Reflective Essay: Rhetoric Analysis In Literature

I wasn’t required to actually take your English class; however, the class was a good start at getting back into writing and bias analysis in literature. Completing rhetorical analyses defiantly needed a scrub down and cleared the dust off of my eyes. I wouldn’t say that my overall English writing had improved in this course, but that is not to say that it was useless for me. Exposure to writings that irked me and writing about them pushed me out of my comfort zone, forcing me to try to find a middle ground on emotional bias in my writings. The required readings refreshed the monotony of field specific articles, something I had missed after the constant augmentation of science. Inclusion of broader audiences is something I had forgotten …show more content…
In the time I had taken off from English I had forgotten the key process of reviewing and writing to the authority of author. The authority or credibility of an author writing on a subject must be carefully reviewed. In a scientific journal it is assumed that the author has credibility to write a high level research paper that can face review by experts in the field, so it is not a huge concern. Other field don’t have that luxury. An author of an opinion piece has two main options to establish credibility to their statements. They can either establish themselves as a credible source of the subject material, or they can use others to give credence to their …show more content…
By establishing this connection to the situations, the audience must trust the narrator one-hundred percent. I use the character to narrate their own feelings and senses by establishing their creditability on the topic of asexuality at the very end with them reveling that they are asexual. Before that the character uses facts from scientific journals and quotes from famous characters that are though to be asexual. In doing both forms of credibility the audience will have more reason to trust the essay rather than withdraw from