Rhetorical Analysis Essay And The Wicked Problems Research Group Project

Emily Evans Dr. Kelley English 1000 16 April 2024 Learning Narrative During this semester in English 1000, I have worked a lot on expanding my writing skills and learning how to do research. There have been two big projects that I have worked on, my Rhetorical Analysis essay and the Wicked Problems research group project. Through these projects, I have learned many skills that I can apply to other aspects of my education. In my Rhetorical Analysis essay, I went into the essay honestly unsure of what I was going to write about. I knew what TED Talk interested me, but beyond that I did not know what I wanted to say about the talk specifically. Once I figured out a bit more about the four rhetorical appeals, I started going back through the talk

I probably spent the most time working on the Wicked Problems project. From the very beginning, I did not like this project because it was a randomly assigned group project. Never in my life have I had a group project that went smoothly, and this one was no exception. My group took multiple class periods to even come up with a topic, and every time we decided on a topic and I would start researching, they would come into the next class and decide to change the topic to something different. There was very little communication outside of class, and we rushed to submit stages of the assignment at the last minute because some people had not completed their part. When we had to do the annotated bibliographies, I had to delete full bibliographies for about 3 different sources because the topic got changed days before the due date. We had all agreed to have all four of the sources completed Saturday to submit on Sunday, and I stayed up very late on Saturday night to make sure my work was done. However, the rest of the group did not even finish until late Sunday night, which was quite

However, when they submitted the final submission, I noticed that two of the three other people had used the same article that I did. They never even checked to see if they were using a different one, which was frustrating because I was the first one to submit mine, and they had access to all of my sources and writing on the group Canvas page. For the remix assignment, I ended up working in the same group because I did not want to do the entire thing by myself, despite feeling mostly on my own with the original project. I ended up only being able to meet up with everyone one time right before it was due, and a couple other times with just one other person. They wrote some of the writing on the canvas graphic, but I ended up doing most of the formatting and design for the graphics. This was probably the only part of the project we got finished ahead of time, and that is only because I had to pressure them several times to meet up to finish it. Despite all of my issues with both phases of this project, I learned a lot about how to research