Thus far the project has been tough, yet rewarding. Initially, there was a class decision on what project we wanted to work on, after voting, the Gloria Gemma’s Gidget’s Corner project came out as the victor. After collaborating amongst each other, we came up with how a plan to break down the project. We picked which group we wanted to be a part of and began to work in according to our broken-down project assignments. Although we just breached the amidst of the preliminary stages of this project, there have been several learning outcomes met: rhetorical knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, and genre knowledge.
Rhetorical knowledge, or applying persuasive concepts to situations, has been used throughout the entire project. This began
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Chapter one touches upon reflecting on your work in the sense that it discusses proofreading, which is a type of reflecting. Also, chapter five mentions analyzing documents for information during the research process. This was done throughout the gathering of background information when I had to read the document from the students of last year’s class who initiated this project. Reading that document meant that I had to ignore a lot of information that was not important for what we were looking for and at the same time picking out information that seemed beneficial to the class. As we worked on our document every sentence written had to be reread and considered valuable enough to keep in the document. One last part of the thoughtful practices the group and myself conducted was mentioned in chapter three. This was the planning part of the document, we did not simply just start writing out background or introduction information, we shared a document, bulleted our ideas, discussed them amongst each other, and then wrote and rewrote once we felt we made our point clear.
Genre knowledge was heavily seen throughout every chapter we have read thus far into class. From setting up this memo and reading about the proper format, formatting the one pager to appeal to the audience, and the future proposal design for the Foundation. This formatting is correlated with the chapter three reading that discusses design principles. This is important because after the
Thus, I am worthy to aid others with their academic encounters (Walden University (2014c)). Similarly, in the second part of the test, I learned I have an aural learning style. Before week three, I never thought about this area. But it is true that when I listen to music while studying, I focus much better than studying in silence. The music also provides inspiration when I get tired or feel like I cannot finish an assignment (Walden University (2014 d)).Again, In the discussion this week, I learned, story’s, paintings, videos and music are all a kind of effective realism. And incorporating voices, video or descriptive words can alter how I envision a piece of work. Therefore, it is imperative to be eloquent with words. Hence, write so the reader can get the actual importance the author is trying to portray. Too, I learned that the plot of the story can be transformed exaggeratedly when technology is added.
Authors, people and writers over time have used the available means of persuasion and making sure that they include what the rhetorical situation is. In the four texts about the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that talk about the first humans that landed on the moon, all were effective due to them showing ethos, pathos, logos and soaps which are the rhetorical appeals that one has to use when making an argument in a rhetorical situation.
The first chapter introduced the reader to the art of rhetoric. He describes how rhetoric works through real life examples. He demonstrates ways that rhetoric persuades us like, argument from strength, and seduction. He tells the reader that the sole purpose of arguing is to persuade the audience. He showed that the chief purpose of arguing is to also achieve consensus, a shared faith in a choice.
Rhetoric is a persuasive tool, consisting of logos which is logic and reasoning, pathos which is emotional language and ethos which is character and fundamental values. Rhetoric is a fundamental thing used by pigs and importantly Squealer, whom persuade other animals to follow the pig’s decisions and needs.
When taking English Composition 2 I have learned various things that I can carry through with me throughout the rest of my academic and social life. The class English Composition 2 touched on the components of character, setting, short story, drama, and poetry. With each section and a lecture on each section I have taken away a piece away from each section, one thing that is for sure I will never read literature the same after this class. When talking about character we looked into the story Gorilla My Love and how the story is told through the eyes of a young black girl named Hazel. Concluding from this section of the class I learned that if the characters were to be different characters the story would change as whole. When looking deeper into the concept of setting as a class we had the opportunity to learn how to depict where the setting is, and learn how the setting can make a difference in any type of literature. For the concept of short stories as a student I looked deeper into the story of 20/20. After, a struggle on the topic of short stories I learned the different compontes that go into and are used in making a short story. For an example, the story 20/20 uses the model Freytag’s Pyramid to tell the story line. The component of Drama happened to be my favorite component of the class. I
Often times in daily life, a person will use rhetoric. Whether it’s arguing with a sibling or the sound of an alarm, rhetoric is in use. Rhetoric is effective persuasion and persuasion is swaying someone to do or believe in something. The reason rhetoric is important to be taught in school is because not only does it often show up in daily life but it can show up in the media as well.
