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Mohammed Mia
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What I have learned in writing so far this semester similarly relates to the types of writing I’ve done all throughout high school. As we started off writing a rhetorical analysis essay in this semester, I was pretty familiar with it because that is all I did in my senior year of high school in AP Literature. My understanding of the rhetorical terms I’ve learned since the beginning of the semester has not changed much. For some of the terms, I was introduced with a different definition and learned how that term is analyzed about an article regarding it’s new definition. For example, I always knew what stance meant, but implementing that into the rhetorical analysis was something new I had to do and successfully analyze the author’s stance upon the question. In other classes like philosophy, I’ve encountered many kinds of reflection writing pieces to be completed regarding the book we were supposed to read and answer the questions the professor has asked us to answer in class.  Additionally, in USSO, I’ve had to do one analysis paper of the types of people living back then. It was about the people being in favor of certain rules/regulations and analyzing the difference in gender roles from then to now. Then, it came time to write my first English essay in college. I was a bit overwhelmed when I heard it had to be 7 pages long, but with a step by step plan, I was able to do it. So many thoughts were racing through my mind. I mainly used the student examples from the class website to try and mimic the layout that the student had because it was nice and organized. That was a problem I feel I had because I had to do an analysis of four different sources with different rhetorical terms given to us. This process got me to understand that in writing, the one time you write something down is only the beginning. I tried to make it a one and done piece of writing to just get over it but I realized that wasn’t possible.