Reflection on Description and Definition

Having a vivid description can make your writing more persuasive. It sometimes hard for me to create vivid description because I admit that I don't have a big imagination but there's still that imagination remaining in my brain. If you're making unrealistic things come alive, you're actually asking your audience to see something you see or hear something you hear. I think that's an important thing to learn in order to persuade your audience.

             I didn't know that "defining a term is the first step in a debate or disagreement." That phrase reeled me in. I guess it means that you have to define a word precisely or else someone will be responding you by a disagreement.

That's my goal for this year!

I had no idea what rhetoric meant until I read pages 1-6.  Rhetoric is just like manipulating someone to do make a specific action. It's just like my favorite show, Big Brother. It's a reality game where you have to manipulate someone in order for you not to get evicted. I really love that show because.... Oh, sorry for my digression...Anyway, to me the definition of rhetoric is to persuade someone by appealing to ethos, logos, and pathos and also by interacting with the subject, writer, and the audience. It would be great if you can persuade your audience by using all the appeals. That’s my goal for this year!

I hope I dont get a 3....

It was fun reading all the samples essays because I get to see their technique and their writing skills. Although I didn’t really like giving scores to their essay because it felt like I have no right to tell them what to do. So we have to read 4 essays, and some of them were kind of hard to read because I was unable to read their writing. I don’t want to be rude or something but some of the writings are a little sloppy (My writing is sloppy too) and that made me feel lost. Their examples were good and one of the essays had a good choice of words. To be honest, that made me anxious. I have to admit that I don’t have a good diction but I hope I will learn how to. After hearing their scores, I got really scared because I think I’m going to get a 4 or a 3. I hope I don’t.

I Know I Can Do Better and I Know I Will Learn...

* I wanted to blog about my in-class essay experience yesterday but my Internet connection wasn't working so I just wrote the things I'm going to say and type it during lunch in the library.


   I just wrote an in-class essay! That's a big accomplisment for me becuase I never wrote an essay during class before. That was actually my first in-class essay that I wrote and I think I did ok.  I wrote about my weakness and strength about my writing and I wasn’t afraid to admit them. It felt good writing that essay because it represents me. I don’t like using fancy words AT ALL. I knew that we were going to write an in-class essay because I asked someone I know from AP English and I notice that we haven’t had any weekly essay yet. So I went to the library and I started looking for some tips on how to write an in-class essay and it helped me a lot!(I think…) I wanted to write more in my essay but I didn’t have enough time to add more. I know I can do better and I know I will learn how to become the writer I want to be.