"What you should I analyze in the two new rhetorical analysis?"

Patrice wrote asking what messages/rhetorical situations I wanted you to focus on in the rhetorical analysis you are doing this week. It's an excellent question, and until she pointed it out, I hadn't realized how vague my description was. It just goes to show that any author profits from feedback from his audience. Thanks Patrice.

In any event, here's my reply to her question:

Look at instances of communication which have taken place in this class. With over 600 emails already exchanged, there's a lot of possible messages and rhetorical situations you could analyze. The message/rhetorical situation you pick to analyze could be an email which was sent, a post to the blog by me, a piece written by another student, etc. The only limitation I'm setting is that it should be an instance of rhetoric used in this class.

What I am trying to get y'all to notice is how rhetoric can work in the dynamics of the classroom. If I was too make a recommendation, I would suggest picking two messages to analyze which you thought accomplished the author's purpose very well, and--since you probably don't want to be a professor and will learn more from looking at the effective rhetoric used by a peer--focus on the work of a successful author in the class.