When we were assigned to write a rhetorical analysis, the purpose was to analyze without our emotions. Being the over-achiever I am, I chose the article that I would find the most difficulty remaining objective over – “What’s the Matter with Creationism?” by Katha Pollitt. I did not agree with her stance and the way she explained her argument made me angry. I knew that I could let my emotions override my logic while analyzing her essay, but I did not let that happen. I chose that article because I felt it was just as important to hold my emotions away from my writing as it was to let them flow from every …show more content…
I learned about my cultural eye and how it applies to my major in sociology. I got to explore different genres from personal to rhetorical analysis to research in argumentative essays. I cannot begin to explain everything else I have learned in this class. The biggest take away I got was finding out how my writing pertains to me. It does not matter what genre I am writing in; it does not matter whether my writing is dripping with emotion or my writing has emotion set aside. My writing is a part of who I am and to anyone who reads it, it is who I am. Deanna Allred helped me learn who that person on the page was, and for that, I will always be grateful she was the one who taught me English