Grace Geier
Professor Smith
ENGWR 300
11 December 2024
Evolution of Grace
Over the course of the last 16 weeks, I have learned a lot. Not just about writing techniques or grammar. I got to learn a little bit about myself and my ability to write. I always felt as though English was not my strong suit. Sure, certain aspects may be. Although topics like argumentative or opinionated pieces, I quite enjoy. Throughout these 16 weeks I have demonstrated composing clear and effective writing that applies to a focused topic, analyzing and evaluating research material from multiple sources, and analyzing style, organization, and rhetorical structures.
First, I demonstrated clear and effective writing skills with the use of rhetorical tools to engage with a specific audience. I did this with the use of comparing social media flatforms to wearing prescription glasses. In my writing of The Glasses of Deception, “Social media is like wearing the wrong pair of prescription glasses. Wearing these glasses for too long causes your vision, without them, to be blurry, and then can lead to headaches or dizziness.” (Geier 1) I start off my writing using the rhetorical tool, simile, to create the foundation of my argument that social media is bad. This in turn engages the audience with such a bold statement that glasses and social media are the same. It intrigues the reader to find out the reasons for why social media and glasses are the same.
Secondly, throughout this course I have evaluated research material from multiple sources. To do this I check for credibility and authority of these sources. For example, from my Op-Ed, The Glasses of Deception the sources I used were from respected colleges and some written and quoted actual professors, Like Dr. Deborah Glasofer from Colombia the mailman school of public health. (Geier 2) As well, throughout all my writings I have summarized and directly quoted sources I used in my writing. “The documentary also stated that in 2014 most U.S. prisons took away in-person visits. Logos is used with statistic facts about the jail or other factors about father and their daughters separation and the effects of the program throughout the documentary with text written on the screen and verbally by speakers.” (Geier 3) This quote from my writing Daughters, paraphrasing what the documentary had stated, shows my use of not just quoting directly but paraphrasing and applying it to my writing and my own thoughts.
Third, I analyzed style, organization and rhetorical structures over this semester in my writing. Not all drafts are perfect the first time of writing them. With feedback from others and time to reread and elaborate or expand on the draft, mistakes and organizational mistakes can be found and fixed. For example, in my first writing assignment, Not Just a Restaurant, I made a few organizational structure mistakes that I demonstrate fixing in my project revision. In the writing I jumped from talking about operations within the restaurant to outside the restaurant and then back to operations within. Which organizationally was a mistake and broke the flow of the essay and points I was trying to make. I quote in my project revisions, “So, I moved the paragraph talking about outside the restaurant to the last body paragraph right before the conclusion. I also broke the first body paragraph in half, then added the great service paragraph to that first half of the body paragraph. By doing this it made the points made in each paragraph flow a lot nicer and to me made it more understandable about the disclosure community in the restaurant.” (Geier 1) This shows my understanding of identifying logical errors in arguments and bias through writing. As well, my understanding of organizational structure.
This course over the last 16 weeks as been very knowledgeable not just about writing but communities, world issues, and people’s perspectives on other issues and writing that have been very intriguing and eye opening. I feel I have evolved a lot from these reasons over the last 16 weeks. I learned a lot of new things. I didn’t think I would like my joy for righting opinionated pieces and getting creative with it.
Work Cited
Geier, Grace, Daughters October 11, 2024
Geier, Grace, Not Just a Restaurant, September 18, 2024
Geier, Grace, Substantial revisions Project 1 December 2, 2024
Geier, Grace, The Glasses of Deception November 25, 2024
List of “A” work:
Submit all my smaller writing assignments, discussion boards-on time and participate in all peer reviews.
Project 1 Discourse Community
Project 2 Rhetorical Analysis
Project 3 Op-ed all parts A-D completed and submitted
Project 4 Self-Assessment Essay
Submit 1 Revised project: Project 1
Submit Final Course Portfolio