This is my second term of the first year of college, and everything went so much better than I thought. Last term I took WR 121, I had learned a lot of new skills from that class; now I am taking WR122 , and I am glad that I still able to apply those old skills in the class. In WR122, I have a chance to experience different types of writing as well as the concepts. Rhetorical essay was the first project I did in this class. I am really satisfy with the final paper.
Even Though it is not the best, but I can see how’s my writing being improved. I use more new vocabulary, and being careful when correct the grammar. Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are not new tools for me since I learned them from high school. Despite the fact that I have learned those tools, I still need to refresh my mind by the journal, and the journal help me to remember the tools again. I examined the “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the poor” authored by Garrett Hardin, looked for the tools being used in the article. It was not too difficult, and I believed I found most of it. After the first paper, I gained some more confidence for my writing and for myself.
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In my old class, when I wrote a debate essay, I usually stay on one side to support and discuss. Conversely, I have to argue on both sides for this paper, and can’t be biased for one or the other. My topic was “Should the government legalized marijuana in medical treatment?”, this topic sounds interested to me after I read “The great pot experiment” from PCC library website. I used 3 sources for each side that I argued for. One of them from the PCC library, the rest I found online after did some research for the “credibility” of the article. This is hard because it can’t sound like the source, and if the paper only base on the sources, 85% it will sound like the source. So to keep the writing in neutral requires a lot of thinkings and
The impact and effectiveness of using proper rhetoric was a strategy of “good” writing that I was not aware of until my senior year of high school. While taking AP Language and Composition my junior year, my fellow students and I believed that we had survived countless essay workshop activities and writing assignments with emphasis on word choices, grammatical structure, syntax, punctuation and spelling. By the time we had entered AP Literature our senior year, we felt we could achieve success; we already knew how to write in the correct format and structur...
he evaluation of the overall rhetorical effectiveness for intended audience was a failure starting with the ethos of having no much credibility for the author, pathos, no real connection to emotion to aid the doctor, and not being able to see the real problem, and with the lack of logos to explain how to be able to obtain aid and help the student improve. As a result, in the editorial the authors had no success in persuading all the audience. For that reason, college students should be able to see the correct way to write their essay and the effective method for them to pass class with excellent essays.
Thinking back to the mind set I held when writing the paper, it is hard to recreate the idea and emotions I was feeling. Though a rhetorical analysis is the closest thing that I can do to recreate the writing conditions I was under those couple of years ago. The idea of rhetoric has changed since the first day of this class, I feel that it can truly help the idea that my writing, no matter when it
Rhetorical study is the art of describing reality through language. The study of rhetoric becomes an effort to understand how humans, in various capacities and in a variety of situations, can describe reality through language. The importance of rhetoric study is that, it is a good writing tool to have in academic study that can be used to persuade others. Using rhetoric has an impact on writing for composing essays. In the use of rhetoric writers and speakers should know how to use the three modes of appeal, and know the importance of certain issues when using rhetoric in their essays or speeches. Rhetoric is commonly used when arguing rhetorical topics to persuade or to inform others about certain issues.
McNeil, Hayden. The Anteater's Guide to Writing & Rhetoric. Irvine: Composition Program, Department of English, UC Irvine, 2014. Print.
To begin this paper and connect it with my previous writing, I thought it appropriate to define rhetoric. Not from any readings or my own opinion, but from a different source. “A language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable” (Merriam-Webster 's Learner 's Dictionary). Per this definition, rhetoric is any information that is shared and meant to affect the reader or audience’s way of thinking. As mentioned in my second paper, the most significant rhetorical piece that I have written was a recent scholarship essay. This article was a part of an application process from which I was to earn funding for my college education. The topic of that essay was to describe the character, reason, and importance of
In my essay I used five different rhetorical modes including Narration, Description, Exemplification, Analysis, and Cause and Effect. I also used a few different schemes and tropes that include apposition, polysyndeton, anaphora, and litotes.
What do I need to improve and how will I action these improvements? The first point of order will be to determine which of the contrasting pieces of advice obtained, have significant value. This consideration is pertinent due to the majority of feedback having come from the University provided links, and the conflicting analysis’ they concluded. Upon reading the fine print available for each program, where it is inferred if not outright stated, that due to a lack in understanding pragmatics and syntax, these algorithm based applications are fallible and the results are purely suggestions.
In the reflections, we had to choose two rhetorical terms and discuss how we used the terms in our writing pieces. I learned the meaning application of the terms such as exigence, audience, stance, purpose and genre. In my reflections I mostly used audience and purpose because they were well suited for context of my papers. However, I also used exigence in my literacy narrative reflection because my background and academic experience promoted to me write about the struggles of the immigrant students. Similarly, I learned rhetorical strategies such ethos, logos and pathos and their usages in academic writing. In the final research paper, I tried to make use of the three strategies to make my paper more appealing to the readers. We did exercise in class in which we had to choose a rhetorical strategies that we think we are weak in and write a paragraph using the rhetorical strategy. I wrote about logos and found the exercise extremely useful in implementing the skills into the
Throughout the writing process of an essay, a writer encounters a wide diversity of challenges and things that are easy. Writing a rhetorical essay is the same way. Every writer is different. Some have the ability to elaborate on simple ideas to give their papers more detail and thoroughly explain the idea. Other writers can find this as a challenge, which can cause their papers to not reach the minimum requirement needed for the prompt. While writing my rhetorical essay I experienced various challenges and learned a lot.
I wanted to include this piece as it is the first non-rhetorical analysis timed writing that I have written. This means that this was the first essay that I had to write in AP English without consulting any outside source (such as a poem or letter for which I would have to analyze rhetorical strategies), so my arguments were entirely based on my knowledge. This DCQ allowed me to display my raw argumentative skills. I included this essay also to look on my style of writing in the beginning of the year. I seemed to use passive voice in many of my sentences. Also, my diction appears underdeveloped in this essay, as I used “common” words (such as messed up, many, most) in place of more “educated” words. My transitions seemed sort of choppy as well. Overall, this piece was most representative of my writing ability at the beginning of the year.
College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 12th ed. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Boston: Bedford, 2012. 625-27. Print.
With the help of online guidance as well as models of the rhetorical essay, delightedly, I eventually mastered those strategies to analyze the article deeply. Consequently, the essay was perfectly done. An indescribable fulfillment comforted all of what I had complained about before.
As the researcher for the visual argument project, it was necessary to find information not only for the visual but the paper as well. At the beginning of the class, I would use Google as the search engine and found news articles as my sources. I made sure the quotes used in papers were specifically from the candidates’ websites when discussing their ideas and points of views. For example, in my report entitled “The Mental Wall Against Trump- What Americans Don’t Realize is Best for America” I found appropriate sources that explicitly stated Donald Trump’s reasoning for a particular plan, “A nation that does not serve its citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.” (2). Throughout the visual project, I used many library databases provided by Alabama’s library. These sources established many new ideas and ways of researching appropriate sources for
In summary, I had an enjoyable time in my first college English class. I pushed myself as diligently as I could and learned much more than I thought I would. In addition to, my strengths grew stronger and my weaknesses improved as well. I acknowledge I still have some techniques and skills to work on; however, I am willing to put the time in and cannot wait to take English in the future. Writing is an everlasting skill that will be an enormous asset to me; in addition to my future classes, and my career as