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In this speech you will perform a rhetorical analysis of one article from the Conversations reader (please exclude fiction articles and the first four articles we will read together).  You will have specific presentation goals well as rhetorical goals.  The rhetorical goals will make up the content of the speech, the presentation goals will help you formulate the speech and deliver it. After you select your article, you must examine it thoroughly.