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Main idea/Thesis statement

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Movie reviews, by using conventions and

common rhetorical strategies such as
background introduction, balanced vice and
virtue analysis, and a fine line between
spoilers and plot analysis, enhance
audience's
movie-watching
experience
beforehand and afterwards.

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A movie review is a unique kind of writing It simply introduces

because of its audience, exigence, and what a movie review
discourse.
is and what rhetorical
features it has.
In Reelviews, the author James Berardinelli, It is the first movie
in his review of "Star Wars: The Force review example that
Awakens", introduces background and supports my thesis.
provides balanced analysis to help audience
better understand the movie
In Rolling Stone, the author Peter Travers It is the second
reviews the movie "Ride Along 2" by movie
review
applying movie review conventions to example
that
provide
audience
with
the
best supports my thesis.
understandings and experiences.
CJ Johnson reviews The Hateful Eight on It is the third movie
ABC emotionally but responsibly, keeping review example that
himself closer to audience.
supports my thesis.
Putting three movie reviews together, I find This
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that they have surface-level rhetorical concludes rhetorical
features in common, which make them features
in
three
belong to the same genre and serve the same movie reviews I have
function.
analyzed
as
to
reinforce my thesis.
Secondly, three reviews share many This
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conventions and common techniques in their concludes
analysis.
conventions in three
movie reviews I have
analyzed
as
to
reinforce my thesis.
However, some differences that I observed This
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also make each movie review special.
seems not related to
my thesis, but it
makes my paper well
rounded.
Learning genre is definitely helpful for us to This
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understand the world around us, because it examines the benefit
not only helps us to categorize subjects in of learning genre. It
order, but also gives us clues of how things seems not related to

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How/Why
supports
argument

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my thesis, but it
provides
further
understanding
of
genre
through
analysis of movie
reviews.