Write a 3-4 page (double-spaced by MLA guidelines)  rhetorical analysis over “Activist Athletes.” You may find this article beginning on p. 765 of your Everything’s an Argument.  A rhetorical analysis assesses the strengths, weaknesses, and methods used in the writing to inform the readers how well or how poorly the original writer communicated his/her thesis based upon the principles of quality argument and the three appeals. (This is NOT “I liked it; I didn’t like it” nor is this a summary of what the author said.  Your work is NOT agreeing or disagreeing with the source.) A rhetorical analysis requires you to apply critical reading/thinking skills to focus on the aspects of the text, to break off the “parts” of the whole to investigate how the “parts” fit together. The goal of rhetorical analysis is to articulate HOW the author writes, (the effectiveness) not simply WHAT she/he writes and to examine the success (or failure) of the piece based upon the rhetorical elements.