Author: DAVID ZIRKIYEV

After reading this article, I realized that I have been using rhetoric in my life on a daily basis. For instance, as someone who practically grew up on the internet, I am a big social media user. Throughout my days, I make posts on my various social media accounts, which includes Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter. Though often inconsequential to my daily thought process, each one of the posts represents a rhetorical message. When I post a story on Snapchat or Instagram, my direct audience is my followers, which is a collection of my friends, family, and others that I have not seen or spoken to in a while. Though my audience can expand to husbands of people, my messages are limited to a target audience. For example, when I am out to dinner, I often take a video of my food and post it on my story. In this example, I am trying to communicate that I am out to dinner and this is what I am eating. But, there are moments where I post a story of me out in order to make someone else feel upset or jealous because they are not invited. Therefore, I am trying to communicate to a certain person that I am doing things without them.

When I make a post on Twitter, I consider this as an outlet to make people laugh. Most of my Twitter followers are not people that I know in real life. In fact, my Twitter is not linked with my name or photo. Therefore, when I post something to Twitter, I am trying to communicate that I am funny and understand the current sense of humor. Most of the time, my posts are related to new and interesting events in popular culture. By mosting about current events, I am trying to communicate that I am in touch with what is popular today. My audience can technically be anyone with a Twitter account because, unlike my Snapchat and Instagram profiles, my profile is public. However, since I mostly post about things that would make people in my age group laugh, I would say that my target audience is limited to my generation of Twitter users.

However, my use of rhetoric is not simply limited to my online presence, but it is just as omnipresent in my real life. For instance, when buying new clothes and getting dressed every morning, I attempt to make my outfits stylish and what I consider currently in trend. When I dress this way, I am trying to communicate that I have a sense of fashion, that I like to take care of myself, and that I am conscious of my appearance. I am trying to communicate this message to the audience of people that see me on a daily basis. Since I spend most of my days at school, I would consider my main audience to be my classmates, which are people around my own age.

Primarily, I like the outline and organization of this document. For example, this framework is able to break down seemingly simple ideas into developed definitions. As a student, I believe that I have been following much of this framework unknowingly. However, I am left wondering how much success rate would be with these new frameworks that I have yet to try, such as writing in different environments or changing my writing process.

I agree that these habits are essential to a successful writing process. In fact, I believe that these experiences can help improve my writing skills. In general, these habits mostly come naturally. For instance, when I am struggling with a complicated text or I am met with an idea that is unconventional for me, I am put in a position where my openness is tested. I must be able to be open to new ideas and thoughts in order to properly understand a novel idea. Also, without the ability to acknowledge my rhetoric style and my audience, I doubt my writing, especially in school, would be successful. Therefore, these methods are essential.

I have been guided toward these habits and experiences before, but I believe I have experienced them in different ways than described in the framework. Particularly, I believe that my education this far has helped me in developing a knowledge of convention. For instance, I have a sense of the difference between the tone and style of a research paper and a fictional story. As the framework suggests, I have learned to identify various types of writing by practicing it myself throughout my education. However, I believe that the greatest contributor to my knowledge of convention has come from my personal reading. My personal reading of newspapers and novels throughout the years has helped me fine tune this skill without even truly understanding the implications of all my complicated knowledge until reading this framework.

I have used these methods of the mind before. Oftentimes, when I find myself beginning a new writing assignment, I am met with a sense of curiosity. The questions that I ask myself and the knowledge that I seek is precisely what motivates me to write. When I identify the questions I wish to answer, my next step is to conduct research, such as reviewing the text I wish to analyze. In addition, I find that I need persistence in order to finish an assignment, regardless of the length. There are moments where I find myself struggling to continue an assignment. In moments like these, I give myself a mental break, but I do not give up. I persist and continue the assignment when I have a clear head and am able to think and write.

I see these experiences manifesting in my education on a daily basis. As I have mentioned above, my curiosity and persistence have helped me come this far in my educational career and has developed my interest in reading and writing. Additionally, my engagement in the material I am working with sparks my interest and creativity when developing my own writing.

