ENGL101S has been a blast! When I first started this class, I was not to sure if I will like it. I liked writing, but not the long and complicated essays. But after taking this class, I believe I learned a lot from it. Throughout the course, we learned about many aspects of the English language and how to incorporate rhetoric into our work.
We discussed exigence and the different types there are, the rhetorical appeals: pathos, logos, and ethos, we wrote summaries about other writers, watched a few movies, and wrote a few essays on a health topic that we chose. I already knew the rhetorical appeals before this class, but I did not truly understand what it meant to use it into our work and that it is everywhere. I particularly liked how we realized that rhetoric does not have to be in just writing, but that it can be in movies as well. For our essays, I liked how we were able to choose a topic that we were interested in, and not just a random topic. If we were assigned a topic, I definitely wouldn't have liked to write a 10 page paper on it. For my essay, I chose ADHD because I had a personal experience with it by volunteering to help those who have it at my church. This led me to do more research on this health condition and eventually develop arguments on what treatments should be given to it.
Through this course, I was also able to improve on my peer-editing skills. Honestly before this class in high school, I did not really take peer-editing very seriously. I did not really understand how important it was for others to provide constructive criticisms. I was very independent in my writing and did not take others' comments seriously. But through this course, my eyes were opened to see how others can make great comments and help improve my paper.
Overall, this course was pretty amazing! I liked the classmates I had and the teacher was awesome! There have been long nights of procrastinating on papers, but it was a great challenge! Thanks ENGL101S!
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