Prompt: Today, you learned how to complete a rhetorical analysis planning guide step by step, from identifying the rhetorical situation to analyzing devices and effects. Reflect on one step of the rhetorical analysis process that helped you understand the process more clearly. Explain what you learned during that step and how it improved your ability to analyze a speaker’s message.

One step of the rhetorical analysis planning that helped me understand the process better is understanding rhetorical situation. By better understanding this step I learned to better understand the context of rhetoric, which helps me better understand its usage as well. Understanding rhetorical analysis has helped me better understand rhetoric and makes the rhetorical analysis process much easier.

Summary: Today we went over the steps in a rhetorical analysis.

Reflection: I bettered my knowledge on how to construct a rhetorical analysis.