WRD 104: Composition & Rhetoric II Rotating Header Image

Another good example of a contextual-analysis essay

Framed around inquiry — or possibly, rhetorical — questions:
Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Big Changes in Black America?

Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
Note how the writer weaves sources and examples throughout: quoting, delivering statistics, wrestling with contradictions, integrating a range of voices, all in the service of a single line of inquiry.