Racial Profiling in the Criminal Justice System

Read Schmidt’s “Rhetoric” before you begin work on the Project
The Project is similar to the Annotated Bibliography in that you will be analyzing your sources further. It is different from the Annotated Bibliography because you will not be focusing on content or what the authors wrote; you will be focusing on rhetoric and how the authors wrote.
You will be using the same sources used in the Annotated Bibliography:

Racial Profiling in the Criminal Justice System
Ryberg, Jesper. “Racial Profiling and Criminal Justice,” Journal of Ethics, 2011. Vol. 15, pp.79-88.

Risse, Mathias, and Zeckhauser, Richard. Racial profiling. Philosophy & Public Affairs 32(2): 131–170

Welch, Kelly. “Black Criminal Stereotypes and Racial Profiling,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 2007. Vol. 23(3), p.276-290.

Civilrights.org. “The Reality of Racial Profiling,” The Leadership Conference: The Nations
Premier Civil & Human Rights Coalition. 2011. Web. September 28, 2014.

Carbado Devon, W., Harris, Cheryl, I., & Crenshaw Kimberle, W. “Racial Profiling Lives on,” The New York Times. August 14, 2013. Web. October 15, 2014.

Golgowski, Nina. “Florida Police Accused of Racial Profiling after Stopping Man 258 Times, Charging him with Trespassing at Work,” New York Daily News. November 22, 2013. Web. October 15, 2014.

Rhetorical Analysis

Now that you have researched and prepared an Annotated Bibliography of 6 sources, I want you to move beyond the content and focus on the rhetoric. Instead of looking at what was written, you will investigate how it was written.

You will summarize and analyze the rhetorical choices made by the authors of your 5 sources. Using the information provided in the Handbook and in Schmidt’s “Rhetoric,” you will need to explain and evaluate how the representative articles communicate.

In your rhetorical analysis, you will need to address the following components:

Audience & Persona:
Who is the intended audience for the article? What assumptions do the authors make about the audience? In what ways does the audience affect the purpose, persona, development, and organization of the text? Is there specialized language being used? What is the tone? Why did the authors choose their specific tone/persona?

Purpose & Argument:
What is the main argument presented by the authors? How is this thesis offered? Is it explicit or implied? Is it argumentative, descriptive, explanatory?

Organization/Format:
What is the genre of the source? How is the article organized? Are the authors following a specific format? In what order is the information presented? Is the article broken up into sections? What sections do the authors include? How is the article introduced and concluded?

Evidence:
What types of evidence do the authors use (primary sources, secondary sources, surveys, interviews, case studies, charts, graphs, etc.)? Why are these types of evidence being used? How is this evidence used (as background information, to support, as an opposing view, etc)? How do the authors incorporate their sources?

Each component must be discussed in a fully developed, single-spaced paragraph with specific examples to support your observations. In addition to describing the choices made by the authors, you will also discuss why you think that the authors made the choices they did. Remember that this assignment is asking you to discuss the “How” and “Why,” not the “What.”

Each article should be discussed separately and you will need to provide headings for the components. Do not worry about overlap; because all of these components are interconnected, you may end up referring to audience in the evidence section or purpose in the organization section.

(Topic) Rhetorical Analysis

Bibliographic entry (cut and paste from Annotated Bib)

Audience & Persona:

Purpose & Argument:

Organization/Format:

Evidence: