Analysis is a crucial component of rhetoric as civic engagement.
Careful analysis of artifacts should precede and inform the action we take in society and then be an ongoing process throughout our engagement with that artifact. Both are forms of rhetorical analysis we have studied in class and serve as useful ways to pick apart an artifact in order to understand it better. Imagine as your audience readers of an academic journal that publishes rhetorical criticism. Take detailed notes about your work. Write down everything that you observe, especially events or conversations that seem anomalous or somehow significant.