How was the overall process of ‘Close Reading and Rhetorical Analysis’? How was writing about it?
Did you enjoy the class activities? What was your favorite part?
Did the assignment and activities help you see “writers’ moves” in new ways? How? What are some ways you will be more intentional with regard to purpose and audience in your own writing?
What was challenging?
Would you recommend this assignment?
The overall process was confusing at first because I didn't get the connection between the articles and our essay prompt tis the end. When we first were given the assignment I had never heard of "rhetorical analysis", now I have better understanding of it. It was easier to understand when we are given the prompt of writing the letter instead of reading articles such as the difficulty paper. That part confused me the most when I was annotating it.
I liked the class activities because we would talk about the articles we just read at home with our groups and their feedback helped a lot because I missed some of the key concepts Young or Anzaldua made.The eyed talks were also a good visual of language and slang, because it was hard reading Young's writing without saying it out loud. My favorite class activity would have to be the class discussions. Those are what gave me the ideas for my essay and made me think deeper about the meaning of Young's writing.
A challenge was annotating Young and Anzaldua's articles because they both had different dialects. I ended up choosing Young's article because I found it more interesting when I learned he was replying to Fish within his article. I didn't catch that at first so I had to go back and read it over. The back and forth thoughts between Young and Fish is one of Young's "moves". I also think it was intensional because I think his audience was people who agreed with Fish, and he was trying the persuade them to his views and how Fish is obviously wrong. I think I can work on persuading my reader more often by trying to contradict someone else thoughts to make mine look superior.
I would recommend this assignment because it really did teach me what rhetorical analysis was and how to incorporate your annotations into writing your process.
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