Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Rhetorical Analysis Thesis
Richard Rhodes's "The Media Violence Myth" is an effective argument which convinces those under the impression that media violence directly causes real-world violence to alter their views and stop blaming the media on violence issues because it uses logic through statistics, with effective diction, and procatalepsis to ward off any negative emotion, in order to prove the lack of detrimental correlation between media and real-world violence.
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Wow, that is an impressively long run-on sentence. :)
ReplyDeleteYou can hone the wording of this thesis (add in some more punctuation!), but all of the components look great (depending on what you find for "procatalepsis" you might end up calling it something else--but this looks good for now).
I would replace "because it uses logic through" with "through the use of logic by using..." Or even "through the use of logos and pathos" - pathos because diction is pathos.
ReplyDelete"Prove the lack of detrimental correlation" seems to prove the lack of a correlation, so if you're suggesting that there is only positive correlation, I would make that clear (that there is *some* correlation left. If there was no correlation left, I would leave out "detrimental".)