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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Debate essay was the difficult one.
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
reasoning. The last paper was the proposal essay. I feel okay with it, and I think this is my 2nd good paper. This type of essay is new for me, propose an idea and convince the audience about that idea whether it is good or bad. My topic was “Farm industry should reduce the use of antibiotics in raising animals.” It is a terrific topic due to the long term used and how it can lead to superbug, I proposed some idea to make the situation better and hopefully it will e on-target.
Palmer, William. "Rhetorical Analysis." Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, Writing, and Style. Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2012. 268-69. 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...
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
Student's Book of College English: Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide and Handbook. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2012. 402-405.
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.
College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 12th ed. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Boston: Bedford, 2012. 625-27. Print.
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
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.
This semester was my very first semester as a college student. Being the first, it was probably the semester I would learn the most in. I learned the expectations for writing that I will have to live up to for the next four years of my college career. Though my high school teachers were usually demanding because I was in the Honors English section throughout high school, writing in college has still ?raised the bar? for me. Also, in high school, we would have weeks to pick a topic, create a thesis, outline the paper, write the paper, and then revise the paper. In college, the time restraints are not quite as lenient. I?ve had to learn to manage my time and be more productive with what free moments I have. Strangely enough, I?ve found the college English experience to be much more rewarding and enjoyable than in high school.
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
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.