Wow, well this week I learned a lot about rhetoric. I have a friend who studied quite a bit of rhetoric and she never told me it’ll be so different, it’s like a whole new world opened up. I always wrote essays with a flair for the dramatic; kind of quirky and sometimes didn’t really make sense. It’s probably because of my poetry background. This unit, in short, gave me a whole new outlook to the world of writing and reading. I learned rhetorical strategies such as Anaphora, Syllogism, and Antithesis. I also learned how to analyze diction and syntax to decode what sort of mood or tone an author or writer is trying to set. The Socratic dialogue was an amazing piece of work; even though I don’t believe in the argument; I was impressed at how he used rhetorical strategies to make it. I’m really new to all this; and I hope this fact won’t set me back, I basically have two months to be proficient at this; I’m really counting on this course to help me; as well as my instructor. So far, she’s been a big help in answering my questions and giving me hints in how to make my work better. Some of the rhetorical methods in developing ideas are amazing. For example; I found that the use of syllogism in the sense of inductive and deductive reasoning is useful in proving an argument that probably is new and unconventional. My grade on my dialogue was a hundred; so I guess I understand the concepts and how to apply them. I still think I need more practice though; which the subsequent units should remedy.
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