college writing 101 blog

At the end of each semester, i like to look back and think about what i did well and what i need to work on. this semester was not my semester. i started strong, but i gradually fell off toward the end. this is not to say i didn't do well, i still managed to finish with As in most classes and thoroughly leaned my course material. but despite this, i felt i could've done much better. the work i put forward this semester was regrettably not my best effort. in the beginning, it was. but toward the end of the year, a combination of stress, overworking myself, and a series of personal issues left me exhausted. this is what i attribute to my fall. this semester was easily the worst time of my life by far, and it definitely showed in my motivation, attitude, and work. Now that this semester is over, i feel i need to take my time off to work on myself and come into second semester with at least support groups in place to insure i don't slip again. Despite not doing as well as i wou

Let me start off by saying how much i despised writing before this class. My past teachers always taught me to write using a super specific formula and it left me feeling like i didn't have a voice in my writing. In this class, i feel like i started to "find my voice" in my writing. I think this came about from learning about rhetoricity. i remember when we first were introduced to the concept of rhetoricity we watched a weird video and soul stared. i vividly remember thinking to myself "what the hell is going on". but eventually i think i got what it was. to me, rhetoricity was about how we communicate, that everything we do from body language, words, even just presents, sends a message. I think my best example of how i understood this is in my rhetoricity paper i wrote, which is linked here  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBqKEzTFQKOV0DO7mkjgTVDm_XaYwYsZSaBZUlW-_K4/edit . Another good example that show my comprehension of rhetorical knowledge would prob