Text Component
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“Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students”
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Subject
What is the subject or topic of the piece?
What theme or big idea do you see?
What is this piece about?
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Occasion
What event or occasion do you think caused the author to write this piece?
Immediate event? Larger event in society / world that may have influenced?
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Audience
To whom is the author writing? How do you know?
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Purpose
What does the author want you to believe or understand?
What is the purpose of the text?
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Speaker
What do we know about the speaker?
How does his/her background affect his point of view on the subject? Education? Roles in society? Beliefs? Values?
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Tone
What is the attitude of the speaker or writer as revealed by the choice of vocabulary?
Tone words: academic, formal, informal, sarcastic, humorous, informative, reflective, persuasive, casual, argumentative, passionate, cautionary, condescending, respectful, etc.
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THEN, you and (possibly) your partner will collaborate to write a rhetorical precis for the text. You may choose to work alone or in pairs. Please complete your precis on a single sheet of lined paper. Be sure both of you contribute your handwriting!
Below are a few supports and reminders:
Sentence 1: Note the name of the author, the genre and title of the work, and the
publication date in parentheses; a rhetorically accurate verb; and a "that clause" containing the major assertion or thesis statement in the work.
Sentence 2: An explanation of how the author develops and supports the thesis, usually in chronological order.
Sentence 3: A statement of the author’s apparent purpose, followed by an “in order to” phrase.
Sentence 4: A description of the intended audience, the relationship the author establishes with the audience, or both.
For you visual learners, here is a frame of what each sentence should look like:
And here are definitions for each part of the frame:
