Reflection on Project 2 Draft

In this post I will reflect on my own rhetorical analysis draft. However, I will be taking into account what I have learned about my own writing by reading Clay and Mark's drafts.

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Thesis:

In my draft, I had an identifiable thesis and did describe what I was going to be talking about. However, it was suggested that I split my thesis into two sentences so that I could be more specific about my points.

Organization:

I feel like my organization was relatively good throughout my draft. I definitely split up my topics into specific areas and had endings to each topic that the reader could identify. My reviewer suggested that I find ways to talk about how ethos and pathos work together instead of separating them. For my draft, I decided to split each strategy that my author used into its own paragraph, including its examples and explanations.

Identifying the elements of rhetorical situation:

Honestly, I don't think that I did. I did identify the audience and date of the article ,I did not talk about why these were important and did not discuss the other three elements. As I go back to revise my paper, I will include these elements and keep in mind why they are important to rhetorical analysis. 

Rhetorical Strategies:

I did illustrate how my authors used their rhetorical strategies, but now I feel that I did not effectively explain why. I did make an attempt, but it could definitely be better.I also tried to discuss how these strategies affected the audience, but I feel like I also have a lot of revising to do. I identified how they affect the audience, but not in detail, and I should explain why.

Evidence:

I think I did a good job of including evidence in my draft. I introduced each direct quote and tried to keep the natural flow of the paragraph. Also, my peers noted that I did a good job of incorporating brackets and ellipses in each direct quote. I also think that I did explain why they are relevant to the strategies that I reference in my essay.

Conclusion:

I have always struggled with conclusions. So, I feel that I definitely tried to answer the "so what" question, but, I should go back and change it until it flows well and truly answers the question. I did introduce a bigger picture within my conclusion, so depending on the readers' interests, they could possibly want more after reading my essay.