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    This document introduces the SPACE CAT framework for exploring and analyzing rhetoric. It explains that SPACE examines the speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence of a text, while CAT evaluates the choices, appeals, tone used. The framework is presented as a helpful tool for rhetorical analysis that can guide understanding of difficult texts.

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    This document introduces the SPACE CAT framework for exploring and analyzing rhetoric. It explains that SPACE examines the speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence of a text, while CAT evaluates the choices, appeals, tone used. The framework is presented as a helpful tool for rhetorical analysis that can guide understanding of difficult texts.

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    This document introduces the SPACE CAT framework for exploring and analyzing rhetoric. It explains that SPACE examines the speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence of a text, while CAT evaluates the choices, appeals, tone used. The framework is presented as a helpful tool for rhetorical analysis that can guide understanding of difficult texts.

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    This document introduces the SPACE CAT framework for exploring and analyzing rhetoric. It explains that SPACE examines the speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence of a text, while CAT evaluates the choices, appeals, tone used. The framework is presented as a helpful tool for rhetorical analysis that can guide understanding of difficult texts.

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    Exploring Rhetoric

    with

    Space
    cat
    Speaker
    • Who wrote this?
    • What do we know about them?
    • What DON’T we know about them?
    • Does this text have a particular meaning
    because of WHO wrote/said it?

    • Examples: A President giving a speech, a


    citizen sending a Tweet, a newspaper
    staff writing an editorial
    Purpose
    • What is the speaker hoping to accomplish
    by putting this out into the world?
    • Remember that the message itself ≠ the
    purpose.

    • Examples: to inform, to persuade , to


    inspire, to convince
    Audience
    • Who was the actual audience of this
    text? Was that the intended audience?
    • What did the speaker assume about
    their audience? How does that impact
    what they say and how they say it?

    • Examples: TV viewers watching a


    debate, readers of a newspaper, a
    crowd gathered at a rally
    context
    • What was going on in the world when this
    text was produced?
    • What were the biggest issues on the
    speaker’s mind, which they might be
    directly or indirectly addressing?
    • How would this same text be received
    differently by a different audience in or in
    a different time?

    • Examples: MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech


    is given in the context of the Civil Rights
    Movement
    exigence
    • Why “NOW” for the speaker?
    • What was the spark or catalyst that
    moved the speaker to act?
    • Note that context is “happening” all
    the time, but usually an event
    serves as exigence.

    • Examples: The #MeToo movement


    taking off after high profile reports
    of misconduct
    choices
    • This is a CAT-egory of all the little
    moves authors make to enrich
    their writing.
    • Why does the writer make each
    choice?

    • Examples: a speechwriter may


    begin with an anecdote, then move
    to describing a process of change,
    and end with a call to action.
    appeals
    • Appeals to ethics or credibility
    • Appeals to emotion
    • Appeals to logic or reason

    • Examples: Bringing up one’s


    expertise with the topic
    (credibility), telling a moving story
    (emotion), stating facts or
    statistics (logic)
    tone
    • What is the speaker’s attitude at
    different places throughout the text?
    • How can you tell this is their attitude?
    • Where does the tone shift in the piece?

    • Examples: A religious eulogy may


    begin with a mournful tone, then move
    into a comforting or inspirational tone.
    When to use space cat?
    • Rhetorical analysis requires you to
    read and understand what matters
    about a text (SPACE) and comment on
    what specific features make it rich or
    effective (CAT).

    • Don’t panic when exploring a new or


    difficult text…

    SPACE CAT will guide you into the


    unknown!

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