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Tarango III

Rodrigo Tarango III

ENGL-1301-102

Dr Sharity Nelson

11/20/2023

My reflection upon learning about peer

reviews and rhetorical appeals

In the process of me learning about peer reviewed articles and rhetorical situations by
examining and presenting how a peer reviewed article by Allen, Nicholas D. C. revolving around
how words such as woke along with other words such as cancel are harmed by misappropriation
along with the hope of giving those harmed a way to defend themselves using the black twitter
community as the prime example incorporates rhetorical appeals effectively to achieve their
argument, my arsenal of skills increased as a result. The addition to my arsenal of skills is the
capabilities to scrutinize the bodies of text to find its key motives, elements.
A result of going over peer reviewed journal articles and rhetorical situations I’m now
able to use rhetorical analysis in the future for classes like English 1302, sociology and even
beyond college such as socializing to inspect academic essays and other bodies of text to find its
key motives, and elements, like that I can analyze people’s character. Motivations being why it is
that the text was written, is it to persuade someone to agree with you Is it to introduce an idea or
issue objectively. In a similar vein what is it that motivates people’s actions and words, are they
prideful, secretive, expressive. Elements standing for key words or evidence like charts,
testimonies. An Element for character being the way they talk and present themselves basically
underling context. One example being a factual essay about an illness that’s easily passible if
precautions are not taken with rates of those suffering who didn’t take precautions vs those who
do. Let’s set a seen for the charter example. There are 3 friends, all three have been friends for
years, but lately two of the friends noticed the third one always seems to be using blunt words
never understanding boundaries causing them to realize their friend is very rude.
I continued to build upon my knowledge of drafting and revision with the simple things,
practice, almost every essay I work on has one thing in common I just keep practicing the basics
over and over. I read both my essay and article for grammatical errors, and inspiration. Anytime I
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came across an error It went away with the dodos, following that I reworked that section to work
correctly with everything else. When reading the article even after I got the basics I wanted to
see if I could stumble upon something I may have missed or in hopes of having a eureka
moment. When it comes to the basics of writing they come in handy in many occasions Such as
creating stories, music, speeches, and debates. Revision mixed with brainstorming is a powerful
duo when it comes to making beats, for example when it comes to sound effects and placements
of instruments at first, they may sound amazing or terrible but as one continues to test different
placements and sounds suddenly one has a noise pleasant to the ears. Authors just like musicians
would be elevating themselves by using basic writing tools such as prewriting. Prewriting allows
the author to get an idea where they want to take the story.
Discussing with my instructor gave me important critiques that were required to make as
good of a grade as possible. One thing that that was brought to my attention by my instructor was
my failure to create my own title for my essay draft which led me to make my own title. My
professor also instructed me to tidy up my introduction by connecting my thesis properly to the
rhetorical situation in the draft. As result I traced my steps back and implemented how rhetorical
appeals were used properly to support the author’s argument. When In conference with my
professor she helped me discover the proper category of the article for my essay draft allowing
me to properly finish my citing.
By getting feedback from my fellow peers, I was able to correct flaws within my draft. As
a result of my peer, I corrected grammar errors that they mentioned by rewording the sentences
and changing starting words.
By proofreading the rhetorical analysis essay, it helped me discover errors in tenses, as well as
failing to connect certain pieces of information as well as using first person terms in the essay.
After realizing I shouldn’t have first person expressions I went back and corrected the tenses.
The most challenging section part for me was properly explaining the rhetorical situations. To
overcome the challenge, I asked multiple peers to revise certain sections that I was struggling
with to make sure I was gaining a proper understanding as well as illustrating the rhetorical
situations just as good. With this new understanding of rhetorical situations, I’m now prepared
for future writing assignments that require me to determined wheatear or not using logic,
emotion, and credibility. Whether or not it’s professional or unprofessional with key words and
evidence.
The least challenging part for me was understanding what the article was arguing for. The reason
is due to the abstract and other key sections where the author stated their stance and reason for
writing the article.