Research Paper Rhetorical Analysis

Writing this research paper, in my opinion, was extremely exhausting, but at the same, it was rewarding. I believe that when a teacher is looking for a student to fully participate in their paper, they should allow the student to pick a topic dear to them. In this case, we were given the challenge to find a topic that hits home to us and thus made most of us more passionate about writing this paper.  I appreciated the idea of taking our time to develop one paper, instead of shooting out multiple undeveloped papers, much like other classes I hear about. This is a good idea because instead of making constant mistakes, we are able to slowly build a final project that could be some of our best writing. With splitting up the paper's parts, we are able to firmly focus on perfecting a certain area, such as the audience and proposal. I, for one, believed I benefited by focusing on the audience and proposal. Before I started cramming out my paper, I had too many ideas on my topic being thrown out, if I had left all those details in, you would be reading a 30 page mess. With developing my proposal and audience, I was able to cut down my argument, and let it hit my audience strong. With a trip to library we learned to research effectively. Then, by being told to attend Writing Services we were shown that there is help if we need it. Constant reading of They Say, I Say helped us remember the simple, yet hugely effective, aspects that all papers need to contain. Overall, I'd like to think we were given a strong road to follow in order to help us write a perfect rhetorical essay.

I believe we should have had more in-class essays so that we, as students, can better understand what our teacher looks for in style. Yes, we've been told we need fix certain things, but we've see that mostly once. If we had more feedback on minor assignments, I think our papers would improve because of those critiques, we'd be able to keep them in the back of our minds because of decency and repetiveness. So by the time the paper rolls around, we are able to be a little more prepared.