Blog Post IV

Chapter six will probably be the most helpful yet the most boring chapter you will have to read. A lot of the material covered in this section discusses the discovery, organization, and the validity of the sources that you will use in a rhetorical analysis. The best sources you can use and reference are peer reviewed journal articles. Florida State University is a major research facility that has access to a plethora of libraries to search from. By searching key words in your text, the database will pull up and locate titles that relate to your subject. Once you find a few journals and familiarize yourself with the material, you should always check to see if it is valid. A good indication if journal is valid, check the publisher and the authors that wrote it. If it has statistics, try to compare their findings with others. Sometimes people suck and they embellish their findings to make them seem like the way they conducted the research is the most effective way, or their results did not yield to what they were expecting. The best way to add to the community discussion with your rhetorical analysis is to make sure it is similar to the other findings, so it can strengthen the theory and be used as a basis to discover more probable topics in the future.