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RHETORICAL ANALYSIS:

• Overview of Ethos, Pathos, Logos as Appeals to Audience
• Understanding Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Advertising

ANNOTATION involves creating your own way of marking up a text and creating a personalized but organized method of extracting and using the information you have gathered as you read a text.  Here are some examples of annotated texts:

FUTURE USAGE TIP  Annotating is a skill that is used  in many assignments, including Summary Response essays.  Scroll down for more information on Summary Response strategies.

Before you can write a quality summary response essay, you should concentrate on your close reading and annotation skills.

CLOSE READING involves asking questions about the text as you read it (or about a film as you watch it):

• What is the theme of the story, essay, or film?  What is the author trying to relate to an audience?
• What are the important details provided in the text?  How do the details contribute to the theme?
• How does the author use his or her tools (images, word choices, certain scenes or information) to support the ideas expressed in the text?

For more information on close reading, click here:

• How to Do Close Reading
• Writing About Literature and Fiction_Avoiding Pitfalls

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS:

• How to Write a Comparative Analysis