Many authors use rhetorical devices and strategies to get their point across and try to convince the reader to believe in their perspective. It can also be used to get emotions from its readers, but that isn’t really the whole point of persuading someone. For instance, Martin Luther King Jr. uses an abundance of pathos in order to make the reader or clergymen feel sympathy towards the black people. Along with pathos, he uses logos and a bundle of hypophora. In order to obtain the goal of persuasion, Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter contains rhetorical devices.
Rhetoric is a significant part of our everyday lives. Whether it's convincing our friends to go to a concert on the weekend, to go to a certain place for lunch, or even convincing yourself to do something that you should but don't want to do. Rhetoric is all around us today. Billboard ads, television commercials, newspaper ads, political speeches, even news stories all try, to some degree, to sway our opinion or convince us to take some sort of action. If you take a step back to look and think about it, rhetoric, in all actuality, shapes our lives. Every day we have an array of options of things to do or things to buy. So every day, our opinion or actions are being influenced, however minutely, by rhetoric.
We use rhetoric every day without even realizing it. Correctly using rhetoric on a specific group of people can drastically increase an arguments’ strength. Benjamin R. Barber wrote an article conveying his research on the failing school systems in the U.S titled America Skips School published in Harper’s Magazine. Barber uses rhetorical elements like ethos, pathos, and logos to build his argument. He establishes his credibility and then emotionally connects with his audience and explains who and what is to blame for the lack of quality education in America. Once he establishes a solid connection using these
When listening to a speech, you may often think about the different tactics the speaker is using in order to get an audience to agree with him or her. How was the presenter able to show me a point of view that I have never even thought about before? How did I gain this new sense of knowledge in such a short amount of time? The answer to these questions is answered with the use of rhetorical components. Rhetorical components are used to persuade an audience to agree with the speaker or to get an audience to leave old beliefs behind, and adopt the new beliefs of the presenter.
Maybe you don’t have a specific set of claims or beliefs you want your audience to adopt. Even if you do, provide brief responses to the following:
Rhetoric can define as “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” There are many different types of rhetoric to help us analyze texts and illustrations. The different types of rhetoric can include ethos, logos, and pathos. As well as soaps and if the text is effective or ineffective. Soaps stand for speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject. The Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon was a very important time in 1969. This is very important to remember because whilst analyzing the four texts regarding that topic I came across the rhetoric appeals and their effective and ineffectiveness.
The word rhetoric is a form of literature that is used when one is trying to be effective in speaking and writing. Most people will utilize rhetoric writing at the same time they are trying to write a persuasive essay and not even know it. Not only is it used to persuade but also to motivate the reader on a specific topic or subject. I believe its the most effective style of writing and speaking that there is. This brings me back about two years ago when I wanted a fast sports car for my 17th birthday. I knew it wasn't going to come easy since my parents were very aware of my poor driving habits. This is when I realized I was going to have to be rhetoric, so I did just that. First, I researched all the important safety features the car had.
Rhetoric is a course in which students are taught the values of persuasion. And yet, behind this course is the utmost power to corrupt the world, changing it into a world of our own policies. This power, even though seldom discussed, has lead to many intriguing discoveries. One such discovery is how people are able to shape the world they live in simply by choosing the right words. Therefore those who would want the world to be a better place must protect this power. If in the wrong hands this power could cause serious damage. Several authors have striven to protect rhetoric and its power. Few agree on the matter of defining rhetoric, but they know that they must protect rhetoric from dark souls. A single definition of rhetoric must maintain a simplistic nature while incorporating every aspect of rhetoric. However, I argue that rhetoric is a means of persuading audiences of a situation and a particular reality through language and personal appeal. In order to prove this definition I will discuss how rhetoric creates a situation, the shaping of a different reality, the audience, the use of language, and the personal appeal. Finally, I will demonstrate the absolute need for rhetoric.
Conclusion is the sixth step and it is about what else writer could have done and what could writer not have done. The final step is the action plan. The action plan will be about what writer will do if this situation arose again or what writer will do differently bearing in mind writer experience from the steps above (Jasper 2003).Reflective practice writing is a way of expressing and explaining one's own and others stories crafting and shaping to and understanding and development and it enables practice development because the outcomes of reflection are taken back into practice, improving and developing (Bolton 2005). Reflection "is a way of learning from your direct experiences, rather than from the second-hand experiences of others" (Cottrel 2003, p6). There are several other models of reflective practice. In addition to the Gibbs (1998) models, there are the Johns' model of reflection (1995); Kolb's Learning Cycle (1984) and the Atkins and Murphy's model of reflection