Rhetorical Analysis

Throughout the semester, we were assigned five essays. Beginning with paper one, a summary response, we were expected to provide our audience with a brief summary followed by our response to it. I began my paper with a question as the hook, and then I provided the author’s claim. Afterwards, I gave a sentence worth of information about what the article is about and then presented my thesis. My brainstorming process was minimal. Honestly, I did not tackle much on following the writing process. I read the article and began to write accordingly to the assignment sheet. My grade on the essay obviously reflected on that due to no proofreading or revising. There were errors amongst my format, such as, heading and font. As far as feedback, Armstrong

This essay required critical thinking; our goal was to determine the author’s primary and secondary argumentative claim and to show how she was making her argument effective. I used imagery as my hook because I wanted to do something different than what I did in any other essay I’ve completed in all of my school years. Considering that this essay was a rhetorical analysis, I sort of connected with the audience through my imagery by mentioning how hard it is to not use your cell phone while in class. I followed the writing process by annotating and highlighting important points of the article and wrote down ideas that could be used on my essay. This actually made me more knowledgeable of what needed to be done because it allowed me to understand what the essay was talking about and gave me easier access with discovering key points to use for the three appeals, logos, ethos, and pathos. I felt very confident while writing the essay, and I knew that I’d make a passing grade. My incorporation for feedback was a lot better than it was on paper one. Armstrong informed that my body paragraphs were entirely too long and that I should work on concisely identifying three examples of each kind of appeal, as well as, understanding that when the paper is read, it shouldn’t read like a paraphrasing, but more so as an analysis. This essay has assisted me with an understanding of how a rhetorical analysis should be