Kelly Vasquez

5 April 2020

Mrs. Thomas

UWRT 1104

1.Rhetorical Knowledge:

Rhetorical knowledge is the ability to understand and also use different strategies to carry a point

across in any type of writing. This is all carried out by having intention when writing, having the

ability to understand how genre, audience, purpose, and context impact a writer's choice. A

writer must be able to see who they are writing to and adjust by either tone, formality, design,

medium, and layout, being able to put themselves in the writers and readers shoes. The writer

must also be able to know how to pursue a person to believe or have connections with whatever

they are writing about.

1. What are Cicero's Five Canons?

1. Invention- ways to be persuasive

2. Arrangement-Structuring an argument effectively

3. Style-Presenting an argument to appeal to emotions

4. Memory- speaking fluently

5. Delivery- effective presentation

2. List the important terms so you can apply them.

1. The Three Rhetorical Devices are called, Ethos, Pathos and Logos
 1. Ethos- Moral Character, persuading the audience by

making them believe that the speaker is a good person

2. Pathos- Emotion, appealing to someone's softer side

3. Logos- Reason, explaining to the reader in a clear and

concise terms in a logical manner by providing concrete

evidence to support the claims

Above I provided part of my Studio 3 assignment, where I learned about Rhetorical Devices.

Throughout this studio, we were taught that there are 3 Rhetorical Devices: Ethos, Pathos, Logos

and they are used to convey the purpose of a writing to persuade people to think a certain way.

Ethos is a rhetorical device that makes the person who is conveying the message a nice person

that people can trust and believe in what they are saying . As for Pathos, the purpose of pathos is

to convey information in a way that it touches a person's emotional side. Logos is the last type of

rhetorical device that uses evidence to support any type of claim. We learned that we can take

different perspectives in order to convey a message and also use different ways to get a point

across. Rhetorical Knowledge allows us to understand the dynamics of a writing, things such as

the subject, purpose, possible genres and the reason as to why you are writing what you are

writing.

2. Critical Reading

Critical reading involves reading and interpreting your own writing or the writing of others.

When a writer is thinking critically, they examine all the sources and evidence that is being

presented. They also separate their own views and ideas when reading the material that is

presented. A person who is thinking critically is also able to provide feedback in a manner that
conveys what they are trying to communicate in a proper and collected way without coming off

as rude, giving advice instead of directly stating what they don’t like or what the writer should

change.

I have attached a part of one of my research summaries. One of the many key points of critical

reading is being able to know how credible your sources are. When I came across this source I

was not completely confident in the credibility of this source, but once I started reading it and

found more information about the author I knew that this source was credible and that it would

provide me with useful information for my topic about trauma.

3. Knowledge of Convention

Knowledge of convention includes the many guidelines that are necessary when composing any

type of writing. Some of these guidelines include the basics such as punctuation and grammar,

but knowledge of convention goes deeper. When writing, the writer must be able to fix their

mistakes, in order for their writing to have correctness and appropriateness. Making sure that

one’s writing is structured in a way that allows the content, style, organization, graphics, and

document design to flow in a proper manner. Also not forgetting to have a proper format of

citations.
Above is an image of my Inquiry Proposal. At the time I was writing my proposal I was very

focused and determined to finish it as quickly as I could which resulted in me having some

grammatical errors as well as places in my work where the sentence did not flow properly

leading to confusion. Even after correcting my work I still had many other revisions to do
including where to put commas or semicolons. I could see with my proposal and many other

writings that I have done that I need to reread and go over my work to avoid small mistakes that

can actually lead to confusion or the whole work looking as if no effort was placed on it.

4. Composing Processes

The composing process consists of all the steps that you take to get to a point in your writing

where you want to be. This includes, your sketches, rough drafts, peer reviewing, hitting the

backspace multiple times in your work, or having erase marks all over a page, everything

depending on our circumstances. If you get consultation from someone else, it is important to

note that they are only suggestions and should not be taken in a manner that seems offensive.

This also goes to the people that are giving the advice, they must be able to know how to give

advice in a way that is nice and also helpful, without people feeling as if they are being judged
by their writing.

With the image I placed above I included a correction that my professor recommended. I had

originally had the paragraph in the beginning of my proposal but it was recommended to be

placed further in the proposal; and explained further. All this was due to having my proposal
flow better and she the information presented in a more appropriate manner. The reason as to

why it was also placed further on in the proposal was to explain the information better and to

give resources to anyone who read my proposal and have experienced a traumatic event that they

have not fully recovered from.

5. Critical Reflection

Critical reflection is the last Student Learning Outcome, personally I feel it is one of the most

important ones as well. Critical reflection is the process of learning or finding out why you think

the way that you do, why you wrote your writing the way you did and what you did when you

were provided with feedback from your work. Critical reflection involves sitting down and

reflecting on what was just learned and how you implemented it in your own work.
In the image above I demonstrate critical reflection when I learned about the Pomodoro Study

Technique in studio six. In my second response, I acknowledge the benefits but also the

downsides of using this technique to study. When I first read about his technique, I was excited

to try it out, but once I sat there and actually thought about it, I realized that I had to analyze my

own self and recognize the ways that work for me when studying. I realized that once I have

inspiration and motivation to do my assignment I continue working without stopping taking up to

four hours with continuous work, but if someone interrupts me while I am doing work or

studying, I lose my motivation and once it is gone I tend to do other things and leave my

assignment behind. I realized that this method would not be beneficial to me and may not be

beneficial to other people.