Rhetorical Analysis 4 - Paper A

Rhetorical Analysis 3 - Paper A: Word Count = 266

My first persuasive paper had promise but got a little misdirected. The argument settles in as an approach to show that the Liberty Square Apartment complex has a fallible check-out schedule that will eventually damage their reputation. Obviously, it is directed toward the management team of Liberty Square with the goal standing as a change in their policy for residents checking-out, hoping that maybe it will be easier for other in the future. Also, I like the people that work there, so I just don’t want them to be penalized for a short-sighted policy that’s unfair for tenants.

The vast majority of the argument was made by an appeal to logos. The logic that I work on is simple; what hurts your reputation will hurt your profits. This implicit assumption ended up being the main focus. That’s where I went wrong. Instead of working hard to prove that the undesirable check-out procedure damages their reputation (which will in turn negatively impact their bottom line), I meandered on supporting the assumption. Although the argument toward the implicit assumption is well-made, that’s not the correct outline. I didn’t have sufficient information to tie the claim and reason together like I ought to have had. From further an analysis of the paper, it was still typical style for a persuasive writing as well as being accurate in its attempt to inform. The relevancy of the information was a slight miss, but that’s due to the missed focus of the essay. Actually, it seems that with a little bit of tweaking in a revision, the paper could be very effective.