by Alexander Sharp | Jun 15, 2022
Almost no one gets political rhetoric right. Candidates spend millions on polling, focus testing, A/B testing, and engaging in every other conceivable way to narrow rhetoric into quantifiable pieces, and yet very rarely does a politician have the ability to...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 7, 2021
Who doesn’t have a Gatsby paper? My interpretation of The Great Gatsby is not the most conventional view, so you may find this paper about Nick Carraway to actually be a unique take. I wrote this for Dr. Davis’ “20th Century Literature” class...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 7, 2021
I originally wanted to write my thesis about the rhetoric of science. After months of study and hashing out various arguments, I couldn’t agree on a topic with my thesis advisor. She thought what I wanted to do would work for a Ph.D thesis where I could spend...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 4, 2021
This is a rather odd rhetorical analysis. It was an assignment for Dr. Strain’s Rhetorical Theory class at The University of Dayton. The assignment was to look at the same artifact using two different rhetorical lenses and then contrast the two. I went...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 3, 2021
This rhetorical analysis of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Harlan, Kentucky” was the first thing I wrote for grad school. I like how it combines pronouns and rhetoric, but what I like most is that it does not depend on any “theoretical lens,” which...