Reflection

My experience in English 103 with Mr. Evans has been extremely beneficial. His style of teaching is very laid back and informal which, I think makes the class more comfortable for my peers and I. My writing has definitely improved since I began his class. I have learned how to effectively use rhetoric in order to persuade my audience, how to analyze literature and images for rhetoric, how to effectively take feedback from my friends and give it with peer review, and also how to analyze sources and understand how they will be beneficial to my writing. Before this class, I didn’t’ really have a clear understanding of what rhetoric was because in my high school English class we just simply defined what it was never really using it.  Mr. Evans has given us many resources to help us with our research.  The assigned reading from our book along with the workshop in the library helped me with creating my annotated bibliography and will continue to help me on my research paper as I look for various sources to support my thesis.

I can use the information we have learned in English 103 on our upcoming Research Rhetoric Assignment but, also in other classes. For instance, in my communications class, we have an upcoming persuasive speech.  In order to persuade my audience to support my opinion I will be using many different rhetorical strategies and devices. For example, I will be establishing my ethos by using credible information from experts and logos by finding accurate statistics and data on the topic. These are only two examples of how I will use my recently learned information but I am certain it will be valuable in various other situations. The information I learned in Mr. Evans English 103 classes will always be useful to me. I challenge all my teachers to make the information taught relevant in some how to the rest of my life and Mr. Evans has meet that challenge.