My Rhetorical Analysis: How To Be A Successful College Student

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Coming straight out of high school to this class I wasn’t ready my high school teachers didn’t give me the knowledge that I needed so I can be a successful college student. The class Fundamentals of Writing was a class that me as student was worried about coming straight out of high school me personally, I didn’t think I had the skills I needed to be able to come into this class and do well in it. Writing my first paper I was a little lost with the whole rhetorical situation I didn’t really understand where to start. For the writing I knew It was going to be tough I didn’t have the skills that were required for the college courses. As the time has passed by I have learned a lot not only have I learned the skills that are useful I have learned different ways to apply these skills. My writing has come a long way I think not only because we have written so many papers but having our peers read over what we have wrote and giving us a different point of view of different things. I think the best activity is when we had to give feedback on others papers giving them different ways to write things. Your peers can make your paper so much better just because they a …show more content…
Manick introduced to me that “Ethos the ethical appeal is based on the character, credibility, or reliability of the writer, for example I have run a successful business, I can help the economy any businessman/wannabe politician, Pathos the emotional appeal, appeals to an audience 's needs, values, and emotional sensibilities, for example The lifelong pain and anguish experience by children of abusive and neglectful parents can never be erased, Logos the appeal based on logic or reason, for example Every day, tuberculosis kills 5,000 people. The global incidence rate of tuberculosis is rising; therefore, we need to commit more resources to finding a more effective cure”

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