1.) My takeaway from reading Carrols article and writing my own rhetorical analysis is that Rhetoric is the tactics someone uses to convey their position. If someone chooses to make someone feel bad for a person in their writing they’re trying to appeal to someones emotion.
2.) Rhetoric relates to critical thinking/reading because you need to think critically in order to understand a writers rhetoric. if you don’t think critically you will only get the massage that the author was trying to convey, but you won’t be able to see why and how they conveyed it.
sam 