Thursday, September 16, 2010
I wish I had read this last week.
I wish that I read chapter 6 before I started writing my Rhetorical analysis paper. Myself like probably many others made the mistake when first writing my paper of summarizing instead of rhetorically evaluating the Jill Jenson article. For me it has been awhile since I took English 103 and did rhetorical analysis. If Tess is reading this than I might suggest that next time before first drafts are due and conferences start that you assign your students to read chapter 6 earlier so that maybe they won't be so confused when writing their papers. Chapter 6 was great at giving ideas about how to think rhetorically. I really liked the example of how you use it when watching a movie. Chapter 7 is also a good chapter in that it gives you some great ideas about conducting research after we have now learned about the databases and cardcat. It is really a nice transition. Two thumbs up.
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Yea i felt the exact same way when reading the chapters, they would have been a lot more useful the first time writing the analysis.
ReplyDeleteI agree these chapters are something you should read before writing not only a analysis but any paper.
ReplyDeleteMany of you suggested that the earlier readings were boring because you had covered that information earlier and knew it already. Well, you are supposed to be familiar with rhetorical analysis by the time you get to this class. I needed to see if that were really true--and I have my answer with your first drafts.
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