My process in writing my rhetorical analysis essay was pretty straight forward. The main goal was to first identify uses of rhetorical writing and see which categories had the most or more importantly strongest examples. After deciding which rhetorical strategies i would write about, i began to craft my intro paragraph and my thesis. The thesis was a little difficult for me however. I had a general idea on what it was I wanted to write in was well as the examples I would use to support my claim. I just didn’t know how to put it on paper. So I wrote an intro paragraph, as very loosely put together thesis, and an outline for the rest of my ideas that would support the thesis once I finished it. During the consultation, I learned that I was struggling to write my thesis because I didn't fully understand the questions that i needed to answer within the essay. I went back and carefully reread the directions made sure to understand the questions and formulated a more coherent thesis statement based on what I already had. From there the process was streamlined, I simply needed to follow the examples I already had in my outline, expand on the ideas, and fully support my claims. After finishing my second draft i got ready for peer review. Those who peer edited my essay had a few common notes one of which being I still wasn't making a complete claim with respect to the question asked, and needed to revise my thesis again. I also got ideas from my own editing whether it was examples I overlooked that could make my own argument stronger or ways to make my writing style stand out more. In my final draft I didn't make any real major changes. I added what was needed to answer the question to completion and changes whatever grammatical errors and awkward phrasings were left. One of the main things I took from this was I don't dislike peer review nearly as much as I used to or thought I would going into this. Especially with the guidelines I knew what to look for in the essays and could offer much better feedback. I also don't hate rhetorical analysis essays as much as I used to, at least for this assignment. I think the main reason for that is that rather than reading speeches or persuasive essays I got to read and break down something short and comical making this a lot less strenuous and a little more fun.
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