Primarily, I like the outline and organization of this document. For example, this framework is able to break down seemingly simple ideas into developed definitions. As a student, I believe that I have been following much of this framework unknowingly. However, I am left wondering how much success rate would be with these new frameworks that I have yet to try, such as writing in different environments or changing my writing process.
I agree that these habits are essential to a successful writing process. In fact, I believe that these experiences can help improve my writing skills. In general, these habits mostly come naturally. For instance, when I am struggling with a complicated text or I am met with an idea that is unconventional for me, I am put in a position where my openness is tested. I must be able to be open to new ideas and thoughts in order to properly understand a novel idea. Also, without the ability to acknowledge my rhetoric style and my audience, I doubt my writing, especially in school, would be successful. Therefore, these methods are essential.
I have been guided toward these habits and experiences before, but I believe I have experienced them in different ways than described in the framework. Particularly, I believe that my education this far has helped me in developing a knowledge of convention. For instance, I have a sense of the difference between the tone and style of a research paper and a fictional story. As the framework suggests, I have learned to identify various types of writing by practicing it myself throughout my education. However, I believe that the greatest contributor to my knowledge of convention has come from my personal reading. My personal reading of newspapers and novels throughout the years has helped me fine tune this skill without even truly understanding the implications of all my complicated knowledge until reading this framework.
I have used these methods of the mind before. Oftentimes, when I find myself beginning a new writing assignment, I am met with a sense of curiosity. The questions that I ask myself and the knowledge that I seek is precisely what motivates me to write. When I identify the questions I wish to answer, my next step is to conduct research, such as reviewing the text I wish to analyze. In addition, I find that I need persistence in order to finish an assignment, regardless of the length. There are moments where I find myself struggling to continue an assignment. In moments like these, I give myself a mental break, but I do not give up. I persist and continue the assignment when I have a clear head and am able to think and write.
I see these experiences manifesting in my education on a daily basis. As I have mentioned above, my curiosity and persistence have helped me come this far in my educational career and has developed my interest in reading and writing. Additionally, my engagement in the material I am working with sparks my interest and creativity when developing my own writing.

I am convinced that every writer had a moment of struggle when writing a paper. Personally, I always found myself having problems with argumentative papers mainly because the papers were not allowed to be written in first person. At one point in high school, my English teacher assigned an argumentative essay based on cryptocurrency and whether the government should regulate it. It was very difficult for me not to include my thoughts into this paper since I do have a history of dealing with the crypto market. I believe that papers are supposed to be written based on how you feel about a subject however it is a bit difficult when you cannot include your personal thoughts. According to Kate Mckinney Maddalena, they state, “A clear description of your perspective becomes even more important when your stance has to incorporate or respond to someone else’s.” This article also taught me how to properly use first person for example, using “I” when you are asked to summarize and respond or when you are introducing a paper. The author also emphasized that “I” should not be overused. I think this author changed my perspective on how to write papers definitely because they also gave us examples on when to use “I”, vice versa. However, I do have mixed feelings about using “I” because the attached podcast’s go against first person writing. My goal for this week is to go over what other writers have to say in regards to writing in first person.

Journal Prompt

A story can be defined as a canny depiction of either existing or fictitious persons or things to amuse, enlighten, or criticize an audience. It can also be defined as a narrative, real or fabricated, intended to fascinate, entertain, or educate the listener or bibliophile. It is an invented tale, briefer, and less complex than a narrative. A story can be defined as a recitation of an event or a chain of incidents that can be told, as a story or joke. It can also be a narration of a life event or the life of an individual or a thing. The first most crucial element in a thrilling story is disagreement and conflict. For example, conflict is a dominant theme in Sula. The story features a conflict between two childhood friends, Nel and Sula, who are separated by demise, lust, disloyalty, and disagreement. The other element is strange characters. In the Metamorphosis, Gregor transforms into a huge burg. Other elements of a good story include suspense, tension, mystery, and surprise.

This week was a journey, just because all my professors started assigning homework and PowerPoints.  However, I was able to grasp how the website is laid out. I am getting the hang of all the assignments; however, I do feel like I am jammed with a bunch. My goal for next week is to not procrastinate until the last minute, I have a habit of leaving off assignments till the last minute and then stress about it. However, I did finish my essay and go over it a few times. This week was certainly a punch of reality/wake-up call to start managing my time properly.

Hey,My name is David Zirkiyev, the pronouns I go by are he/him.Believe it or not, I am looking forward to this English class because I do have some problems that I wouldlike to address. For example, I have issues getting straight to the point whether it is an email or a shortresponse. The goal for me is to learn how to eliminate unneeded info when writing.Can you please let me know where I can find the grading system? I wasn’t able to find it in the syllabus.A rule that I go by when writing is, “Simple sentences work best”. My 8th-grade teacher taught me thisrule since I always had a problem with run-on sentences. This rule helps me with compressing mysentences. I do believe this rule is true because people tend to understand your point when thesentences are simple.I am not a big fan of writing. I mostly write when sending out emails at work. I usually take around 3-5minutes thinking about how to properly word an email without sounding too repeatable (Always had aproblem with that). As stated before, I find writing very frustrating.

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