Throughout my time in the Blugold Seminar class, I have developed and presented an abundant amount of skills that will prepare me for my future. One of these skills was my use of key rhetorical terms such as exigence, purpose, audience, rhetor, logos, kairos, pathos, identification, and enthymeme. The second skill I developed was the expertise in finding and evaluating a variety of source materials. Third was the use of images, sounds, and animations and understanding how they are the building block of 21st century communication. I have not mastered this fourth skill, but I have improved on it throughout the semester, and that is my ability to understand and enact revision as substantive change. Lastly, I learned how to participate ethically
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I used most of these terms in my rhetorical analysis paper, but also less obviously in all of my other papers. The rhetorical analysis paper was specifically about these terms and how they can be used to analyze another article of our choosing. I did my analysis on Charles Bardes’ article, “Defining Patient-Centered Medicine” in The New England Journal of Medicine. To explain how rhetor effects the article I wrote, “The rhetor or author, Charles Bardes, is extremely versed in the topic of patient-centered medicine as he studied the medical field at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine” (S2 1). To find this information I had to research the author and prove he is a reliable resource that you can trust, which his studies at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine confirm. Rhetor is important for the reader to know because it helps build trust, convince the audience, and create ethos in their article. Later in that paper I talk about how logos plays a factor in convincing or persuading the audience in Bardes’ article. In my segment two paper I use a quote from the …show more content…
This skill was shown the most in the segment three project which was the research paper because we needed to use sources to back our point. Part of the project was not only finding the sources, but also determining which ones were worth using and which ones would not be effective in our paper. To be sure I got a scholarly source, I used the McIntyre Library’s database instead of a Google search because it is much more reliable. Narrowing down which sources to use was the difficult part because I had to read every article and think about which quotes would help support my point. I talk about my sources briefly when I write, “I did find a few sources that were very ineffective, but I avoided them and decided to use sources that were productive” (S3 6). Describing the process and results of searching for sources is a good indication of what I have learned about finding and evaluating source
I used most of these terms in my rhetorical analysis paper, but also less obviously in all of my other papers. The rhetorical analysis paper was specifically about these terms and how they can be used to analyze another article of our choosing. I did my analysis on Charles Bardes’ article, “Defining Patient-Centered Medicine” in The New England Journal of Medicine. To explain how rhetor effects the article I wrote, “The rhetor or author, Charles Bardes, is extremely versed in the topic of patient-centered medicine as he studied the medical field at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine” (S2 1). To find this information I had to research the author and prove he is a reliable resource that you can trust, which his studies at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine confirm. Rhetor is important for the reader to know because it helps build trust, convince the audience, and create ethos in their article. Later in that paper I talk about how logos plays a factor in convincing or persuading the audience in Bardes’ article. In my segment two paper I use a quote from the …show more content…
This skill was shown the most in the segment three project which was the research paper because we needed to use sources to back our point. Part of the project was not only finding the sources, but also determining which ones were worth using and which ones would not be effective in our paper. To be sure I got a scholarly source, I used the McIntyre Library’s database instead of a Google search because it is much more reliable. Narrowing down which sources to use was the difficult part because I had to read every article and think about which quotes would help support my point. I talk about my sources briefly when I write, “I did find a few sources that were very ineffective, but I avoided them and decided to use sources that were productive” (S3 6). Describing the process and results of searching for sources is a good indication of what I have learned about finding and evaluating source