During today's class, we worked on the tone mapping technique, a visual method to comprehend tone shifts and patterns in writing for rhetorical analysis.
So, how do you create a tone map?
1. Read the text and make sure you understand the content and the author's purpose
2. Identify tone shifts - I usually draw a line
3. Specify the type of tone used in each section of the text - do not repeat the same tone word throughout the activity.
4. Select 2 of the tone words to construct a range - all the other tone words should be within these two words
5. Construct a map
6. Analyze the tone patterns
We will complete steps 5 & 6 on Friday. If you were part of the absent group, you will have to complete this activity fairly quickly.
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