Personal Reflection

The use of pathos, ethos, logos, and kairos in a writing piece can enhance the message that is being depicted through it. Adding pathos to a writing piece with give your reader an emotion connection and reaction to your piece. Ethos gives a piece more credibility while logos relies on the reader’s logic to convince them of a concept or idea. Kairos is the timing of when you state something. Each of these concepts can give support to a writing piece and help appeal to your audience.

Learn from these authors To conclude these thoughts, both Edgar Allan Poe and John Green, two experienced writers, are able to use different types of conflict to develop their characters in a realistic

This simile makes Lamott feel more relatable to the reader because this is a feeling that most inexperienced and discouraged writers go through. Saying things like “feel despair and worry settle on my chest like an x-ray apron” only connects the reader to Lamott even more (Lamott 469). Once the reader becomes engaged and forms a connection with what the writer is saying and feeling, continuing to read the essay is easy. At this point the reader wants to know what can be done to shake the feelings of “despair and worry” when it comes to

In expositions, writers usually tend to focus on certain techniques to not only enhance their writing, but also make their audience believe in whatever they are writing. These age old techniques have been used for so long for one common goal, to create clear messages from their writing that the audience are able to connect with. When their is a feeling of understanding of what the writer is attempting to portray, it makes it far easier to obtain a deeper knowledge. In Hope Edelman’s essay, The Myth of Co-Parenting: How it Was Supposed to Be. How it was, she doesn’t fall short on exemplifying these certain techniques through the act of making her audience feel sympathetic.

To achieve these goals I will adopt different strategies such as I will make practice of speaking in front of my family and friends. I will also try to reach my dramatic persona because I believe that acting is not something that falls into place without a hitch for me; I ought to attempt to reach my dramatic persona. All the while, I may find a more outgoing some portion of myself that I didn't know was there, and the entire experience can wind up feeling freeing and thrilling rather than tension ridden. I will also learn the different techniques of public speaking by observing the other public speakers.

The reason that I’m taking AP Literature is because I would like to understand different style of writing and how the author tries to sway the audience with their words. Another reason that I decided to take this class is because I want to be able to write better essay and learn how to get my point across without making it harder for people to understand. I also want to make a difference in the world with my words which has a big impact on people. I want to be able to write my story of what I have been through and how it has impacted my life but has made me stronger than I was before, and that anyone get through anything if you have support from others. I also am not taking the class for college credit but it would be nice to have it.

In John D Mayer and Peter Salovey’s, “What is emotional intelligence?” emotional intelligence is described as “the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth” Mayer, J.D. (1997) “ In the best of stories, it is actually characterization that moves the story along, because a compelling character in a difficult situation creates his or her own plot." (Bernardo). Our performers understand that they need to be able to portray believable emotions in order to portray the correct emotion to the audience.

A greater knowledge of different forms of literature inspires imagination, produces empathy, and develops moral structures in our lives. Reading literature triggers creativity while broadening the mind for a greater ability to imagine. In the article “Why Community College Students Need Great Books”, J. M. Anderson stated that, “Great books open up new pathways of thought and press students to test the validity and cogency of their assumptions.” This quote relates to imagination, because it is explaining what Great books

The use of dreams and flashbacks in the novel helps create suspense and shows different sides of a character. These techniques help the audience in forming an opinion on these characters as the audience then knows why a character behaves in a certain way. The use of dialogues further strengthens the development of characters as the characters expresses themselves through the use of dialogues. Through this book Caswell has given audience various messages about life however his main message to the audience is about moving on in

In literature, juxtapositions are useful devices for writers to portray their characters in the exact way they desire. Using juxtapositions help to provide a better perspective of the characters that are being portrayed. Not only will juxtapositions help the increase depth of knowledge to the audience about the characters, but it will create a sense of surprise. It will create a spark in the story that will increase the mystery and may advance a person's interest in the story. William Shakespeare uses many techniques in his play, Romeo and Juliet, to create a better chemistry between the audience and his characters.

While reading the assigned articles, Begley and Heilbroner, I left comments in the margins as well as underlining quotes that stuck out to me that I could potentially use in my essay. Another objective that I struggled with is the idea of properly combining my ideas with the ideas of others. I understand that doing this can make your paper stronger. It can help open more doors and help you go someplace in your paper you didn’t think you could go. I feel like it was easy for me to add quotes and to explain more of what I wanted to talk about, but it was a challenge to figure out paraphrasing and summarizing the ideas of others that I could use in my unit 3 paper without

What I learned that certain events may occur and it will change your thought over something. The steps I had to take was to write a outline overview of what my essay was going to be like and think about the argument and claims I had to pick to support it and find quotes in the book that support my claims. We had to do timed essay about are theme of the essay were going to on. The way we wrote the essay was in TIED format because it would be easier to introduce the claim and back it up with evidence and finally discuss what it means. The leadership skill I used was to complete project effectively because I had to concentrate what I was writing about.

In Lamott’s writing, she animates her ideas of writing raft drafts to the readers. Lamott delivers her message very creatively by using various descriptive and poetic phrases, making her piece entertaining and impressing. She frankly talks about her struggles as a writer in order to encourage the readers to feel comfortable making their first attempts. However, because of her language style in the article, her argument becomes vague. From the reader’s point of view, the intention of this article seems to be a ‘writing guide for beginners’ rather than an argumentative essay because her writing lacks evidence and credibility.

In their Introduction to the “They Say /I Say” book, Gerald Graff and Cathy Brikenstein strongly believe that their templates will improve the reader’s writing skills. Graff and Brikenstein insist that writing is just like an activity we are used to do continuously, and if we follow certain process, we improve our writing and “help [our] writing become more original and creative.” (11) The authors also added that writers must give the opposing argument (they say) and then comes the thesis, which “should always be a response to the arguments of others.” (4) Personally, I agree with most of the points that the authors argued about.

Nowadays I am even trying to write and illustrate the graphic novel to convey my personal ideas through a story by letting the readers experience the adventures of the characters, witnessing the conflict, and understanding the sacrifice of different characters. This is one of the ways I am trying to challenge myself to make a long-lasting impact on my audience which would add in the educational experience of