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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), specifically as Thomas Huckin outlines the approach in his essay
“Critical Discourse Analysis.” As Huckin explains, CDA provides students with a useful methodology that
moves them beyond merely pointing out logical fallacies and warrants to recognizing the strategies
individuals employ, sometimes unconsciously, to hide their biases. These strategies include
omitting facts
relying upon insinuation, presupposition, and connotations to sway people to your side
Students can analyze any number of “artifacts” using CDA: advertisements, television programs, films,
Source:
Huckin, Thomas, Jennifer Andrusz, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon. “Critical Discourse Analysis and
Rhetoric and Composition.” College Composition and Communication 64.1 (2012): 107-29. Print.