Funeral Business Reflection

Taking a Look Back “What exactly is your controlling purpose?” I got asked this question so many times by my peers, my instructor, and even the tutors at the writing center to the point where it got frustrating to try and explain. Then I realized, my controlling purposes for all three of my interpretive essays were vague and confusing for my audience to understand. Because of my controlling purposes being confusing, the rest of my paper subsequently wasn’t coherent for my audience. But, the revision period came at the perfect time to begin revisions on my essays. Throughout this reflective project, I would like to touch on several things. I would like to reflect on choices I made throughout my essays and how they related to my rhetoric situation, the way my writing was influenced by the social nature as well as the collaborative process, and lastly how my writing works ethically to respond to others. There are many choices that I made …show more content…
Reading a text, analyzing it, and then developing conclusions about it, is a difficult process. This course really made me read something and break it down into smaller fragments. As I read now, I find myself analyzing everything and digging deeper into topics I wouldn’t normally dig into. Many of the texts we read could be interoperated in several different ways. I stated this idea in The Death of the Funeral Business essay I completed. I said, “Hingston may be trying to prove how a decline in religion affiliation might be leading to an increase in cremation? Without a religion, is it easier to make decisions about how your death is handled? Hingston may be saying that cremation is much simpler for the living and the dead. Is she pointing out the economic decision of being cremated over a normal funeral? All of these questions could be answers” (3). A reader could interoperate Hingston’s text in the ways I stated, it just depends on how you look at