When entering this unit my original thoughts about rhetorical choice revolved around articles scattered randomly through any sites deemed worthy by my browser (he’s not particular). I found myself very lost as many articles online seem to have a goal in mind. This may include selling a product, or persuading just for the enjoyment of persuading, and other ulterior motives leading me toward one dead end after another. The most enlightening and refreshing works I found to read is when I broke away from google searches and began to read academic articles found in the library. These articles were inherently dry but, if you allowed yourself to revel in the clinical artistry they display it comes to be powerfully engaging. They not only opened my eyes to the topics they were displaying, but to the world of academic writing.
Along with the benefit and “eye opening” nature of discovering these writings I came across an issue, which frustrated my work. While pouring through article after article attempting to find those, which spoke in relevance to my topic, I sometimes found myself losing sight of my words. A note left on one of my entries said that my sentences could be a little verbose. I recognized this while I was writing, but had trouble combating myself, as my thoughts would sometimes become a diluted mess which I had trouble packaging. The crux of this issue I would assume resided in seeing and attempting to imitate such complex and encompassing works, as well as writing about the same topic seemingly endlessly. In class we discussed that after a time your work might begin to seem boring or dull to your eye because of the frequency of your interaction with it. Which proved to be a more difficult hurdle than I had anticipated.
Audience awareness is something very difficult to evolve as we engaged in this unit. Through my website the pictures I chose, were in effect to me thinking of my audience dominantly as young educators. It is difficult to pull yourself from the normal thinking of appeasing the teacher, and maybe just trying to put together something that had facts “shining” in your text. The simple thought of having a more diverse audience, pushed me to write in a more persuasive manner. This was in effect, because I have become truly passionate about the topic of progressive education. My research is a large cause, but also my work at Anser shows me that educators adopting the view of progressive education can supply profound results even with the small pool of children I have interacted with.
Argumentation is a challenging aspect of this writing. I recognize that it is important to not just steam roll a conversation with any and everyone that supports you. When you are a tackling an issue of such magnitude, it can make you feel silly to try to speak in league with those who agree with you, and even more difficult speaking to those that contradict your perspective.
I ran into some walls, while attempting to work my way through creating this website. This being said, it has helped me to understand a great deal about what is needed in a persuasive discourse among the academic arena.
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