I’m really sad this class is coming to an end. I’ve really enjoyed this class, in large part due to my wonderful classmates and teacher. Through this course I think I’ve really grown as a reader, writer, speaker, and community member. I have always enjoyed analysing writing, but I’ve never worked on analysing writing for…

We’ve finally come to the end of the class. We are very nearly finished with this academic adventure. Do I know more about the meaning of life? Eh, probably not. Am I motivated to solve the world’s injustices using my words as a super power to unlock the minds and hearts of every leader in…

1.In this class, I think I have grown the most as a writer. It has always been hard for me to organize my thoughts and make sense of them. I usually have the ideas and I understand the concepts. I know how to apply them and everything but my brain is working at such a…

Since I had never taken a course in Rhetoric before, I’d like to think I’ve grown a lot as a reader, writer, and community member. I am much more aware of any rhetorical tools that secretly thread their way through articles, social media, and daily conversations. This awareness really supports my critical thinking skills, because…

I think I’ve grown in many ways because of this class. As a writer, I think I’m less lazy, as awful as that sounds. I used to just put down what I needed to on paper to get the job done, and if it did, the feedback was always something like “nice work,” “good job…

As a reader, I feel more comfortable reading academic texts and other forms of nonfiction. I also feel more capable identifying potential biases in what I read. I believe that my writing has grown more focused instead of the jumble of ideas it used to be. I have improved at writing with a clear idea…

Something that has stuck with me since the first time we read it is the concept from chapter one of Thank You for Arguing, in which author Jay Hendrichs tried to live one average day without rhetoric, which he found to be impossible. I was not very aware of the rhetoric in my own life…

I have grown greatly over the course of this semester. I have grown as a person and as a writer. When the semester started, I don’t think I was the worst writer, but I definitely wasn’t a good speaker. I was a shy speaker who was very unconfident in what I was saying. I wasn’t…

Walking into Rhetoric, I thought I had predicted what was expected of me for the semester. I had heard my friends discussing the speeches they were preparing and essays they were writing for their rhetoric courses and remembered studying pathos, ethos, and logos my freshman year of high. I was surprised, and slightly nervous when I discovered our assignments were not your typical Rhetoric…

I really enjoyed having all the different mediums and outlets to practice our skills and abilities as readers, writers, and speakers. I enjoyed the variety in assignments we had to do and felt like even though we did have quite a few of them, they didn’t feel repetitive or tedious. I think working with the…