Rhetoric is the first and foremost lesson all English 102 students must walk away with from this course with a full understanding of. Prior to this course I had a good understanding of rhetoric, but this course refreshed my memory and helped further direct me towards a better writing style due to better understanding. The discussion board "Understanding Rhetoric" helped navigate the students and help discuss with our peers on the topic. The videos we watched through this course helped me realize I used rhetoric on a daily basis more often than I had thought. Rhetoric is not only useful in written work, but in my field of work as well, I am a salesman by profession. My methods of persuasion use rhetoric in order to convince a customer to purchase
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This made me brainstorm on the topic and the genre of the assignment in order to create a well thought out solution that is easily conveyed to the audience through the paper or the visual PSA. This required me to find a real time problem, previous attempts to solve the issue and my own better way to help solve the problem. I needed good resources on what was previously done and the results of what had followed after implementing these new tactics. The main reason I chose to write about distracted driving in Las Vegas was due to the daily accidents we have here and the high fatality rate due to these accidents. I believe that evaluating the results of past endeavors created to stop this issue is crucial to build something better, also appeal more to the audience in order to have better results. Below are a few excerpts from Project #2 that uphold my stance on the dangers of distracted driving and the lack of influence of implemented programs.
Texting while driving is more deadly than driving under the influence of alcohol. Tests show that drivers’ braking distances are much worse while texting than being legally drunk, and texting while driving is seventeen times more dangerous than talking on a cell phone.” (Fumento, …show more content…
Both Project #1 and Project #2 challenged me to hone my skills and lessons learned from this class in order to progress and grow as a writer. Though the projects differed, each had its own focus, such as Project #1 focusing on persuading the audience with evidence and credible sources. All the claims I made in order to convince within this topic required much research and credible sources on this topic in order to create my own opinion and back it with facts. Project #1 targeted all age groups that used technology on a daily basis, so my tone was formal because of the wide scope of possible readers. In order to show the scope of the problem to the audience on the NSA spying controversy, I had used sources such as articles that had direct leaked information. This raised issues high controversy over the topic due to the lack of privacy in anyone 's lives and the risk of hindering the Internet. Here are some examples of the supporting quotes I had used for Project
This made me brainstorm on the topic and the genre of the assignment in order to create a well thought out solution that is easily conveyed to the audience through the paper or the visual PSA. This required me to find a real time problem, previous attempts to solve the issue and my own better way to help solve the problem. I needed good resources on what was previously done and the results of what had followed after implementing these new tactics. The main reason I chose to write about distracted driving in Las Vegas was due to the daily accidents we have here and the high fatality rate due to these accidents. I believe that evaluating the results of past endeavors created to stop this issue is crucial to build something better, also appeal more to the audience in order to have better results. Below are a few excerpts from Project #2 that uphold my stance on the dangers of distracted driving and the lack of influence of implemented programs.
Texting while driving is more deadly than driving under the influence of alcohol. Tests show that drivers’ braking distances are much worse while texting than being legally drunk, and texting while driving is seventeen times more dangerous than talking on a cell phone.” (Fumento, …show more content…
Both Project #1 and Project #2 challenged me to hone my skills and lessons learned from this class in order to progress and grow as a writer. Though the projects differed, each had its own focus, such as Project #1 focusing on persuading the audience with evidence and credible sources. All the claims I made in order to convince within this topic required much research and credible sources on this topic in order to create my own opinion and back it with facts. Project #1 targeted all age groups that used technology on a daily basis, so my tone was formal because of the wide scope of possible readers. In order to show the scope of the problem to the audience on the NSA spying controversy, I had used sources such as articles that had direct leaked information. This raised issues high controversy over the topic due to the lack of privacy in anyone 's lives and the risk of hindering the Internet. Here are some examples of the supporting quotes I had used for Project