My Daily Reflection Entry

Today in class we read an essay about cell phones and as we read we analyze the rhetorical strategies.  We couldn’t really get into a very big discussion about because the class left in went a Call of Duty tournament.  So we read and analyzed as much as we can before the class left and we went over some of the strategies.

My Daily Reflection Entry

So today our teacher wasn’t here and our sub left.  We went to the teacher class next door to our classroom and she let us sit in there and complete work that we didn’t finish.

My Daily Reflection Entry

Today in class we wrote an paragraph based on an essay we read as a class. The essay, “Is Google making us Stupid,” is an argument that the internet is affecting our capacity to make our own associations and develop our own ideas.  So today we used the information from Friday and we answered a prompt that was given based on that essay.  After we finished our paragraph, the teacher gave our papers to a different so they can read it and critique it.  They were suppose to analyze the mistakes we made so can work on it and have time to progress on it.

My Faily Reflection Post

Today in class we reviewed how to write an rhetorical analysis essay.  We took notes based on how the prompt should be answered and what the purpose of the essay.  It purpose is to analyze the strategies of the essay not what the essay is about.  In order to know the strategies, you have read the passage in order know what the strategies are.  The evidence of each claim must be provided and the essay must provide commentary.  

My Daily Refection Entry

Today in class we read an article about social media narcissistic.  In the article it explains how social media can turn nobodies into arrogant, self-centered, and a person who is obsessive with their self and physical appearance. In my opinion I believe that social media has had good and bad out-turns.  The good is that it brings us together but once we get together we become more separate because of social media.  If social media or the internet wasn’t ever as inventive as it is today then the world would be a more better and more togetherness as a whole.

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Today in class we read an essay call Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr.  It explains how the internet is used to avoid reading and searching for what is needed the traditional way.  In the essay he uses different types of rhetorical devices, such as figurative language.  One figurative language that he uses is personification.  Like in this sentence, “The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster professor and a bigger hard drive.” He was simply saying that using technology is like a book in one device that you can always just look up what you need and the answer is there in the palm of your hands without the books.

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In class today we reviewed pronoun case.  We discussed the difference between subject and object pronouns. Subject pronouns are pronouns that identify who or what is performing the action or verb. Object pronouns are objects that are affected in some way by the subject of the sentences.  We did an assignment in class to help us understand the lesson and how to apply the concept to an passage. After that we wrote a body paragraph for a a letter that we read.  We wrote a introduction paragraph yesterday.  The purpose of this is to get us ready to write a essay based on rhetoric strategies.  The writing processes takes some thinking and knowledge but it’s all effective in the long run, like when taking the writing portion of the ACT or even an EQT prompt.  

My Daily Reflection Entry

In class today we started at the beginning of class doing a four question misplaced modifier assignment.  After that we went into detail about how to write an rhetorical analysis.  In a rhetorical analysis it consists of an introduction paragraph.  In the introduction paragraph it consists of a attention getter, a short summary of what’s happening in the text, and state your thesis statement. We were taught that in a thesis sentences that it consists of the author name, plus an adjective, the rhetoric strategies, a strong verb, and the function meaning what the rhetoric does to the piece of work.  The concept is not hard to understand but when you have to apply it, it takes a lot of thinking and learning to actually get the understanding of what it’s actually asking you to do. 

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Today in class we were taught the Joliffe’s Rhetorical Analysis Framework. It’s a basic diagram of what happens in a rhetorical analysis paper.  Most of the devices that are in are some of the most common devices like ethos, pathos, logos, and tone.  This helps with what’s some facts, how the analysis sounds, and how it appeals to the readers emotions. So basically in a rhetorical analysis, it consists of a rhetorical situation, the appeals, and the surface features, such as diction, syntax, imagery, and figurative language.

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Today in class we presented our “What’s in the Bag?” project.  From my experience on presenting today I feel as if I flopped because I forgot the definition to one of my words but knew why I choose the the item.  It was a default thing to do when half  of the class is laughing at you and can’t help you out.  But next I know to really study the vocabulary words so my understanding instead of trying to memorize the actual definition.

My Daily Reflection Entry

In class today we reviewed and discussed how to write a rhetorical analysis and how to properly find the information needed.  We were taught a way to help us write the paper by using SOAPSTone.  I found this to be helpful when u don’t know what’s really going on.  Writing a rhetorical analysis doesn’t mean you talk about the prompt given, you talk about how the author uses the rhetorical analysis.