Chapter 2: A Week in Review

After having had two classes of English 205 I can say that I enjoy this class and look forward to all that we will be doing. Already I have learned what a rhetorical analysis is, and have learned more about writing techniques such as purpose, audience and genre. Although I already knew the basics of these techniques it was nice to have a refresher before we really started getting into writing papers for class.It was also a good section to read because it will really help when we start writing our rhetorical analysis paper. It not only tells you that you need to find the authors message and see if it's creditable but it also shows you how to do it, and how you should structure it when you write. I think that it was smart how they did each major component in a different chapter so that they could break it down and really go in depth. Because I want to be a writer this was a good section on rhetorical situations to read because I need to apply most of it, if not all of it. The audience section made me really think about how you can't just write things however you interpret it personally, but you have to consider the fact that everybody thinks differently. You need to be conscious of that fact and not write so that you  understand it,  because they might not interpret the same way as you do, so you write so that others will understand what you are trying to convey. I like how even though I had basic knowledge about what we had to read I was still able to learn something new, which is the great thing about learning is you can never learn everything and are always learning something new.