First off I want to thank my instructor, Mr. Mitchell. You allow your English classes to express their creativity through their writing especially through our blogs. First, we were allowed to title our blogs and come up with our own screen names. I chose to use crazykid09 because this best represents my personality. I am the crazy kid that has and will get out of a car to dance on the highway. I am the one who always wants to have a good time. When Mr. Mitchell let us choose our names, it just rang creativity. Throughout this semester I have learned a few new things about writing. The first thing I learned how to do was to analyze an ad. The second thing I learned was how to write was a claim paper. The last paper I learned how to write was the Rogerian Argument. I absolutely loved the website project. I definitely thought we were able to show off our creativity. Mr. Mitchell encouraged us to write with ethos. Ethos is our personality and we use it by incorporating it into our work.
Throughout the year I have changed. My perception on things has changed. I have found how my major and minor can tie into any paper I wish to write about. Let’s take the Rogerian argument for example, the man who created this type of argument was a psychologist. The Rogerian argument was based off of Carl Rogers’ therapy. Amazing. I have to say the Rogerian argument was my favorite. I enjoyed presenting both sides equally. In the traditional style of writing we butcher our opposing side. But in the Rogerian, you approach the argument by not pointing fingers and claiming who is right or wrong. In the website project, my group taught our audience how to write certain types of arguments. This showed not only Mr. Mitchell, but ourselves what we learned. We talked about the dos and don’ts on writing. We even used our own essays as examples, showing our readers how easy it is to write these essays. We provided our own ethos into our websites. By providing ethos, we gained our readers trust. My least favorite paper to write was the claim argument. But I learned how to incorporate ethos, logos and pathos into my essays. Ethos, pathos, and logos provided validity between me and my audience. I enjoyed writing about my favorite accessory in the word, my iPod. Then writing about how society relies on technology too much showed me how much I need technology. I am ashamed to say I cannot go a few days without technology. I saw how much I relied on technology this semester alone.
An ending note: Thank you Mr. Mitchell! You taught us that writing essays is not as boring as we once thought it was. Essays should be about us and we should be able to have fun while writing them. You helped all of your students find themselves as writers, just like I found myself. You also helped some of us realize how badly we rely on technology to get through our day. So now, I do not get on facebook, I do not take my iPod everywhere, and I no longer have my phone attached to my hand. Thank you. I have more time for people who matter most to me.
