Readings So Far

So far in class we've read and learned a lot of stuff from our text book and from our in class discussions. From Mindful Writing, we've learned some helpful steps to becoming a better writer, such as planning, practicing, revising, and reflecting. They will help you recognize strengths and weaknesses in your writing and help you become better. Another thing the textbook has talked about is setting goals for your writing. It says to set specific goals,and to set self-regulating goals. This is helpful when you're writing because it lets you work on more small things to accomplish one big thing rather than trying to go after something huge all at once. After that it went it to detail on thinking rhetorically and using rhetoric in your writing. It covered how it can help you entertain more audiences and how to even identify those audiences before you start writing.

In class we've talked a lot about ethos, pathos, and logos. We then used those three tools to analyze The Family: A Proclamation to the World and to decide how the writers of that document decided to appeal to all audiences and what tools they used to try and elicit a response from the most possible people. Everything from the topics they covered to the words they used to describe the topics was picked specifically to try and appeal to the most possible people, from any faith and any background. They even adjusted the tone of the paper when they got to more serious or stern parts like when they called on citizens and government leaders to help promote the family as the central unit of society.