I tackled those essays incorrectly. Instead of analyzing the effect of the rhetoric on the audience on focused more on paraphrasing the quotes that I chose and explaining the meaning of the essay. This was not the focus of a rhetorical analysis essay. Also, I had many flaws structuring my essay, including not being concise, misidentifying the rhetorical devices, and many flaws in the structure of my topic sentences. For example, in the Florence Kelley essay, the first essay of the year, my topic sentence did not sufficiently set up the body paragraph for the rhetorical device that the paragraph focused on. During the middle of the year I began to focus more on analyzing the quotes I chose rather than paraphrasing them, but still, my rhetorical analysis essays contained only two body paragraphs as time was a major obstacle that I had to overcome. But by the end of the year, I mastered an efficient way of finding the rhetorical devices faster as well as being more concise in areas such as the introductory and concluding
I tackled those essays incorrectly. Instead of analyzing the effect of the rhetoric on the audience on focused more on paraphrasing the quotes that I chose and explaining the meaning of the essay. This was not the focus of a rhetorical analysis essay. Also, I had many flaws structuring my essay, including not being concise, misidentifying the rhetorical devices, and many flaws in the structure of my topic sentences. For example, in the Florence Kelley essay, the first essay of the year, my topic sentence did not sufficiently set up the body paragraph for the rhetorical device that the paragraph focused on. During the middle of the year I began to focus more on analyzing the quotes I chose rather than paraphrasing them, but still, my rhetorical analysis essays contained only two body paragraphs as time was a major obstacle that I had to overcome. But by the end of the year, I mastered an efficient way of finding the rhetorical devices faster as well as being more concise in areas such as the introductory and concluding