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How has Opak deployed the rhetoric mode of process analysis in his book?

According to Longman writers on page 307 they defined the rhetoric mode of process analysis as
a technique that explains the steps or sequence involved in doing something satisfying our need
to learn as well as our curiosity about how the world works.

Source Opak deployed the two kind of process analysis that is directional and informational in
his work which are both appropriate in problem solving situations and firstly our problem being
ascertaining whether the Iteso knew God before the arrival of Christian missionaries and
establishing the correct name of God the creator among the Iteso before and after the early
Christian missionaries which was a technique to keep the audience focused on theme of the
book.

He further used it by structuring his work/writing by using chapters and breaking them down for
example under chapter two the sub section of the methodology where he explains the approach
to the research where he implored the two methods of qualitative and oral narratives from the
old men with extraordinary memory which enabled us understand his writing and how managed
to gather facts.

He also deployed it by explaining how the techniques would be used since it was a new field that
rarely writers have explored and required specific techniques like having in depth interviews
with key informants ,listening to oral history, visits and observations of the sites .(Source Opak
page 7)

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