For this semester I know for a bonafide fact I could have done better but due to circumstances throughout the semester I wasn’t at my best to absorb content or do work so this reflection will try to do its best to follow the guidelines.

So for the course learning objectives I feel confident to say that I did most of the learning objectives for example at the beginning of this semester I made an effort to at least explore and analyze in both my writing and reading a variety of rhetorical situations like in MLK’s speech there are many examples of rhetoric such as repetitions and metaphors that reinforce how MLK’s speech was so influential in the first place. I also did develop more on my skills for drafting papers. Though the only course objective I would say I would have difficulties with is Locating research sources since I was absent for that lesson and sometimes the internet while yes a powerful tool but even so it may not have all your information and maybe for other assignments in other classes you’ll need sources from other things besides the internet like a book or a person so that may be something I have to look into.

Rhetoric in this class was an eye-opener sort of thing for me to learn. All my life I had known what metaphors, similes,allusions, and more do but never understood in depth of why until now. For me Rhetoric is essentially a writer’s technical blueprint with each rhetorical device being used as a tool for whatever thing they want to convey within their writing.

I also learned a lot about the history of cuny’s activism and movements particularly the one we reviewed in class about the protest for free tuition as well as the city college students in 1969 who protested for changes in the schools policies such as open admissions and black & latino studies. These students even went as far as occupying the South Campus causing students to be unable to attend class there.

I want to better develop I guess my “cohesiveness” sometimes when I write I can see that I jump around alot and may stray away from my main points or just sound off in general and I just try my best to make it sound straight but maybe leave it weak in other parts of my writing so I want to be able to develop a way to be more streamlined and have my points and focus clearly be stated in my writing instead of it jumping around like Mario.

For each of my main writing processes I would say they all went pretty much the same with the exception of the mini analysis paper and the inquiry paper. 

The first paper was “This I no longer I believe” for this paper not much outlining was needed but this was my first college paper so I was more focused on achieving the length requirement and having a somewhat detailed personal story about something I no longer believe in. I decided to write on how my thoughts have changed on Fear and how it affects me especially if it was a strength or a weakness. Besides trying to explain how I adapt to “fear” I feel like this paper does alright.

The second paper was “Rhetorical Analysis Mini Paper” . Now for this paper I’m not gonna lie I took my time with it since the time this was assigned was when I started to drop off this semester due to my reasons but anyways I made up for it. I outlined this by first choosing my topic for each of my paragraphs which for paragraph 1 I had it explain my social movement which was the George Floyd Protests and then for  paragraph 2 and 3 I explained and analyzed the rhetoric which I honestly think I may have used rhetorical devices to explain them with only saying Pathos worked in paragraph 2 and not in 3 so hopefully my point gets across that both use Pathos with paragraph 2 using slogans and catchphrases on posters in protests  and paragraph 3 Reverend Al Sharpton and just the social movement in general using Pathos as its main “rhetoric”.

Lastly is the final paper itself besides this one which is the inquiry paper I decided to write about how gaming consoles influence the youth. I outlined my paragraphs by first introducing the topic then talking about gaming consoles and later talking about their advantages and disadvantages. The only real hard thing about this paper is gauging what you need per paragraph especially when it concerns your topic. For example my first two drafts were total busts since the information I needed to integrate together with my writing wasn’t enough to meet the length requirements.