Writing has always been my weakest subject, even during grade school. I was the kid that never liked to read, I didn’t have any appreciation for the art of writing. Whenever I had a writing assignment, I would do the minimum requirements for it so that I would be able to barely pass the class. However, as I transitioned into college, my appreciation for literature and writing expanded. In my freshmen year of college, I took the class Writing 37. It broadened my knowledge of writing as well as my knowledge of rhetoric. One year later, I took this class and in the first day of class, Professor Sung explained the use of rhetoric. Although I was exposed to the idea of rhetoric since high school, it never caught my eyes. I didn’t know that rhetoric
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As Professor Sung repeatedly told everyone, I made sure that I wrote with the readers in mind. I read over the sentences over and over as I wrote to make sure that it was flowing well and that it was not repetitive and boring to the readers. I remember during one of the class, we talked about the five parts of rhetoric, invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Ever since then, I tried to improve on my style and arrangement of writing. When reading The New Jim Crows by Michelle Alexander, I analyzed her style of writing and her arrangement of paragraphs so that I can replicate what she does to effectively address her argument. From her style of writing, I learned that using statistics and giving a real life example of the problem made her argument stronger. My first attempt of this was not what I expected. The HCP essay lacked the clarity of my argument. As Professor Sung commented, the first draft of my HCP didn’t show a clear problematic connection between my topic, the racial disparity with race and drugs. It didn’t clearly state who was persuading whom of what and how. However, I believe that the way I structured the paragraphs was a good way of using forensic rhetoric. I gave a background story to allow the audience to have an emotional connection to the problem. Another thing that I discovered through the HCP is that I lack in the researching
As Professor Sung repeatedly told everyone, I made sure that I wrote with the readers in mind. I read over the sentences over and over as I wrote to make sure that it was flowing well and that it was not repetitive and boring to the readers. I remember during one of the class, we talked about the five parts of rhetoric, invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Ever since then, I tried to improve on my style and arrangement of writing. When reading The New Jim Crows by Michelle Alexander, I analyzed her style of writing and her arrangement of paragraphs so that I can replicate what she does to effectively address her argument. From her style of writing, I learned that using statistics and giving a real life example of the problem made her argument stronger. My first attempt of this was not what I expected. The HCP essay lacked the clarity of my argument. As Professor Sung commented, the first draft of my HCP didn’t show a clear problematic connection between my topic, the racial disparity with race and drugs. It didn’t clearly state who was persuading whom of what and how. However, I believe that the way I structured the paragraphs was a good way of using forensic rhetoric. I gave a background story to allow the audience to have an emotional connection to the problem. Another thing that I discovered through the HCP is that I lack in the researching