Cheering Free Speech” by Jeffrey Mateer and Erin Leu

This week for your journal entry, you will put your rhetorical analysis skills to use analyzing a written argument. After you’ve read Ch. 3 in your textbook, return to pages 90-96 and choose one of the following articles to respond to, either:

“Cheering Free Speech” by Jeffrey Mateer and Erin Leu

or

“How Can We Ban Insults Against Jews But Not Muslims? By William Saletan.

In at least 250 words, please analyze the essay’s argument, making sure to answering the following questions (select the button “Create Journal Entry”):

What situation or event led to the author writing his or her article?
What is the author’s claim? Be as precise as possible.
Which is more persuasive to you: the author’s introduction or conclusion? Why?
Please keep a copy of your response on your own computer (a quick copy/paste into a Word document) before you submit it here. If Blackboard Learn fails (and it happens), you will still have a back-up.