NAME: Andrew Norton

CLASS PERIOD: 2

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ORIGINAL COLUMN REFLECTION

After you have re-read and annotated your column, fill in the document below thoroughly in
complete sentences. New directive: DO NOT DELETE THE QUESTIONS. ANSWER
UNDER THE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIVES:.

1. How many words (total) is your column?

I had 533 words total.
2. What is the topic of your column?
VR realistic gaming and dangers involved with realistic virtual simulations.
3. In third person, (that means you are not the author but a reader) delineate
the thesis of the of column by typing a precise first sentence of the precis (review the
format carefully.)
In Column, Andrew Norton reflecting with his own early experience with violent video
games creates an argument that highlights the danger of improving immersion.

4. Who is your audience, and what in your column gives credence to your
answer?
My audience would be explicitly parents with VR systems. The 12 years of experience I
have with different video games and their effects.

5. What research did you do prior to and during the creation of your column?
I researched where VR was heading and some of the effects from hyper realistic video
games. That includes VR systems like Tesla Suit and Feelreal. Also consumer reports of video
games like Battlefield One and horror video games in VR.

6. Number and list AT LEAST five (5) rhetorical strategies you mimicked from
your columnist: 1. Anecdote 2. Periodic Sentence Structure 3. Cliche 4. Antithesis 5.
Metaphor

7. Number and list at least three (3) additional strategies you utilized in your
column:
 1. Direct detail (from the subject) 2. Shift in tone 3. Hyperbole

8. In a thorough paragraph, reflect on this entire columnist project process.

What did
you learn? What were your challenges? What were your accomplishments? Did
any of your prior opinions change, etc., etc.
This columnist project absolutely sucked for me. It was horrible in the fact that I
ended up having to just randomly choose a columnist or I would have never picked one. My
biggest problem or challenge with this project would have been the way my chosen columnist
wrote. Her column mainly consists with researched quotes from her subjects with implied
meaning leaving most of the strategies that i wouldve been able to use a rhetorical analysis
extremely hard for me to find. In this project my only accomplishment I felt was in sealing my
fate in taking a junior English again over the summer. My opinions really havent changed as
much about the subjects I read about because I really didnt have too big of an opinion about
Donald Trump to start with; and all of what my columnists said just fed into why die-hard
republicans dont read or care about what columnist like her has to say. So overall this columnist
project ended up dragging me down and I most likely wouldve been better off accepting my
grade and focusing on other classes or the upcoming AP exam for this class.