Dylan Moina
May 5, 2024
In this course, I achieved the five most important learning outcomes which are linguistic standards, writing, and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations, developing strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing, and practicing key rhetorical terms and strategies. Finally, understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
Linguistic standards can empower and oppress language users by many forms such as language being a tool of voice. Voice allows people to speak out on something that is wrong or shine a light on a problem in society. Language can also be oppressed by social exclusion, discrimination, and limitations in opportunities. As I wrote, ”In the video, “Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent”(2016), author Safwat Saleem, an animator and a voice actor that gives life to his characters, asserts that you should use your voice to destroy the idea “normal” because having an accent is anomalous which can affect the person’s self esteem. Lastly, he declares that we should end the idea of “normal”. Saleem appears to persuade people to challenge and break away from this narrative of “normal”. Saleem Author gives us two options of ignoring the problem or using our own voices to go against it in order to change society’s norms.”
I have read many genres like poems, short stories, essays, oral history, videos, and many more. Using rhetorical situations has helped me explore and analyze the genre at a deep level and I was able to understand what the author wanted to address. For homework, I had to do a Rhetorical Situation Worksheet of “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Amy Tan. I wrote about the author, context, text, audience, purpose, argument, evidence, and rhetorical strategies. Each of these terms help me understand what the author is trying to tell the readers. One example of my Rhetorical Situation Worksheet about “Mother Tongue” purpose, ” The Author is trying to educate the readers of ‘broken’’ English shouldn’t be looked down upon because it doesn’t show what the person’s whole language ability is.” I develop new strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing. When reading I think about the Rhetorical Situation Worksheet and how I can use that to help me understand the author and the readings better. Drafting has improved all my projects because of the feedback I get from my professor, peers, and myself from going over it. Collaborating was a huge help for my projects because I get different viewpoints and ideas that normally one person can’t give you. With these strategies, I can edit and revise my work with more confidence. The Research Essay project helped me recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies in writing situations. I fully understand rhetorical terms and how I can find them and understand what the author’s argument is. Digital technologies have put my work out where my professor can see it and my peers can also read it. Digital technologies have put my work to anybody who wants to read my work. Having a Digital Portfolio brings a range of audiences who are interested in reading about a certain topic that I wrote.
In conclusion, these five were the most important to me because they showed how much I learned and showed growth over time. After writing this essay I achieved many things not just writing but the outside world. Writing and voice creates an impact on society with the help of digital technologies.
Work Cited
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xc3Am9hvVnQR8War-dbtBAMzF_TxJCFKl94homipGvk/edit?usp=sharing
