Four Sentence Rhetorical Precis Template
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1Four Sentence Rhetorical Précis Template
1. _________________________________, ___________________________________
in his/her
_______________________________, ________________________________________________,
(author’s credentials)
(author’s first and last name)
__________________________________
(genre: article, essay, short story, editorial, sermon, etc.)
(title of text appropriately punctuated underlined or in quotation marks)
argues (or suggests, implies, claims, notes) that
(major assertion/thesis statement of author’s text)
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________.
2.
_____________________________
He/she supports (or develops) his/her claim by first
___________________________________________________________________________________
(comparing, narrating, illustrating, defining, etc.)
________________________
____________________________________________________
, then
___________________________________________________________________________________
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then
_____________________________________________________
_________________
, and finally
__________________________________________________________________________________
.
3. ____________________________
_______________________________________
’s purpose is to
(author’s last name)
(persuade, criticize, explain, entertain, inform, describe …
_______________________________________________________________________
in order to
(…prove, convince, bring about change, recommend, warn, etc.)
___________________________________________________________________________________
(to accomplish what? )
4.
__________________________
___________________________________
He/she
a(n)
tone for
(verb: adopts, establishes, creates, etc.)
(informative, infuriated, thoughtful, hopeful, serious, sarcastic, etc.)
__________________________________________________________________________________
.
(intended audience)
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