Visit three fellow students’ blogs, adding comments on at least one entry per student. For your own entry this week, compare and contrast the rhetorical styles of your peers.

For this blog post, we had to look into our peer’s blogs and figure out their style of writing when it comes to rhetorical analysis’. After reading through multiple blogs, I’ve discovered there are some things I can improve when it comes to analyzing a rhetorical situation. This includes getting right to the point and including fewer details and how I should be trying to connect all of the elements of a song/movie/article/etc., together. 

One thing that really stuck out to me when reading Erica’s rhetorical post is the amount of evidence she supplied while remaining clear and concise. Along with her main points followed solid evidence in an orderly, structured way. I found in some of the other posts that people would include too little or too many details with their main points. This makes it hard to follow along when reading because you can tell that some pieces would fit better in other places.

Something prevalent in every post I read is the amount of visualization students are using. I feel like as I read I am gathering bits and pieces to the music videos people are analyzing; some I’ve never even seen before. I think that everyone has a great handle on using broader vocabulary to describe things and incorporating this new vocabulary to grab the attention of the audience to establish credibility in an argument. If you paint an argument in a light where your side looks better, people are likely to believe what you have to say. 

Lastly, I think something I’ve noticed getting better and better is grammar and spelling! At the beginning of the semester, you could tell some student’s writing looked all over the place and not put together. The structure of these student’s writing has improved not only in the blog posts but on paper too. I think these blogs help get the writing side of the brain working, whether that be the left or the right, and helps us get comfortable with the idea of writing in general.

I want to conclude this blog post by saying that I really enjoyed this activity. Being able to go through and read my peer’s blogs and their rhetorical billboard posts really helped me figure out what I was missing when doing rhetorical analysis’. Now, when I analyze the documentaries for presentation two, I will be able to add more evidence and details that I never thought to add before. I also liked being able to engage with my peers and hear their opinion as well. Constructive criticism is crucial if you want to keep getting better in the writing world.