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Rhetorical Analysis Of My Academic Integrity Workshop By Martin Luther King

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When I read my previous papers, my first thoughts are always wondering how I improved. Ow that I’ve completed English 1302.710, I expected a change in my writing skills. After all, I did write a lot, especially in a type of writing that I wasn’t comfortable: Rhetoric. For the class, I had to learn to persuade my audience, do research, develop personal values, and use different kinds of expression in my writing. Even though I was just learning, I have met the objective of the course and what it teaches.
One of the first assignments that I written was my “Academic Integrity Workshop”, which how it was organized was laughable. I listed each of the answers I wrote to the question number they went to. For example, I wrote “1. Academic integrity …show more content…

was strongest to use. To prove my point, I had to use Aristotle’s rhetorical appeals as my reason why. The paper met the page requirement with four pages. The paragraphs were short and frequent but it was organized well with examples of the rhetorical appeals being used and quotes from his works. Nor did I have my thesis statement in the introduction, but my introduction explained in detail what the paper was about. “Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most convincing civil rights activists recorded in history; but what made his speeches so successful to the public?” (Gibson). Though there was a lot for me to learn back then, it met the …show more content…

In three to four pages, I had to discuss about media’s representation of one gender and how it could affect younger audiences. To prove our claim, we had to choose one type of stereo type in three types of media. I choose female character’s looks in videogames, comic books, and animation. I explained that “[Children] look up to the media’s stories for knowledge and entertainment” and how “creators often seem to worry that their [character’s] appearance isn’t feminine enough”. With my options and examples that I used from left to right, I was able to write a rhetorical paper in three pages. The paragraphs were larger and more organized than before and I felt that I wrote with an idea of what I was trying to

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