Write a rhetorical analysis of Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “The Disaster We Must Think About Every Day”
Evaluate the effectiveness of the text’s argument, presenting a thesis-driven analysis that addresses the reasoning for your judgement. In doing so, your essay should analyze the rhetorical choices the author makes, exploring the author/argument’s credibility (ethos), its use of logical appeals (logos), and its use of emotional appeals (pathos). You should also attend to the text’s tone, diction (word choice), organization and anything else that you feel helps to make the argument convincing or unconvincing to its intended audience. The thesis for your rhetorical analysis should answer the question: Is the text effective in persuading its intended audience and why?