Reflections

Reflections about Writing Project 1:

    Looking at the end product, I believe that my photo essay told the audience what I wanted to tell them.  It perfectly showed that cars are not just tools that get us from point a to point b, But cars are a masterpiece of design and practicality rolled into something that gets us to work, school, or to see family around the holiday.  In closing my photo essay tells the story of how cars are so much more than just tools.  I loved working on this project because of the amount of freedom we were given.

Reflections for Writing Project 2:

    All in all I believe that I did a fairly good job composing the paper over all.  There were a few points where digging into the posters to find the Ethos, Logos,and Pathos were rather challenging.  It is hard to look “beneath” the poster and see how it was constructed to catch the readers attention.  It was also interesting some of these posters used fear to get the readers to do what the people that created it wanted them to do.   Looking back I believe that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in this paper.  This is my first professional rhetorical analysis ever in my college career, I guess I could have done one subconsciously in the course of my college career, but this is my first one I have submitted for an academic grade.  Once I got into a sort of rhythm of composing and drafting my paper, explaining the Ethos, Logos, and Pathos became very easy.  I hope that it actually was easy, and I just did not do it wrong. I believe that I went with my design plan.  I believe that I followed all the main points of my design plan as well.  I explained the Ethos, Logos, and Pathos for each poster.  I also explained how the visual and the text worked together to get the message across to the reader, or audience.  Overall rhetorical analysis did start off as something big and scary, but once you dive into it, it really is not that bad.  I thought that it was going to be impossible to do because it looked hard, but as it turns out it really was not.

Refections for Writing Project 3:

     Overall I think I completed what I set out to do in my synthesis paper.  There were some weak points as far as the Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.  I had a difficult time applying these to the synthesis part of the paper.  At first I thought that I was going to have a hard time with this paper, but after some help I thought that the paper was kind of like an argumentative paper, but with hard facts from articles of authors in the field of the changing workplace in our time.  After this paper I still believe that college is the best route to preparing to enter the modern work world.  In college they instructors know how to prepare you for entering the work world, and that is why I believe that college is the best route, and also how I feel I did on this synthesis paper.

Reflections for Writing Project 4:

    Writing Project 4 was by far the most difficult project in the class as a whole.  I think it was so hard because we could choose our topic and we had to find articles and books to use as our research.  Looking back though I think that this has prepared me well for the next time I am faced with an assignment like this again.  This project gave me the skills need to write a research paper correctly and with proper citing.  It also expanded my knowledge of certain writing styles, more specifically MLA format which is what I used for the majority of my writing projects.  Even though this was a difficult assignment I think that I am better off for it.  I have learned so much about how to write better and how to write a research paper, and when I look at my finished product I am very proud of how professional it looks.