Overall, I think the paper is very well written and is a pretty good narrative but if I was simply given the paper I probably wouldn’t label it as being rhetorical analysis. Of course there are definitely pieces throughout that seem more like rhetorical analysis than others. For example, even when Kyle is describing the physical appearance of the two players and uses the chart it seems as if this is developing credibility for Billie Jean King (ethos) while kind of tearing down Riggs. Moreover, Kyle develops ethos throughout the paper by citing credible sources and having many statistics, facts, and quotes, yet it was hard for me to decipher what he is proving if he’s trying to prove something. I initially thought his thesis was “I propose to view the match as an argument ostensibly about gender which held deeper implications for how the interrelationship of gender, class, and economics could play out in the cultural realm of sports” but the essay was too long and scatterbrained for me to see this fully developed. I still think, however, the essay was well written and well researched throughout but perhaps the reflection/commentary on the research could’ve been more oriented towards one purpose for the paper to be technically considering rhetorical analysis.
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