Here at UCI, I have taken many writing courses before this class such as AC Eng. 20B, AC Eng. 20C, AC Eng. 20D, AC Eng. 28, Writing 39A, and Writing 39B. Writing has always been my biggest fear and it is something that I have the most difficulty doing it because English is not my first language that I have learned in my life. In addition, I never had any problem communicating with people, but when it comes to writing, I always have to go through a lot of struggles to put them into words because most of the time I find myself repeating the same concept throughout my writing, which most likely to make me go off topic. That lack of skills would always indicate in my academic paper. My experiences with the previous writing courses was not very
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Writing 39C course is there to mainly help us understand the rhetorical situation where we learn how we can conduct research and evaluate them using the numerous types of evidence from the different sources. Another thing, I have learned is that Rhetoric is an art of persuasion, where we are always already in rhetorical situation which we have persuaded. Also, Rhetoric is a technique that we can use to persuade our readers and audiences. In this course, I learned that we need to have very deep analysis and argument to persuade our peers with the strong evidence about the topic. And also we have to make sure that we always answer these four kinds of questions such as who is persuading, whom, of what and how they are doing it? My expectations for this class are that during these 10 weeks of this quarter is that I am hoping to learn how to recognize the form of rhetorical situation and rhetorical persuasion and able to learn how to make a strong argument with the evidence. Another expectation I have from this course is that I want to learn how to do good analyses of different genres from the reading which we have to read for this class because sometimes I get so confused with the vocabulary where I lose track of the reading and the meaning of the text. End of this quarter, I am expecting to be able to become a proficient writer and strengthen my writing skills, which will help me with my future career and courses. One of the most important things, I would like you to know about me is that I am a person who need a lot of help with writing especially when it comes to grammar, organization, and clearing the ideas about the
Writing 39C course is there to mainly help us understand the rhetorical situation where we learn how we can conduct research and evaluate them using the numerous types of evidence from the different sources. Another thing, I have learned is that Rhetoric is an art of persuasion, where we are always already in rhetorical situation which we have persuaded. Also, Rhetoric is a technique that we can use to persuade our readers and audiences. In this course, I learned that we need to have very deep analysis and argument to persuade our peers with the strong evidence about the topic. And also we have to make sure that we always answer these four kinds of questions such as who is persuading, whom, of what and how they are doing it? My expectations for this class are that during these 10 weeks of this quarter is that I am hoping to learn how to recognize the form of rhetorical situation and rhetorical persuasion and able to learn how to make a strong argument with the evidence. Another expectation I have from this course is that I want to learn how to do good analyses of different genres from the reading which we have to read for this class because sometimes I get so confused with the vocabulary where I lose track of the reading and the meaning of the text. End of this quarter, I am expecting to be able to become a proficient writer and strengthen my writing skills, which will help me with my future career and courses. One of the most important things, I would like you to know about me is that I am a person who need a lot of help with writing especially when it comes to grammar, organization, and clearing the ideas about the