School kills creativity essay

Overview: Now that you have a better understanding of the power of rhetoric to influence/convince a reader, we will look at the way rhetorical strategies are also used with speech. The purpose of this assignment is to listen to a speech, which just like the article and image we analyzed, presents an argument, and analyze the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of this argument.

Prompt: For this assignment, you will watch

Sir Ken Robinson’s Ted Talk titled “How Schools Kill Creativity”
Linda Ciliatt-Wayman’s Ted talk, titled “How to Fix a Broken School? Lead Fearlessly, Love Hard.”
Please watch both of these TedTalks online. Copy and Paste the title into the search bar, and you will locate the videos.
Then, you will write an essay in which you evaluate the ONE of the speaker’s arguments. This, of course, does NOT mean that you should agree or disagree with the speaker; instead, you will provide a deep analysis of the rhetorical strategies the speaker uses to convince his specified audience of his point. You will need to restate his thesis/argument in your own words, identify his targeted audience, and show how he or she did an effective or ineffective job at convincing the audience. Identify the argument and audience in your introduction. Then, in your own thesis, state whether the presented argument is effective or not and spend the body paragraphs focusing on the different strategies and how they are being used.

You are analyzing the way the author presented his or her argument to determine whether it is an effective or ineffective argument.

In order to analyze the argument, you will consider the author’s use of:

Appeals (pathos, logos, ethos)
Assumptions
Logical fallacies
Tone
Types/Strength of evidence
Objectivity/Bias
OR any other points we have discussed or you have encountered in the text