My essay, Remembering “The Rise of Simple Sentences”, is a direct reflection of accepting who I am as an artist. I love to draw and paint a picture but being able to show it through writing metaphors really contribute to essay a lot. I used most of my practiced rhetorical devices in order to bring my reader in a world that I once thought was lost.

Writing with a particular audience in mind is extremely challenge, in fact, I think for me to have struggled with this from the beginning, I did a good job in capturing the fact that I didn’t have a “particular” audience in mind. In other words, I’m truly talking to everyone. However, I feel like the people that can relate to my essay the most would be writers. Moreover, finding the purpose of my essay is another concept that I struggled with while writing this essay. Originally when making drafts, I just wanted to tell a story and have others be mesmerized by the story telling skills I still seem to master. However, this wouldn’t be enough when trying to achieve the “main idea” of why my story is important. I got into my bubble when writing this essay. I’m hoping that in the next phase, I really focus on who my audience is and why my purpose is important to both the reader and I.

I achieved a few of the course learning outcome is in this assignment like “recognizing and practicing key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations” and “engage in collaborative social aspects of writing processes”.

“Recognizing & Practicing Key Rhetorical Terms”

Throughout this essay, as mentioned before, I used a lot of tone that would help the reader feel the experience as if they’re the ones going through what’s being described. I believe that due to long practice and forced refining, as mentioned in this assignment, has shown me how far I’ve come as an artist. I believe there’s always room for growth, but this essay embodies the fact that I’ve been practicing my writing. Moreover, I’ve been practicing devices like repetition, similes, metaphors, personification—all these devices contributing to my personal anecdote.

I think I still need to practice a few more rhetorical terms in order to come a more versatile writer. I remember in the drafting stage, I was trying to include juxtaposition to emphasize the amount of confusion and chaos this experience created for me, however, trying to include it made reader’s editing my drafts confused. Hopefully during the next phase assignment, I will have understood how to include a different batch of literary devices to make my essay explosive.

“Engaging in Collaborative and Social Aspects of Writing”

The feedback I got from Professor Miller, Kamel, and Jaime really boosted my confidence. They all took away from my essay what I wanted them to. They were my followers that I thought I lost. They really gave me amazing feedback on how to make it better and how to really branch off into deeper meaning of my essay. Moreover, being able to use my essay in order to help other with their essay. I used examples from my essay to help others improve the use of literary devices that would strengthen the severity of the experience discussed. This is the first time I used my own assignment to help someone else. I think that’s really shows the collaborate portion of this course learning outcome; being able to use someone else’s techniques.