Dr122 Reflection

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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. …show more content…

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

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