Rhetorical Analysis Of Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream

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Rhetorical Analysis Reflection of “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream” In “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream,” by Randy Pausch we open with a title slide, but fail to be informed of the author’s name or his target audience until further on in the presentation. This resulted in a less than adequate opening paragraph thus deducting points from the overall score. Looking into the actual rhetorical analysis piece of the presentation there really is none. His work is not compared to others, he has no writing strategies, and states his own opinion. All of these losses earned him a deduction in points. Pausch used good tone and kept with his overall theme, but was difficult to grade since he failed to reflect on another's work. He does not

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