For my second essay in Writing and Rhetoric, I was tasked with choosing writing a rhetorical analysis.  I was given four pieces of literature to choose from; I picked Malcolm X’s, “Learning to Read.”  This was not the full book, but merely a short excerpt from the book, “Writing About Writing A College Reader” (3rd ed.).  The purpose of this essay was to find X’s argument and exploit his use of rhetorical devices that helped him convey his argument.