Rhetorical Analysis Of Letters From The English Class

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To my esteemed English teacher,
By writing you this letter, I hope to demonstrate my growth throughout the year and my final mastery of the course’s content. During the revision of the synthesis, I mostly adjusted the shape of the piece; grammar and syntax needed to be fixed in many passages in order to provide a clearer explanation of my ideas. Nevertheless, the rhetorical analysis needed further labor on the content; precisely, the explanation of the author’s use of a certain rhetorical device to achieve his purpose needed to be more detailed.
I wrote the both pieces keeping in mind that my audience would be extremely educated upon English language and composition. This vision helped me shaping my syntax and diction, encouraging me to refine it continually in search of a perfection limit. As a highly educated public, you deserve a syntax that is complex enough to communicate all the facets of my ideas through subordinates, but that is also satisfactorily clean to keep my main thought clear. A mistake that derived from my heavy syntax choice was the habit to write
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For instance, when talking about how Paine used rhetorical appeals to create enthusiasm for the revolutionary cause, I needed to broader explain how the rhetorical strategies I was citing were working and why they were help Paine reach his purpose. In my draft, I only cited Paine’s use of logos as rational, allowing the audience to use their common sense to draw a conclusion, citing an example from the text and suddenly moving to discuss pathos. Looking back at the draft, I realized how I needed additional commentary about how, exactly, my example appeals to logos and how and why Paine uses this strategy to support the revolution and promote republicanism as a better form of

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