Rhetoric Techniques In My Writing

Rhetorical strategies are a great way for an author to get their tone and what they want to share to their reader. In Barbara Jordan’s Becoming Educated she uses rhetorical strategies to do just that. Jordan uses repetition and diction to increase her effectiveness of her message. She does so that the reader can also relate to what she is going through. By using repletion and diction she weaves these rhetorical devices throughout her experience to increase its effectiveness to convey her voice and her personal sense of growth.

It’s hard to imagine that just ten short months ago I was sitting in a classroom building a spaghetti tower with no idea what a rhetorical analysis essay was or what the word anaphora meant. Now, just a couple of months later, I have read and analyzed six different novels, learned to write an argument, synthesis, and rhetorical analysis essay, expanded my lexicon of literary terms, and sat through a three hour AP exam. This class has not only given me the skills to master the AP exam, but it has also given me knowledge to succeed in future English courses and in life. Through this course, I have experienced unparalleled growth in my reading comprehension and writing abilities.

In his article “If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault,” David Theo Goldberg effectively informs the reader about the effects that computers in the home and school environment could have on the future education of the coming generations. Goldberg achieves this by executing defined organization and adding unique comparisons about the potentially crippling effects technology can have on a society when put into the wrong hands.

Rhetorical strategies are techniques writers use for a particular effect. In previous classes, you might have been introduced to them as “literary devices” – others will be completely new to you. When thinking of language choices that we make when writing or speaking, think of it like this -- everyone draws from a “toolbox” of rhetorical strategies as they express ideas and evoke responses in their readers. The more “tricks” of language that you know, the more effectively you can say what you want in the most effective way.

Advertising is all around us. Companies of all sorts rely heavily on internet, television, print, and various other types of media outlets as means to reach their audience. Advertising aims to bring in more customers and thereby, more profit. All of this is complicated by the fact that, out of the vast number of products and services available, companies want to prove that theirs are the best. From this is born the tricky and unique language of advertising. In their respective articles, With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything and The Language of Advertising, both William Lutz and Charles A. O’Neill discuss popular ploys used by marketing advertisers to rope in the most customers. Lutz takes a

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.

Throughout my project I used multiple different rhetorical strategies to argue my claims. My audience is my peers in AP language and composition, and my purpose is to convince them that the name that was given by our parents influences our life. One rhetorical choice I made was to include a lot of different evidence to back up my claim. I included various experiments that were done and analyzed the results. This is an effective strategy because my audience would know that I have proof to show that names influence how people act toward you and how it determines our futures. Including a lot of evidence and proof boosts my credibility high so my audience will believe me and my argument more easily. Another rhetorical strategy that I made to develop

Letters are an example of communication methods that people use to get their messages across. They usually include the purpose that the writer wants to accomplish, how it can be accomplished, and the reason of accomplishing it. This way, a letter fulfills its purpose with high effectiveness. If a letter is considered effective, then it is because of its collection of different information from different angles. It at least has to answer the questions what, how, and why in thoughtful answers. Other questions, such as where and when, are preferably to be answered too, but not necessarily. My letter effectively uses rhetorical strategies such as word choice and showing statistics to convince the University of Arizona Police Department Chief to ban texting while driving on campus.

Neil Armstrong was close to not being the first man to step foot onto the moon. Edwin Aldrin allowed his college to take the first step not wanting the fame. The following articles all relate to the first landing on the moon, Man Takes First Steps on the Moon appearing in the Times of London written by anonymous reports the event of the moon landing, In Event of Moon Disaster written by William Safire prepared for President Nixon to present if the moon landing did not succeed, The July 16, 1969, Launch: A Symbol of Man’s Greatness written by Ayn Rand describes her view on how man is the superior species, Transported illustrated by Herblock, people are distracted by the moon landing, they don't realize the true troubles happening in their own world. All articles contain rhetorical strategies allowing the reader to trust the author connect to the text on an emotional level and provide logical reasoning.

In this paper I am going to be explaining what I learned in Rhetoric this term such as I was never a very good speaker or presenter and now I feel like I am a natural at this and very comfortable giving speeches now. Also we were given a book to read this term called Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies a book about migrant workers that I will be writing a review of that book and stating a certain controversy that ties into this book that we read and help to give my audience a better understanding of what I covered from reading this book. Another thing I have to do is give my stance on a controversial issue that coincides with the book.

According to the 100A assignment sheet for the rhetorical analysis, a rhetorical analysis (R.A.) is a type of writing which evaluates a well written document of a writer. In this assignment, students will get opportunities to improve their writing and develop deep analytic skills to identifying rhetorical strategies that writer will use to achieve the purpose of a well-written document. The audience for this analytical paper will be my classmates, professor, and the committee members of the 100A.

I think your rhetorical analysis is very good. I like how detailed you were and how you used something the author would say and then explained your thoughts on it. I especially like how you used the “map it out” quote from the article and explained it by talking about building a house. I think that makes it more understandable than just saying “map it out. The only suggestion I have is why is the author a credible source? Other than that I thought you did a very good job actually analyzing the paper.

There are different types of strategies used to get information to all people. The particular way a speaker presents their argument or information is known as rhetoric. In short, rhetoric is defined as, “the art of effective communication”(Stedman). How you can get your point across is just as effective as the information that you are giving. In the video’s we have reviewed there are several types of rhetoric used, with some examples being greatly exaggerated to make emphasis.

East West University has some of the best teachers but all of them very different, far as their teaching methods, the way the classes are, and etc. Two of my favorite teachers in particular Mr.Murray and Mr.Miller. Murray teaches Rhetoric Styles which is a writing class that shows us different forms of writing and how to write passages, essays, blogs and more. Miller teaches a regular math class. Murray´s class is fairly small compared to Miller´s, which happens to be Awesome for me. I like being able to concentrate and focus on my work without any distractions, Mr. Murray provides just that. Don´t get me wrong, when i´m in Millers math class i focus but its easily for me to get distracted due to it being a bigger class and the way he teaches

During the course of this year, I have grown tremendously as a reader of literature. While reading books this year, I have learned how to analyze different aspects of the text. Using first meaning and second meaning, I can acquire a deeper understanding of what the author is integrating into the story. Before this year, I mostly only read novels by a few authors and only about specific genres. After the second quarter, I have started to read books from all kinds of genres including science fiction, fantasy, crime fiction, mystery, historical fiction, and satire. One topic that I have really started to be immersed in was poetry. Ever since the poetry unit started, I have fallen in love with watching spoken word poetry videos and reading countless poetry books. I feel a connection to relatable poetry and just cannot stop reading poems. Throughout this school year, I have mastered the art of noticing signposts, finding literary