Unit 1

Assignment Question Reflection: 
The most helpful activity was the in class essay. Though the textbook provides many examples and are covered in class, I feel like I improve most from experience. However, I still have trouble conveying the information, even though the process and synthesis of the process of writing as a rhetor is explained in detail throughout the course. I would like to do more in class essays(even though it's really hurting my grade) to put the use of rhetoric in writing more commonplace and natural. I feel it is more important to know what my weaknesses are and improve in those areas than getting a good grade, and the in class essay is the best indication of where the level of my writing is located.


Essential Question Reflection: How do speakers & writers use Rhetorical devices to communicate their ideas?


The use of rhetorical devices varies for each rhetor. However, all rhetorical devices are used to communicate their ideas. Rhetorical devices are basically methods to convince the reader to take on one's idea. Ethos is used to prove one's credibility, Pathos to appeal to the emotions of the reader, thus making one's argument stronger, and Logos to back up your point of writing. These are the basic forms of rhetorical writing, and all other devices branch off of these three. By using these rhetorical devices, the argument and analysis of rhetor's work becomes more clear and persuasive than just stating opinions by backing up the opinions with facts, examples, and analysis.