Letter to the editor, a poor argument

In the WRIT 1122 class we were assigned to do a series of letters to the editor as informal assignments to the class. We were to pick one and revise it to construct a good well thought out and well written argument.

In my last blog post I mentioned how two aspects of the course had helped me improve my writing this quarter. I also talked about how they both go hand in hand for making a successful argument in writing and that if one aspect were to fail, it makes the final outcome ineffective at best. I believe this is exactly what happened with my letter to the editor. I think my letter to the editor was written well with precise word choice to get my points across and still fit within the 200 word limit, and also used the various rhetorical appeals to pathos, logos, and ethos, or at least a lot better than it would have been at the beginning of the quarter. This however was not very relevant at all though because my argument itself was flawed. I had originally tried to piece together an argument against something in an article that really was quite unfounded and just did not make much sense at all. Since that was the letter I had initially written I kept trying to improve on that, however I found I was always stuck and confused as to where I was going with the argument. This is a definite example of where my writing was flawed in that the argument founding the entire work was flawed.