I have never heard of or learned about rhetorical terms, so the entire first paper was a very confusing time for me. I did learn how to use the libraries database to look up different kids of sources, making my paper easier than it would have been otherwise. This is currently the only class where I am learning anything new and it is somewhat exciting as school has never really challenged me before. I’m high school I would have been 1.) given all of these sources and 2.) told to prove my argument on the topic. This differs greatly from the paper we just wrote and even as challenging as it was, it was nice to write something different for a change. This type of paper showed me a new way to analyze my work as well as others and added a different perspective to how people write. Starting from having no prior knowledge on how to write a paper on rhetoric, the process was a bit rocky towards the beginning but once I understood what that mean it made writing the paper a lot easier. I discovered that my goal was not to prove a point or anything like that, but instead my goal was to explain his explanation of a topic and how he went about doing it. This form of writing isn’t difficult but it is still new to me and I have some getting used to.
