It’s time to really buckle down and work. Please watch this blog space for information about your first big project, which will be available on Monday, 9/18, in the morning. In the meantime, you have work to do for Monday. As the syllabus says, for Blog Post #2, please choose a substantial piece of academic writing you have done. This can be a paper or project you completed in high school or for previous college classes. Provide a brief description of that piece of writing. Then perform (1) the ethos/pathos/logos method of rhetorical analysis on it and (2) the Toulmin method of rhetorical analysis on it. Write at least a paragraph exploring how analyzing your own writing with these methods might help you improve as a writer.

Also, to prepare for your next assignment, please read this page about annotated bibliographies. As always, email me with any questions.