Assess students' ability to apply discourse analysis to short persuasive editorials or excerpts: identify and label cohesive devices (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical cohesion), map rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos, framing, stance, narrative), explain how these elements structure the argument and produce persuasive effects, and justify interpretations with concise textual evidence; includes labeling tasks and short analytical responses.