorically. The article I chose was When the Pepper spray wont go away by the
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board. This article was about how a police officer was pepper
spraying innocent civilians in the face so the campus hired consultants to improve the online
reputations of UC Davis and Chancellor Linda Katehi. I had to write about what the article was
about using context, logos, pathos, and ethos along with what rhetorical choices the author used.
The paper had to be 3 pages long double spaced Times New Roman 12 font. It was pretty
difficult at first but then after looking at the prompt and the article it was easier to write. I was
able to write so much after understanding exactly what we had to write about on the essay, I had
to read the prompt over and over again to finally understand what to write about.
I needed to write the essay to understand the article more and to understand what a
rhetorical analysis paper is and how to write one. I needed to write this paper so it can help me in
my future English classes in case I ever had to write a paper like this again. An Example from
Grant-Davie, Keiths article Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents. He talked about
what makes up rhetorical situations and how to have an improved grasp of what rhetoric is. Here
is an example from the article In many rhetorical situations, there may be several rhetors,
including groups of people or institutions, and the discourse may address or encounter several
audiences with various purposes for reading (Grant, 266).
This quote means that there are different audiences like groups of people or institutions
and it involves audiences with various purposes for reading. This relates to the piece of writing I
chose, because it involved different audiences and it involved rhetorical analysis and the four
constituents, in the article he talked about exigence as well in the rhetorical analysis and the
different situations about rhetorical analysis. From the piece of writing I talked about exigence to
describe the article. The context of the essay was from my English 1 class I talk about this
throughout this essay.
 What led to this essay was the teacher showed us what articles we had to write about then
we had to pick one and write about it. This is what led to writing this paper. The constraints I
faced as a writer was there had to be a certain limit for the paper this is something I always
struggle with. It had to be about one specific article. I had to stay in the framework of the
rhetorical situation. When it came to the audience, it was meant for the instructor. I wanted her to
read it and grade it and give me feedback. The writing was supposed to engage the reader, by
explaining how the article worked rhetorically.
The major chosen is Social Work. Social Work is work carried out by trained personnel
with the aim of alleviating the conditions of those in need of help or welfare. Writing in Social
Work is to convey ideas, whether its students, other social scientists, or the general population.
Its the way to share knowledge, findings, and/or information. Social Work also uses writing to
display connections between theories, challenge theories, or extend theories. Its the main role
of communication, and the best way to locate new findings and discussions in the field.
Furthermore Social Work uses reading, writing, and researching to explore questions about
how humans interact. Nothing seems to be unimportant, everything in this field is important
there are a lot of requirements to be completed for this field every little piece of information is
important. Also to become a Social Worker a bachelor's degree is required to start your
education. The exigence of Social work is to improve a societys overall wellbeing, especially
for the most vulnerable populations. The context of Social Work where it came from it came
from Jane Addams who was a founder of of the U.S Settlement House Movement to establish
settlement houses in poor urban areas.
Social Work began by concentrating on casework and the scientific method, and the
American Association of Hospital Social Workers established in 1918 to boost formal education
opportunities in social work. The audience for Social Work are Students who want to major in
Social Work, and Social Workers working in a department reading this will help them learn more
about Social Work.
Writing in Social Work is very difficult and requires a lot of work, Social Workers are
used to the difficult content required for a class such as Social Work 95. Sofiane uses a personal
story and tells his extensive research in the area, to make his readers believe in his credibility.
This class had a lot of work to be completed. Students had to volunteer for 30 hours to pass the
class along with two papers that dealt with the volunteering. Yes the writing chosen for part 1
would be a good paper because the paper chosen deals with information from the field of Social
Work even though it was an assignment for an English class.
Another reason is Social Work deals with research, knowledge, and other important
information, an example from the CSUS Handbook Social scientists often conduct research
using quantitative methods (methods that result in numbers and statistics) and qualitative
methods (methods focused on observing, describing, and analyzing social behavior, social
artifacts, and social institutions).
This quote illustrates that Social Workers, research social behavior and social institutions,
basically they order and structure the behavior of individuals by means of their normative
character. The rhetorical analysis from English 1, dealt with research and social institutions. This
involved looking up what the purpose of the article was. This is similar to writing in Social Work
because it involves finding the purpose behind the research.
Principles drawn from the CSUS Handbook will help with Social Work and the classes
within the major, because there is a lot of essays in the field along with a lot of research and this
will help me in the future when I take more Social Work classes. To continue the rhetorical
analysis paper from English 1 it compares and does not compare to writing in Social Work it
does not compare because in Social Work you do not have to learn about rhetorical analysis but
writing about what the article meant kind of deals with Social Work because you are finding
information.
Writing in Social Work is very difficult and requires a lot of work, Social Workers are
used to the difficult content required for a class such as Social Work 95. This class had a lot of
work to be completed. Students had to volunteer for 30 hours to pass the class along with two
papers that dealt with the volunteering. Students learned that it takes a lot of hard work to be a
Social Worker you have to earn your undergraduate degree, get volunteer experience in the field,
complete a master's degree program, get supervised experience following graduation finding an
entry level job and moving up the ladder. So if you ever want to be a Social Worker prepare for
all the work you have to do along with the requirements for the field it will not be easy.
Some examples are Social Worker jobs are Caseworker 4 years experience, inpatient
Social Worker, Social Worker Part time, and Caseworker. To conclude when I have major
writing assignments for a class this type of paper will help me because it talks about exigence,
constraints, and contexts. I understand these three terms now so if I have a major writing
assignments they will help me especially if the paper involves these three terms.