Rhetorical Analysis Of Becoming A Professional Athlete

Growing up, I was told my dreams are unrealistic. I would tell my parents that I want to be a Major League Baseball player when I grow up, but they merely laugh and tell me, “good luck with that”. I was told I have to be a good catholic. I would sit through hours upon hours of religious education to officially become a “member” of church that is built upon the values of accepting everyone and anyone into one of it’s masses. I was pressured to get good grades, so I could get into a good college, and get a “real” job. But what if a high school student isn’t interested in going to college to become a businessman, lawyer or engineer? Maybe he would rather get his hand dirty, fixing the car that the man who spent $200,000 on a college education …show more content…
Whether it is going to the cape for a long summer weekend, grabbing a donut at Dunks before going to class, catching a Sox game under the lights at Fenway, or cheering for the Pats on a brisk autumn evening, these are the days I live for. Like many Bostonians, I am an obsessive Boston sports fan, so when I got the option to write a rhetorical analysis about any article I wanted, I had to write about Deflategate. Deflategate is the cheating scandal surrounding the New England Patriots and their Quarterback, Tom Brady. The article I chose to review was one that provided a very intriguing opinion on the whole Deflategate situation, one contrary to the popular belief that Deflategate has been a failure for the league. Being the avid Patriots fan I am, it was very difficult to eradicate my emotions and biases from this article. However, in doing so, I learned how to write an effective rhetorical analysis. One of the most important parts about writing a rhetorical analysis was to make sure that you do not merely review the article, rather you had to dig deep and find out how the article was intended to sound towards the reader. In doing this, I was able to back my findings with evidence from the article itself, and external sources. Most importantly, I enjoyed writing this piece as it allowed me to do an in-depth analysis on an article about the …show more content…
However, there is a difference between being smart and being educated that sometimes gets neglected. To me, being smart is to have a large amount a knowledge in a variety of different subjects, and to be educated is to know the basics of each discipline: mathematics, English, sciences, and history. This allows one to be able to function as a member of society. Because of my value for education, I take pride in the work that I do to further my general education. With this comes the process of learning from my mistakes in order to perfect my writing skills. In first year writing, in order to learn from our mistakes, we conducted revision exercises throughout the year that would help us perfect our essays. This included writing peer reviews for others, receiving peer review, and work shopping essays during class. Through these strategies, I was able to learn more about writing, whether it is the structure of rhetorical analysis paper, or how to craft topic sentences that better fit thesis. These are the small writing skills that I think are important for everyone have in order to be a functioning member of the society we live in today, and it is because of my passion for learning these skills that I choose to use the pieces to better myself as a writer.

Peer Review 1:
In this peer review, I wrote to Doris explaining the things I liked and though she could fix with her Unit 1 paper. One of the main reasons