Nicholas Warlin

WRTG 1010

April 22, 2019

Stephanie Maenhardt

 After taking our course, how do the concepts "writing" and "rhetoric" change in meaning

from what you used to know. In other words, what did you think "writing and rhetoric"

meant before and what do they mean now?

I honestly thought that writing was pretty much everything that had to do with putting words

down on a page. I didn’t consider Facebook posts or anything other than old fashion writing and

drafting to be actual “writing”. I now realize that everything I read has some sort of writing and

rhetoric to it. I notice the strategies that people use in their Facebook or Twitter posts to make me

feel some sort of emotion, and I’m always looking for somebody’s ethos, as well as if they have

established logic and statistics in their writing. I now notice that good writing needs to have

some sort of rhetoric in it, and that’s what I’m looking for.

 Explain how you used these concepts "writing and rhetoric" in your work in ENGL

1010? Use specific examples from the three assignments you have included in your

ePortfolio.

I used the concepts as kind of a blueprint on how I wanted to write my papers. First, I would look

at the rubric for the assignment, and what was expected of me. I would then think of a topic that

fit that rubric from my life and kept some part of what I wanted to write about as a part of each

one of my papers. My Track it Back essay was based around Pepsi Max, a drink which I dearly

love, and I was fascinated where that took me. I tried to look at each appeal from Aristotle’s
appeals and think of an example from my life. Pathos I tried to think of a story that would

primarily make people feel happiness or sadness from my experience. I wanted people to realize

that I love Pepsi Max, and that it helps me get through my day of dealing with Draper

housewives. I wanted people to know that I am grieved by the opioid epidemic, and that I see the

person abusing a substance as a normal person and I want them to recover.

 Explain how you have attempted to use these two concepts in another setting. What

strategies did you use as a writer accomplish this task in that setting?”

I am taking Writing 1020 alongside this class, which is Public Speaking. I’ve noticed that the

same three appeals are just as important in what you are speaking out loud as when you are

writing it on a paper. It’s even more difficult to use these appeals in a speech, because you only

have 5 minutes to fit everything in, as opposed to 1000 words that you have time to delicately

craft. I try to find a subject that I want to write about, and that’s how I define writing. I then go

through my speech and add statistics for logos, I add my personal experience working in a

pharmacy for my ethos, and I try to find stories either from one of my patients (I don’t identify

them of course), or I try to find a story with emotion from my life or somebody around me.