Blog Week 12B

Before starting this class, I had never even heard the word rhetoric, let alone knew how to use them. I've always considered myself a halfway decent writer, but that doesn't mean I didn't pick up a few tricks from this class. The first one was the depth that went into Cause and Effect. This helped me see just how important this tool could be, and how to effectively use it. The Cause and Effect essay we did is probably the one that challenged me most, but working through it helped me see how it could be used to distinguish between two things, and to to relay my observations to someone else through the use of writing. Another tool that I had never really used before was Classification and Division. Though I had seen it used before, it had never dawned on me how easy it was to inform the audience while using this tool. It really helps me focus on areas of research, and what needed to be emphasized in my writing. For these reasons, Cause and Effect as well as Classification and Division would have to be the tools that have helped me expand my writing skills the most, and to get a deeper understanding of what a rhetoric tool truly meant.