Reflective Essay: Rhetorical Analysis Of An Article

This semester in English 101 has been a major eye opener for me. When I signed up for the class I didn’t anticipate the mass amount of material that we would cover. In addition to that I didn’t think about all the skills that I would learn over the course of this semester, which gave me a solid foundation and skill set for the remainder of my college career, and eventually into the real world. The first thing that this class taught me was how to use rhetorical devices to make my paper much stronger than it was before. When using these devices, you are able to appeal to your audience so that they can feel a better connection, and in turn agree with what you are trying to convey. For example, you would want to address someone who you are trying to make a business deal with differently than someone that you want to make jokes or poke fun at. I also learned when to use appropriate tone and formality in my writing depending on who my audience is which expanded my use of communication within my writing. You can see this in my paper when we wrote our Rhetorical Analysis of an Article. In my first submission I had a split voice, and in my final draft I have a complete voice and tone that stayed appropriate to the audience that I was speaking to. …show more content…
I hope that by reading through these essays you too can expand your knowledge and skill set of proper writing.

Overall this course was very beneficial to me. I learned more than I could have predicted. I learned how to be a fundamental writer for the rest of my college experience by fixing small flaws that I had within my writing. The resources presented in class are resources that I will use the rest of my academic career and I am very appreciative of