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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Steve Jobs Commencement Speech

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This is a Rhetorical Analysis on Steve Jobs commencement speech "You've got to find what you love." The purpose of writing this paper was to learn how to actually analyze and write a rhetorical analysis. My class worked on the first 3 paragraphs together to understand what needed to be included in each paragraph then we were set free to finish the paper based on what we had learned.

From writing this analysis, I learned what to include in a rhetorical analysis and how to pull certain things from the text that will help you write it. I also learned how to actually analyze the paper and not just summarize what I read. Lastly, I learned new rhetorical stratergies to use in future papers.

Since this paper was written with the help of my teacher,

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