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Rhetoric 101 isn't just any ordinary class but one of the more unique class that many students take at their first year of college. Mr. Klein especially makes the class what everyone one calls rhetoric an awesome class. Mr. Klein is a well respected professor that takes learning to the next level with his unique way of teaching unlike many other college professors do. His way of teaching makes everyone interact with any topic we talk about in class and makes everything clear and simple. Many students online rate Mr. Klein an excellent professor according to ratemyprofessor. WIth his simplicity of teaching I learned many new things such as showing more sensory information into my essays and using MLA but most importantly how to make writing skills better and more juicy. On great thing that I learned in Mr. Klein's class was on how to make my essays better by using the five senses in them. The five senses consisted of see, touch, hear, smell and feel. With some classroom …show more content…

The ways my highschool teachers explained it was by boring definitions and just went on and about. Not really showing examples and making everyone understand it clearly. Mr. Klein on the other hand taught it in a way where learning was actually fun. By fun I mean interesting, by letting us do an advertisement essay on whatever topic we wanted to go. Since I had rhetoric at 11am which is close to lunchtime, I decided to do my essay on a Subway since it was my favorite food place and put my knowledge that Mr. Klein taught me about ethos, pathos and logos to the test. With our classroom discussions he explained thoroughly and got us involved with a little game quiz on what would be the ethos, pathos and logos on the ads he would play. Everyone got involved and we all learned in a enjoyable and entertaining way at the same

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