Visual Rhetorical Analysis Assignment

One of the most important aspects of writing, according to the AACU writing rubric, concerns sources and evidence (“Writing Rubric” 2015). The rubric clearly states that an author must use “sources to support ideas in the writing…quotes, if applicable, are generally accurately placed. Citations are correctly formatted in MLA or APA” (2015). The Visual Rhetorical Analysis assignment, for English 1002, demonstrates the trouble I experienced with this significant area in writing (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). Therefore, the revised version of the Visual Rhetorical Analysis demonstrates improvement in the use of sources and evidence as well as in citations, an essential are of writing, because the revisions illustrate proper citations as well as a stronger use of sources, as required by the writing rubric (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015; Brizek, “Revision” 2015; “Writing Rubric 2015).

There are numerous places within the Visual Rhetorical Analysis that demonstrates the absence of proper citation of the sources for the information (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). At the time that the essay addresses the rhetorical aspects of the advertisement being analyzed,

there is the statement that “although the purpose, audience, and tone of an advertisement are some of the most important aspects, the rhetorical triangle and the rhetorical techniques also have an essential role” (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). However, this is information retrieved from a particular source, one that it clearly lacking in the essay. The revised version of his assignment corrects this mistake, adding the proper citation, “(Jack and Pryal 2015)” the source of this information (Brizek, “Revision” 2015).
The Works Cited page of the Visual Rhetorical Analysis demonstrates another error in the MLA format of citations (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015).

According to Purdue Owl, “Entries are listed alphabetically by the author's last name (or, for entire edited collections, editor names). Author names are written last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name” (“MLA” 2015). In the original Visual Rhetorical Analysis, this aspect of the Works Cited page is clearly absent, as the Bandito Brothers was placed on the bottom of the list with Hanlon at the top (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). The simple alteration of the list into alphabetical order, to ensure that it is correctly formatted according to the MLA format, is an improvement in the writing requirements of the rubric (“Writing Rubric”

2015).
Therefore, these revisions of the Visual Rhetorical Analysis, according to the writing rubric and MLA format, demonstrate improvement in the use of sources and citations in my writing (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015; Brizek, “Revision” 2015; “Writing Rubric 2015). According to the rubric, using “sources to support ideas in the writing” is important, as well as the proper format and citations of these sources and the evidence (“Writing Rubric 2015). Because this is such a significant area of writing, the improvements made in the Visual Rhetorical Analysis were an important ad necessary correction in my writing skills, meeting the requirements of the rubric (“Writing Rubric” 2015).