Writing Development Rough Rough Draft
When it came to writing, I used to be like a monkey just mashing buttons on a typewriter. My skills and understanding in the rhetorical analysis were that of a small child trying to understand nuclear fission, and my paragraph organization was as bad as when you pull out headphones from your pocket and you have the worlds most complicated knot. In short, my arguments didn’t support the main thesis and argument, which led to confusion on the paper and the lack of a sense of direction or endpoint left the reader clueless on what the paper was even about. Audience was the biggest hurdle of the semester, and it took one huge leap to overcome.
The first issue that came to mind when I reviewed my other papers and drafts was the lack of supporting and direct arguments. My papers were more of a discussion or an opinion piece. I kept using words and phrases that showed my support to the subject like in my first paper (Insert quote). In one of my drafts for my Research Argument, which argued that mandatory education would cut teen crime down, I didn’t even include statistics regarding teen crime. It was shortsighted at best when I didn’t include direct examples of how much crime there was in the United States. In later drafts I went through the paper and removed things that could be related to my opinion or arguments and discussions that were just way too vague. I went back in and inserted statistics like (Insert quote). More statistics throughout the entire paper gave the paper a much more credible feeling.
Early in my papers I found that my rhetorical analysis lacked greatly. Mainly, my understanding of ethos, pathos, and logos were elementary at best. I would think that I was writing with some sense of rhetorical analysis but in the end, it didn’t cut it. I particularly struggled with pathos and ethos. This connects back to the main argument; my ability to relate and get to the audience was where I suffered the most. I didn’t know how to get people to emotionally connect to my papers or grow any connection to it at all. My solution at the time was to just be strong in my speech and hope that the reader would take the confidence as my own credibility. I quickly realized that this was actually a way to show my bias towards certain subjects, which destroyed my credibility in the end.
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