User-Friendly Rhetorical Analysis

Writing the thesis and the body paragraphs

Thesis:

• Occasion• Author(s)• Two purposes

• In response to the President Bush’s push for more math and science in schools, former supreme court justice Sandra Day O’Connor and superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District Roy Romer assert that an emphasis also needs to be placed on civics classes in school, declaring that we must stop ignoring our own country’s democratic ideals while focusing on others.

Examples of Thesis Statements• In response to Phyllis Wright's question as to whether or not scientists pray

and what they pray for, Albert Einstein states even though most natural laws and our knowledge of them have been justified through scientific research that his work as a scientist has only confirmed and strengthened his belief that there is a superior being in the lives of all human beings.

• • In Albert Einstein's letter to Phyllis Wright, he explains his belief in a

supernatural being but his unfaithfulness in prayer due to the fact that all events are rooted in the laws of nature, rather than by a request to a supernatural being.

• • Although Einstein points out that scientists hardly believe prayers to cause

a change in events, he states that scientists do believe in the existence of a supernatural spirit superior to that of man.