The question about ‘why’ probes about the purpose or function of the writing of texts. Sometimes the purpose of the text has been stated by the author. Sometimes it is a hidden agenda, in which the exegete wants to reveals the purpose of the author by applying all critical approaches.
The question about ‘how’ searches the processes by which a writing came into existence. Source criticism helps much to exegete in this endeavour. Form criticism also helps to examine the forms and particular ecclesial settings of the material. Once source material is included in the final form of writing, it is edited or redacted to fit this new context. Asking questions about this editing is called redaction criticism.
Source Criticism guides the exegete to know the important questions relating to the source of the chosen biblical text to preaching. It helps the exegete to understand thorough understanding of the written text. The exegete now turns to the form critical method from the idea acquired in source criticism.
3.3. Form Criticism:
The Biblical text should be analysed according to their form. The form of the text has been occurred in a history for a particular reason. The form has to identify by the exegete. The exegete could not locate the message properly without the understanding of the form of the text. Form criticism analyses oral traditions of the scripture text. Kenton L. Sparks says that;
Form criticism is a method to trace out history of the form of the Biblical text.
Analyzations of Stylistic Techniques
Imagine the pain of being separated from your family. The pain of losing your home. The pain of losing all hope in humanity. As Elie Weisel steps up to begin his speech, 4,817 miles away children in Kosovo felt that pain; this was a pain that Weisel was able to relate to. As a survivor of the holocaust losing his family and home was not something new.
Chapter four Journal
In this chapter, the author looks at hermeneutics in a much broader sense, which is much less exact than the exegesis tool. The author again reminds readers that “a text cannot mean what it never could have meant for its original readers or hearers” (Fee and Stuart, 77). That is why the exegesis must come first. So in summary, the basic rule is not to be used alone, but it can always inform the reader as to what a passage cannot mean.
Now, the framework I decided to use for this article through analyzing is Lloyd Bitzer’s Rhetorical Situation. In his rhetorical situation, he explains how every situation can be analyzed rhetorically by looking at the interactions between speakers, subjects, audience and purpose. A rhetoric piece of work comes into existence for the sake of something far greater than the piece itself. In each rhetoric situation, he explains how there’s three main variables that come into play. First, you gave the exigence, which is the “reason.”
This component of her writing style gives her audience information to take in and formulate opinions on. These components also add value to the purpose of her essay and add to her
In the essay, “On Compassion”, writer Barbara Lazear Ascher used resources style and rhetoric to convey her attitude such as the use of questions, ethos, pathos and logos, figurative language, imagery, and tone. This way, Ascher’s writing was well organized and well put together meanwhile giving the readers a chance to analyze and comprehend the text and understand Ascher’s views. Ascher begins her essay in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York; a place known to be where the wealth lives and idea of compassion falls. Yet as a typical New Yorker (Barbara Ascher), random acts of compassion can be seen but are not enough given awareness. This is where Ascher’s thesis falls in.
For instance, in my first paragraph, I point out Bettelheim’s claims and his tactics for convicting them to the reader "Bettelheim incorporates pathos (emotional appeal), logos (logic), personal appeal, and prior knowledge into his writing to engage his reader." Furthermore, I describe the methods that are used by Bettelheim to simplify some of the claims so his readers could comprehend. In the first few drafts I had a hard time catching sight of the techniques Bettelheim used to convey his claims, but now I can read a passage and recognize the writer's claims and comprehend the techniques he or she uses to convey the message
Identify how the creator of the texts uses the conventions of the text type to meet their purpose and audience.
The texts Letter from Birmingham Jail and Address to Garma Festival by Martin Luther King Jnr and Anthony Albanese used conventions to convey the purpose and target their audience .
The use of these tactics allow for the the author to convey his purpose and message in such a way that it is not immediately rejected and the thought remains a possibility to be thought
Rhetorical Analysis of Professional Writing
Introduction
A rhetorical analysis assignment is investigating how the author presents his or her work to a certain group that he or she intended to present. Genre such as news and magazine has a lot of rhetorical analysis to a certain interest’s group. The document will be analyzed today written by Christine Bannan.
Understanding Why I Write
Different writers have their own opinion of why they write and what motives them to write. English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, George Orwell writes an essay on why he writes. Explaining his four motives. Orwell believes those four motives are sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. Throughout his essay called, Why I Write, Orwell uses different strategies to get to his audience such as, persona, diction, cumulative sentences.
Historical criticism strives to cognize a literary work by examining the social, cultural, and intellectual context that essentially includes the artist’s biography and milieu. Historical critics are more concerned with guiding readers through the use of identical connotation rather than analyzing the work’s literary significance. (Brizee and Tompkins). The journey of a historical reading begins with the assessment of how the meaning of a text has altered over time. In many cases, when the historical context of a text is not fully comprehended, the work literature cannot be accurately interpreted.
The word “critical” often conjures the incorrect image of negativity. If the Four Gospels are to be analysed critically would this study find loopholes only? This need not be the case, as the Four Gospels, and the Bible as a whole, has withstood the test of time. As a stand-alone text, the Bible has proven its accuracy in its portrayal of events, its authorship, and its date of writing. Though scholars have tried to use both textual and literary criticism to discredit the Four Gospels, there are an equal number of scholars, using these same tools, who have proved that the Four Gospels have an accurate portrayal of events.
