Write a thesis-driven analysis, complemented by secondary sources, of an aspect of rhetoric in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. You will also compare and contrast Mandel’s novel with other texts’ messages about technology, art, hidden intellectualism, or feminism, and/or use of the post apocalyptic genre. 5-7 pages.
Consider this assignment an opportunity to further explore and expand a line of analysis that you beganwith the first three essays and then develop that analysis into a more complete and complex argument.You will now write a more expansive rhetorical analysis of Station Eleven. Your rhetorical analysis can delve into message, audience, rhetor, historical and/or social context or even a combination of these aspects. How does Mandel’s text conform to and challenge the conventions of the genre, and to what effect? What message—or messages—is Mandel trying to convey through her chosen genre? What is she trying to tell her audience about art, hidden intellectualism, technology, gender, performance vs. real life,etc.? Why does she choose to do so through a post-apocalyptic novel? Who is Mande’s intended audience, and how does her text demonstrate an awareness of this audience?Include secondary sources to strengthen your argument as part of the academic discourse community.Show that you can situate and integrate sources into your argument so that it exists as part of an ongoing dialogue among multiple parties involving the text being analyzed. Your task is not to only restate what these sources have said, but to engage and provide insightful responses as a member of this academic discourse community. Sources can include relevant essays from They Say / I Say, post-apocalyptic fiction(“Diary of an Interesting Year”), film (Wall-E, Snowpiercer), and television (The Walking Dead), articles on the post-apocalyptic genre, the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive,” or even Louis C.K.’s joke about airplanes. These sources can be used to support your arguments, to compare and contrast similar messages being articulated through different forms, or, vice versa, to compare and contrast similar forms articulating different messages. Either way, your analysis of the novel should extend beyond the text itself as you contextualize it with other sources, thereby placing it in a larger conversation.A minimum of 3 secondary sources, not including the primary text being analyzed, must be used to develop the essay. A works cited will be required as part of the final draft.
Outcomes for RA• Develops clear cogent analyses and convincing arguments about rhetorical choices• Identifies and articulates genre expectations, situating the text at hand within a larger conversation in a particular rhetorical situation, with a particular audience• Selects credible and pertinent material from readings and outside texts to support a point or argument as well as illustrates awareness of viewpoints and competing arguments• Situates, integrates, and contextualizes different types of evidence effectively while distinguishing thewriter’s voice from those of sources.
Demonstrates effective organization and style – for a particular purpose, within a particular genre, to a particular audience•Develops understanding of and mastery of rhetorical choices within genre conventions, and develops an awareness of how writers must make careful decisions based on purpose, audience and argument to execute project/writing professionally across writing situations•
Rewrites and edits language, style, tone, and sentence structure according to genre and audience expectations•
Practices applying citation conventions systematically in their own work

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