When I first came to this class I felt very hesitant as a writer my pencil unsteady in my hand. I had no idea where to start but through the beginning I just did it. I learned throughout the course that if you are having difficulty in where or how to start a paper then sit down write out the rhetorical analysis it will help you to understand the conventions of writing in the subject. Do writing prompts and brainstorming. Write a horrible first draft. Just start writing and keep doing it eventually you will come across something that will turn the light bulb on.
To read and write rhetorically means to write for the situation. To carefully evaluate the who, what, when, where, and how for writing the paper. Knowing …show more content…
Drawing on Pathos I used an emotional experience to catch the attention of readers to inform them about Autism when I wrote for my Yes! Magazine article. Using the line “Imagine how intimidating the world would be if you could not understand the social cues that most everyone else does. It would terrify me to not be able to interact with or understand people around me This is Autism.” By making them empathize with the autistic community I was persuading them to continue reading and to help in any way they could. Later in the same paper I used research and verified facts such as “According to autismspeaks.org 1 in 68 children are Autistic, yet it is still one of the most underfunded and unsupported disorders.” to show the logic of my argument. I established my credibility or my Ethos with my personal experience with an autistic individual by writing “I have the pleasure of knowing and being close to one of these delightfully different personalities.”
I used my understanding of rhetorical analysis to discover the conventions of high school lesson plans in my Genre Analysis. I discovered and explored conventions of high school lesson plans such as language/style “Formal language and a serious tone is used for a lesson plan to convey that you are going to be professional and that you have put a lot of thought and effort into your work.” The convention of organization “Lesson plans are organized to make it easy to understand and