RA Paper

My rhetorical analysis, "'Is Facebook Overrated?': Hamilton's generalizations about social networks" starts off by making a very concise and easy-to-read summary of the original article to get the audience on the same page. The title is very self-explanatory, giving idea of what is going to be analyzed and how. After the title and summary, the introduction of this paper ends up with a strong and straightforward thesis, stating all the tools and appeals the author of the original article relied on and the effectiveness of the argument to be analyzed. This gives field for the body paragraphs to start describing every tool specifically and updates the readers on what's coming next. The introduction captures the reader's attention quickly, and it doesn't give out many details to make him (the reader) become interested and read the whole paper. 

Each body paragraph starts identifying the topic or tool that will be analyzed, relating them to their type of appeal and how these are ineffective and why. The analysis does not look biased, however, because the author is given a chance and I analyze her intentions and why she believes her tools are effective to support her argument, and if they are, in fact. Fallacies are recognized and explained, and each strategy used is analyzed objectively and several quotes and paraphrases are presented in the body paragraphs to support the analysis.

The audience is analyzed too, giving the reader an idea of how the article is going to affect or not its audience. The language used throughout the analysis is fluent, easy to understand and there is certainly a voice present, giving the paper personality. The paragraphs are coherent, the sentences are related to each other and have a good flow when reading them, and grammar and punctuation are used correctly. MLA format rules are respected. 

The conclusion summarizes the analysis in a concise, fluent way, closing the paper very strongly. It doesn't get too long and it focuses the important points of the paper, mentioning the strategies and their appeals and wether they are effective or not and suggesting possible actions that could make a better opinion article. It makes a good conclusion because it is very straightforward and summarizes exactly what the introduction and body paragraphs say in a paragraph without neglecting any important pieces of the paper.