Reflection Analysis

During the course of this semester, I have grown both as a person and as a writer. As I have matured into a young college student, my writing has also matured to reflect that. The writing that I did in high school would not cut it in college, but it has prepared me to tackle all the writing that I am about to accomplish. As the semester draws to a close, I look back on what I learned and how I improved my writing. A wide range of topics I cover in this paper that I have learned and improved on include the rhetoric triangle, grammar, voice, sentence structure, and attention to detail. In English class, I learned about the rhetoric triangle. The rhetoric triangle is ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is the appeal to credibility or image. Pathos is the appeal to the emotions. Lastly, logos is the appeal to logic or reason. Using the triangle, I

While I used others’ work in this class, I am also putting in my voice by analyzing why the writers wrote the subject matter they did. This is hard for me sometimes. How am I supposed to analyze a quote and find the deeper meaning if I do not know myself? The quote sounds good with what I wrote before it, but having to analyze it after is difficult sometimes. An instance of this is my narrative technique analysis, where I had to show instances where Bryan Stevenson used pathos. “‘Trina’s age, mental illness, poverty, the abuse she had suffered, or the tragic circumstances surrounding the fire’ (150). This is unfair since Trina was not mentally aware of what she was doing. Instead of being imprisoned Trina should have been sent to a mental hospital to get the help she needed.” This was the first time in this class I had to analyze someone else’s work. It is easier to analyze the hidden meaning of an author’s work if that author is myself. Though practice does make perfect and during the course of the semester and many revisions, I have gotten better at analyzing another author’s