“The Role of Rhetorical Strategies in Critical Interpretation and Argumentative Writing: A Study of The Rabbit Hole Podcast and “A Call to Action for Librarians””

Course Obejctives
This essay is designed to address the following learning outcomes:
Discuss what is involved in the critical interpretation of texts and the role critical thinking plays in developing effective argumentative writing strategies.
Dissect and evaluate complex arguments through selection and response to key passages while paying attention to historical and cultural contexts.
Differentiate between surface and underlying meaning in texts, drawing conclusions about the author’s underlying intents by identifying and analyzing relevant passages; evaluate relevant subtexts.
Outline the structure of an argument and its theoretical and logical sequencing; identify and evaluate types and sufficiency of support.
Synthesize rhetorical strategies such as comparison and contrast, explication, cause and effect etc. into a sustained argument.
Format: MLA
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Final Draft Length: 4-5 pages
Texts: 
The Rabbit Hole podcast series
“A call to action for librarians: Countering conspiracy theories in the age of QAnon” by Stephanie Beene and Katie Greer 
Prompt:
The goal of this essay is for you to identify in the assigned texts three rhetorical strategies: (1) classification-and-division, (2) cause-and-effect, (3) comparison-and-contrast.
For your thesis:
For this essay, you are coming up with your own questions to answer about the texts in relation to the rhetorical strategies named above. It is crucial that you do, in fact, come up with your own question(s) to answer. In the first two essays, I provided you the questions; please look to those as examples as you create your own question(s) for this essay. If you skip this step, this essay will be much more challenging to write than it needs to be.
We arrive at original theses when we ask ourselves original questions. 
Key Terms: 
For this essay, it is also up to you to find Key Terms within the texts to help you organize your paper.