Overview Write a proposal that describes the text you will analyze for the Analysis Essay and outlines your plan for completing the analysis. Assignment Now that you've done some invention work and received feedback on your initial choices for this project, you will develop a formal proposal that describes the plans you will use for the Analysis Essay assignment . This proposal should begin by naming the text you want to analyze. It should then explain why you find the text relevant to a specific issue that affects the community you have decided to write about. Justify your response: why is this a good text to analyze? How does breaking down the text help an audience understand the issue that is affecting the community? Finally, the proposal should discuss the most important terms you will use to explain how the text works and outline the writing strategies and rhetorical tools you plan to use in order to analyze the text. Look back at the sections on "analysis" and "rhetorical tools" in CEL Ch.6 (169-176) to help you articulate your response. From this proposal, a reader should be able to understand that you are using ethical decision-making skills to plan your analysis. In other words, the proposal needs to show that you are thinking carefully about your own point of view and planning to remain even as you are analyzing a text that represents other perspectives. Length and Formatting Format : Typed, double-spaced, submitted as a word-processing document. 12 point, text-weight font, 1-inch margins. Length : 250 words words (approx. 1 page) Value : This project will be graded out of 20 possible points, and will be be included in the Unit 3 grade for this course. Grading This project will be graded out of 20 possible points, and will be be included in the Unit 3 project grade for this course. Additionally, you must complete a full proposal before your Unit 3 Analysis Essay will be accepted . Objectives Reiterating what was outlined above, in this proposal, you should Clearly articulate your choices about the issue you are choosing to write about, as well as the communities to whom the issue matters. Demonstrate that you are thinking critically about the texts you have chosen to analyze Show that you understand how to use rhetorical tools and analytical strategies to break down the text and write about how it works. Explain how the text you are choosing to analyze relates to the issue and represents one or more communities invested in the issue Justify your decisions in choosing a text to analyze and focusing on the values of one or more particular communities. Example Sample Proposal The text that I am proposing to analyze is "' Why I Won’t Buy an Ipad,' by Cory Doctorow, published on the BoingBoing website (Links to an external site.) in April 2010. In the text, Doctorow effectively uses appeals to logos to achieve his goal of convincing people not to buy an Ipad. The issue at hand in this essay is se.