In his Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs urges students to embrace their failures through his use of figurative language, repetition, and personal stories.
Rhetorical Analysis WS: BP Organization
The following essay outlines demonstrate two ways you could organize your body paragraphs.
Consider which one of these models would be appropriate for your essay, depending on the rhetorical choices you’ve decided to analyze.
Organize by Rhetorical Choice
In this essay, the writer uses each body paragraph to analyze one key rhetorical strategy the speaker uses throughout the whole text.
Thesis Statement
Body Paragraph 1
analyze how Jobs uses figurative language
Body Paragraph 2
analyze how Jobs uses repetition
Body Paragraph 3
analyze how Jobs uses personal stories
Organize by Parts of the Text
Here, the writer uses each paragraph to analyze the choices the speaker makes in one section of the speech.
Thesis Statement
In his Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs tells three stories from his life to urge students to embrace their failures.
Body Paragraph 1
analyze the rhetorical choices in Jobs’s first story
Body Paragraph 2
analyze the rhetorical choices in Jobs’s second story
Body Paragraph 3
analyze the rhetorical choices in Jobs’s third story
- Jobs, Steve. Stanford commencement address. “‘You’ve Got to Find What You Love,’ Jobs Says,” Stanford News, Stanford University, 14 June 2005, news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505.