by Alexander Sharp | Aug 7, 2022
I’ve always been a big fan of Jonathan Swift despite frequently disagreeing with him. I wrote this piece for Dr. Incorvati’s English 280 class at Wittenberg. I think it was called “Survey of British English” or something like that. It’s...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 21, 2022
I wrote this rhetorical analysis for Dr. Strain’s Rhetorical Theory class at the University of Dayton. At the time I taught a class where I assigned a rhetorical analysis of this Stephen Jay Gould essay. It seemed only right to give myself the same assignment. While...
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 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...
