My time spent in WRD 103 has been a journey full of opportunities that have helped me improve as a writer. I am so thankful that I was able to learn different styles of writing to help me gain experience in different types of writing that I have never been exposed to before. Overall, I was able to enhance and further develop my abilities as a writer by taking this class as a learning opportunity. One of my biggest challenges during this course was writing the rhetorical analysis essay. This was because I never wrote a rhetorical analysis before this class. Honestly, I do not think that I ever experienced such difficulty writing a paper in my life before this essay. Therefore, for my reflective essay, I chose to revise my rhetorical analysis
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As a result, I substantially revised my final draft by using rhetorical questions as a strategy instead and omitting examples. Another huge change that I made was analyzing specific quotes to help support my strategies. Initially, I just used “mine” and “our” to show how Hooten used first-person in his essay. In my revised draft, however, I included the entire quote when Hooten stated “Mine--perhaps, ours-- is the first American generation that has yet to experience a horror-story war” (394). This helped me clarify how Hooten used the first-person we rhetorical strategy in his essay better by analyzing a shorter and specific quote. After reading over my final draft, I recognized that I was being very general when analyzing the rhetorical strategies. Mark from the Writing Center also pointed out that I was not explaining how or why for a rhetorical strategy when I analyzed quotes from Hooten. I realized that many of my ideas were underdeveloped and very vague as well as repetitious. Afterwards, I made it a conscious effort in my revised draft to explain how the first-person we allowed Hooten to connect with his readers. For example, in my final draft, I stated that “Because Hooten begins his argument with “our,” he adds a personal element to his claim that collectively attracts and includes his readers as well.” Afterwards, I provided no explanation …show more content…
At the beginning of the quarter, I wrote an annotation journal for my first time. As a result, I was able to actively involve with articles by asking questions, writing definitions I did not know, and even argue against points. Another new genre that I explored this quarter was the personal narrative essay. At first, I really struggled with providing enough information for my reader to understand how much Arabic I knew during my trip to Jordan. However, after receiving constructive feedback from my professor, I was able to understand how to explain my narrative to someone who was not there with me. Finally, another new genre that I explored in this course writing a rhetorical analysis essay. Honestly, I worked the hardest and was challenged the most when writing my essay. However, after looking at the AP rhetorical analysis essays, specifically RRR and how the student structured their essay from their thesis, receiving feedback from my peers and the Writing Center, I was able to successfully write this essay.
Another goal that I achieved in this course was the ability to evaluate the work of others and identify rhetorical strategies. In Essay 3, I identified the multiple rhetorical strategies that were used in Jon Hooten’s essay titled “Fighting Words: The War Over Language.” In my essay, I analyzed three rhetorical strategies used in Hooten’s essay and focused on how Hooten used
As a result, I substantially revised my final draft by using rhetorical questions as a strategy instead and omitting examples. Another huge change that I made was analyzing specific quotes to help support my strategies. Initially, I just used “mine” and “our” to show how Hooten used first-person in his essay. In my revised draft, however, I included the entire quote when Hooten stated “Mine--perhaps, ours-- is the first American generation that has yet to experience a horror-story war” (394). This helped me clarify how Hooten used the first-person we rhetorical strategy in his essay better by analyzing a shorter and specific quote. After reading over my final draft, I recognized that I was being very general when analyzing the rhetorical strategies. Mark from the Writing Center also pointed out that I was not explaining how or why for a rhetorical strategy when I analyzed quotes from Hooten. I realized that many of my ideas were underdeveloped and very vague as well as repetitious. Afterwards, I made it a conscious effort in my revised draft to explain how the first-person we allowed Hooten to connect with his readers. For example, in my final draft, I stated that “Because Hooten begins his argument with “our,” he adds a personal element to his claim that collectively attracts and includes his readers as well.” Afterwards, I provided no explanation …show more content…
At the beginning of the quarter, I wrote an annotation journal for my first time. As a result, I was able to actively involve with articles by asking questions, writing definitions I did not know, and even argue against points. Another new genre that I explored this quarter was the personal narrative essay. At first, I really struggled with providing enough information for my reader to understand how much Arabic I knew during my trip to Jordan. However, after receiving constructive feedback from my professor, I was able to understand how to explain my narrative to someone who was not there with me. Finally, another new genre that I explored in this course writing a rhetorical analysis essay. Honestly, I worked the hardest and was challenged the most when writing my essay. However, after looking at the AP rhetorical analysis essays, specifically RRR and how the student structured their essay from their thesis, receiving feedback from my peers and the Writing Center, I was able to successfully write this essay.
Another goal that I achieved in this course was the ability to evaluate the work of others and identify rhetorical strategies. In Essay 3, I identified the multiple rhetorical strategies that were used in Jon Hooten’s essay titled “Fighting Words: The War Over Language.” In my essay, I analyzed three rhetorical strategies used in Hooten’s essay and focused on how Hooten used