The Blugold Seminar has many parts to it, and many program outcomes that are there to help improve my writing skills. There where three specific program outcomes that I felt I had learned and improved on. They are understanding and applying a variety of key rhetorical terms, such as rhetorical situation, exigence, rhetor, audience, purpose, constraints, kairos, identification, situated ethos, invented ethos, pathos, logos, and visual rhetoric within my writing, demonstrating information literacy skills by finding and evaluating a variety of source materials, and demonstrating critical reading skills by summarizing, paraphrasing, analyzing, and synthesizing information from a variety of source materials in my writing. There where also two learning outcomes that I felt I could improve on. They where understanding the extent and nature of sources needed to meet rhetorical goals within a specific writing situation and understanding that images, sounds, animations—in addition to words—are all integral parts of effective communication. Although I did struggle with a few of these program outcomes they all have helped me grow and become a better writer.
First I learned about understanding and applying a variety of key rhetorical terms, such as rhetorical situation, exigence, rhetor, audience, purpose, constraints, kairos, identification, situated ethos, invented ethos, pathos, logos, and visual rhetoric within my writing. Before the Blugold Seminar I had never learned most of these terms, nor how to apply them to writing. In my most recent piece of writing for this class, the magazine article shows off how I have really expanded my knowledge of these terms and was able to use them correctly. My magazine was for parents regarding their te...
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... of Americas health care. I had to use my summary to help communicate the view that the radio show was trying to get across. When I stated, “The harsh reality of this Trends With Benefits radio program is that 14 million jobless Americans are accepting to live in poverty, with an income of only $13,000. Joffe-Walt ends knowing that as a result of these Americans being on disability, many will end up being poor for the rest of their lives.” I did get slightly off topic and did not successfully communicate the point.
The Blugold Seminar helped me learn a great deal about my writing. I was able to learn new skills and understand what to do to achieve and perfect new ones. The program outcomes where mostly met by myself, with only two not being totally perfected. I will try to perfect the few outcomes that I did not fully understand and work to keep my skills growing.
Heinrichs had previously worked as a journalist before becoming a full time writer and advocate for rhetoric. He utilizes illustrative examples to convey rhetorical concepts. Furthermore, chapter four reveals the most valuable logos and pathos tactic. Lastly, this book’s use should be continued in this course.
Longaker, Mark Garrett, and Jeffrey Walker. Rhetorical Analysis: A Brief Guide for Writers. Glenview: Longman, 2011. Print.
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...
“This Course prepares students for reading, research, and writing in college classes by teaching students to consider the rhetorical situation of any piece of writing while integrating reading, research, and writing in the academic genres of analysis and argument. This course is said to teach students to develop analyses and arguments using research-based content with effective organization, and appropriate expression and mechanics”. (1)
Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, she discusses the nature of rhetorical analysis, how it affects our everyday lives and explains the role context plays. Aristotle’s mode of persuasion: Logos, Pathos and Ethos are all components often used to persuade an audience. Logos appeal to logic or stating the facts, Pathos taps into your emotions and Ethos demonstrates the presenter’s credibility. Determining which appeal was used will assist you in having a clear understanding if you should buy into the idea, product etc. Every day we perform some type of analysis, whether we are aware of this or not.
McNeil, Hayden. The Anteater's Guide to Writing & Rhetoric. Irvine: Composition Program, Department of English, UC Irvine, 2014. Print.
This program helps me be more self confident, and I felt better communicating with others. It also made me think about going to college, I got this from the Guest Readers who went to talk with us. They all told us that we needed College in all the good jobs, and we didn't have to start from the bottom if we had a college degree. They also told us that the community service that we were doing was going to look great on our records. For almost every job you also need a good speaking ability and we have a good practice with little kids. If the kids see you not really interested in the book they would do another thing and ignore you. So for every book you have used another voice and use your body because body language is very important.
Rhetoric is something that we use constantly in our everyday life. Unbeknown to us, we have been using the persuasive appeals of pathos, ethos and logos even for the most mundane things. Rhetoric can be seen everywhere in our everyday’s lives in form of media, religion, politics, government propaganda, historic references and social media. We should learn to identify and appropriately use the different categories of rhetoric expressions in an effective manner. Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing in order to convince the audience or the reader. It is sued to convince the audience to think in the same way as the arguer or the presenter.
Rhetoric is the art of using language to persuade an audience. Writers and speakers often use rhetoric appeals. Aristotelian Rhetoric appeals are used in arguments to support claims and counter opposing arguments. Rhetoric used four different approaches to capture its audience’s attention: pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos bases its appeal on provoking strong emotion from an audience. Ethos builds its appeal based on good moral character of the writer or speaker and relies on good sense and good will to influence its audience. Logos persuades its audience through the use of deductive and inductive reasoning. The kiaros approach requires a combination of creating and recognizing the right time and right place for making the argument in the first place. All of these appeals are important tools, and can be used together or apart to persuade an audience.
After teaching high school English reading and writing for four years, life led me to apply for a position teaching English at a state university. I was hired as an adjunct faculty member, but in my eyes, I was basically a utility man in the Major Leagues. The brief hour-long meeting with the adjunct coordinator was my first exposure to rhetoric and anything related to it. I knew what a rhetorical question was—don’t we all?—and I had heard people make comments such as “He might think he knows what he’s doing, but in all reality, his talk is all rhetoric.” Still, did I know how to teach this stuff to other people? On the college level? I sat down with the information the coordinator had given me and I found many helpful hints, ideas, and terms. I love terms. If I am given a list of terms, I can often use the definitions to find the common links and make the material teachable. I did an online search and found a Web site that broke down the various elements of rhetoric and included a list of terms. I was in heaven, rhetorically speaking.
to Writing. The Basics. Visual Rhetoric. Readings. Ed. Dore Ripley. Pleasant Hill: DVC, 2013 83-89.
The author’s main argument in “Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making” is that rhetoric does not need to be complicated if writers incorporate certain elements to their writing. Downs further analyzed the elements that contribute to rhetoric such as symbols and signals, motivation, emotion, ecology, reasoning and identification. The author emphasized that writers can learn how to deliver their writing effectively once they are more aware on how rhetoric works. Downs constantly assures that rhetoric is quite simple and does not need to provoke fuzziness. Even though the term rhetorical is applied to everything, the author of the article made it clear that the “rhetorical” thing is situated. The example provided by the author in this article, further guides our understanding on what rhetoric
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 his essay entitled “The Rhetorical Stance,” Wayne Booth describes how rhetorical stance is imperative for good writing. I agree with Booth that by using rhetoric stance in our writing we can produce and powerful and well-written argument. How then do we know if we are using the art of rhetoric in our writing? According to Booth, “Rhetoric is the art of finding and employing the most effective means of persuasion on any subject, considered independently of intellectual mastery of that subject" (199). In making this comment Booth urges us to be knowledgeable on the subject we are writing about and use passion and emotional appeals to strengthen our argument. Booth gives his readers a good explanation of what the word means and how it is portrayed in essays.
Harris, Robert A. Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Pub., 2003. Print.