When I first read the prompt I felt a little intimidated. We were asked to summarize the article and talk about if we agreed or not, and why we chose this side. When asked to write this Diagnostic essay, I wasn't really sure what it meant. After reading the prompt for the second and third time, I started to find that I agreed with the article. I then explained why I agreed, using some examples in my own life, and general knowledge. I knew the writing was important, simply for the fact that I had to prove I had the ability to stay in this course. I knew my audience would only be my instructor, which had most likely read the article, and had an opinion on the topic also. I wasn't sure what she knew about the topic, so I tried to use general information that was easy for many to see. This also changing how I reviewed my writing. This helped me make the decision to read the article multiple times, edit my work carefully, and meet all of the requirements. After all this was complete, I found this paper to be alot easier then before.
After reading the results of my diagnostic essay there are a few things I would change. Going into the class I had expected it to be a lot easier then it really is. The first thing I would have done differently would be the steps I took to write my essay. I would have collected my thoughts in something close to an outline and continue to write from there. Writing the essay now I also would have thought outside the box. The first time I kind of just read the words of the prompt, without really thinking of the actual meaning. I think that the fact I was not completely sure what the assignment was asking may have had a negative effect too. McCall was very clear on the side of the argument he supported, but I feel as if he implied some things that I did not see. On the Purdue Owl site that was recommended for us to read, it says that rhetoric is any communication used to modify the perspectives of others. If I were to write the essay again today, I would talk more about things I thought influenced children negatively that McCall didn't state in his essay.
sincerely,
Karah Trinkle
400 words
I agree I felt a little overwhelmed thinking this could be a paper that determined my future in this class and it made me intimidated at first. This affected my writing a bit because I was not only writing for my teacher I was also writing just to stay in the lass which added extra pressure because I did not want to have Mrs. Jarmer get a bad impression of my writing to start it off. I took the articles stance on how TV is negative on children as well, although I ran into a bit of a different problem I did not agree with all that be said in the article and I think he could have found better examples to have put in there instead. Writing an outline is a very good idea that I had not thought of, I was very hasty when I wrote my paper and did not take the unnecessary measures as well when I wrote it. If I could go back I would also have read over the paper several times to find my thesis statement sense mine was not very good. In fact I would have just liked to go back and scrapped my whole entire intro and replaced it with another introductory paragraph.
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