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A rhetorical situation is essentially the context that makes up a certain text. It serves to narrow down the specifics of a text, such as what they’re aiming to achieve, the significance/purpose, and even helps in determining the reason for this text’s existence. Using “Bad ideas About Writing” as an example, one could see that in the section titled “Texting Ruins Students’ Grammar Skills,” written by Scott Warnock, the rhetorical situation is responding to a long-time misbelief that digital technology is negatively affecting todays’ students. Within the specific section, Warnock addresses how texting and digital technology in general can’t carry bad habits over to real writing and that it’s more helpful to students by making them more literate. You can tell from his writing that he’s portraying these ideas to an older audience who believe digital technology is bad and wants to disprove this common misbelief amongst the old generation.

1. 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?

 

rhetoric is described as a way of speaking to persuade another person. Think of it like a rhetorical question; you ask someone something (that doesn’t typically have an answer) in hopes of changing their view on something. An example would be a sub page on reddit called r/ELI5 which stands for ‘Explain Like I’m 5″.  It’s devoted to clearly explaining difficult concepts in a simpler fashion to others. I guess this can be considered a type of rhetoric. This would be a positive rhetoric as it teaches people ideas perceived as hard and makes it no longer as hard. Sometimes people can mislead others by giving false/incorrect information but through personal experience, I found that not to happen often at all.

• Have you ever been guided toward these habits and experiences before? Have you developed/experienced them in other ways?

When I was younger, I have been guided towards several of the habits of mind. Curiosity and openness are two of the biggest one’s that I’m familiar with considering I’m still actively using them in my life. I still wonder about things in life and I utilized that experience in writing. On top of that, I utilized my openness in reading to branch out my interests. I used these to develop better strategies all together in writing so that I could excel in college-level writing.

• Write about what seems challenging in the Literacy Narrative assignment. What strategies can you employ to tackle these challenges? What questions remain or things are still unknown about this assignment?

Not gonna lie, this Literacy Narrative may be the death of me. There’s only so much one can write about how literacy impacted their life, and I seem to have gotten all my points across yet it still doesn’t seem like enough. As I’m writing the polished draft, I realized there’s not much else to add in terms of details; all I need to do is fix up the grammar and transitions to make it a more formal essay.

How would one define a story? Well you see, Maxwell and Dickman believe that “a story is a fact, wrapped in an emotion that compels us to take an action that transforms our world.” Adding on to their definition, a story is basically an all around experience. That experience, plus the emotions portrayed from that experience is what makes a story great. That goes for any story, regardless of the genre. In my opinion, the most important elements of a good story is having relatable characters. Without them, readers can’t fully immerse themselves into a story. Realistic characters who solve extraordinary, but believable problems make for the best stories. You see this with books like The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky or The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. Readers around our age are able to relate to these characters’ personality traits and that’s what makes their books great.

My name is Rayan Khan, with my pronouns being he/him. For this course, I’m simply aiming to get an A (or an A+ if that’s possible). I am confused about this entire blog thing considering it’s all new to me and I don’t even know if I’m doing this right.

 

When it comes to writing, I know of the general “rules” of it, but I never really applied myself with writing so I’m not really sure how I would describe them. My relationship with writing is complicated. I enjoy it when I know what I’m doing, but that barely ever happens so it’s whatever. It’s kind of frustrating.

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