During ENG 1020, we completed many assignments focusing on the three main goals of this course, teach students about different styles of rhetorical situation, learn about the different genres of reading, research, and writing, and to teach students to develop analyses and arguments using research-based content, effective organizations, and appropriate expression and mechanics. Throughout this course, I have learned how to search and specifically find appropriate sources using the CRAAP test, identify proper characteristics of a rhetorical piece, and be able to reflect on my own writing by completing multiple drafts. These experiences allowed me to improve my persuasion techniques, my ability to find reliable information, and editing skills.
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I learned these skills during Assignment #1, Rhetorical Analysis, when we were to conduct a paper that "identifies, describes, and analyzes the argumentative and rhetorical strategies used by the author of the article you are assigned to study." Throughout this assignment, we focused on our reading skills, being able to identify the main arguments, including the ethos, logos, and pathos, followed by valuable information that could be effective in writing a piece on it. Written in my paper, called “A Rhetorical Analysis of “College Athletes Are Being Educated, Not Exploited””, I provide a summary of the articles purpose and the intended audience, while also expressing my findings of the types of persuasion. For example, I found that Val Ackerman and Larry Scott were credible sources, commissioners for different conferences, they provided a good source of ethos. Providing statistics from reliable sources, they provided logos, and then use pathos by appealing to the emotion and beliefs of their audience by “including how students who go to school as college athletes learn many life lessons and skills that give them wisdom about how their future will be.” Being able to identify these key elements of persuasion is an important skill when reading our sources because it can reflect on what you intend to write
I learned these skills during Assignment #1, Rhetorical Analysis, when we were to conduct a paper that "identifies, describes, and analyzes the argumentative and rhetorical strategies used by the author of the article you are assigned to study." Throughout this assignment, we focused on our reading skills, being able to identify the main arguments, including the ethos, logos, and pathos, followed by valuable information that could be effective in writing a piece on it. Written in my paper, called “A Rhetorical Analysis of “College Athletes Are Being Educated, Not Exploited””, I provide a summary of the articles purpose and the intended audience, while also expressing my findings of the types of persuasion. For example, I found that Val Ackerman and Larry Scott were credible sources, commissioners for different conferences, they provided a good source of ethos. Providing statistics from reliable sources, they provided logos, and then use pathos by appealing to the emotion and beliefs of their audience by “including how students who go to school as college athletes learn many life lessons and skills that give them wisdom about how their future will be.” Being able to identify these key elements of persuasion is an important skill when reading our sources because it can reflect on what you intend to write