- 1. What I did this week?
- Analysis ideas
- Fixed up my schedule
- 2. What went well
- The fact that I had set up a proper schedule.
- 3. What I had trouble with
- Making time for my work because of the holidays and helping around the house.
- 4. To do list
- Create a rough draft for my Analysis Assignment
- 5. Left off
- Creating an outline.
- 6. This week was a bit challenging as well during the holidays because I cannot complete work certain days. I am writing this during my long car-ride home.
- Roberts-Miller describes the extreme consequences of negative rhetoric or rhetoric that intentionally misleads an audience (11). Think of a time you have seen rhetoric in action. Was it positive or negative? Was it used to get at the truth or to mislead? What were the consequences?
- So often our words and writings influence others.
Roberts-Miller stresses that rhetoric isn’t bad or good, but it’s almost never neutral. I recall reading an article about the famous gorilla, Harambe, when a youth fell into his pit was shot as the friendly gorilla only was helping the kid. This article was an example of negative rhetoric because of the image they gave the gorilla. They claimed it to be a beast and attacking. Many used this excuse that it was okay to kill an animal. If they simply tranquilized him we might have saved it’s life. We can face consequences based on our writing. Creating rhetoric which negatively influences, can backfire because of the ideas it’s brings to people. Creating reasons for killing doesn’t negate the fact of the death. I’m not saying it was right or wrong to do, but I will say that rhetoric definitely helped create your and my opinion on this topic.
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