Rhetorical Writing

In my previous blog posts, as well as the midterm critical self-assessment I answered questions and talked a lot about what I plan to change in my writing through college. I mentioned a few things that mainly focused on and surrounded the wide variety of different types of writing encountered at college and adapting to them.

One thing I would like to add to expand upon this is that I would also like to incorporate different aspects from each type of writing to different writing styles. This past week on Wednesday and Thursday I had a twelve page midterm paper to write for a business class. To answer the five essay questions it was a constant battle of including as much information as possible to make effective arguments, without making the paper end up being any longer than it really was. Through all these arguments, I realized just recently after thinking about it that many of them were logos and ethos based.

After this, I got to thinking that writing is not as class/type differentiated as I thought. Adding to my goals for college writing I believe I will now also work on implementing things that I learn from all my writing into my future writing assignments. The things I learned about arguments from WRIT1122 and the letters to the editor could have proved quite useful in my business midterm if I analyzed my arguments in that fashion. This is something I definitely plan to work toward and taking advantage of everything I know about writing in all my writing assignments and subjects.