Time Flies When You're Having Fun

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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.

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