My moments

I‘ve always considered writing as the best way to communicate. Some say that written words don’t have the same impact as spoken words, but I disagree with that. Why? Because, writing gives us the chance to have a better preparation which result in higher chances of having a more solid and concise idea or opinion. I consider that when the readers can interpret, understand and feel exactly your emotions, as a writer you have reached a level where you can achieve greater objectives.  Before knowing about the concepts learned in class, I used to write in a way considering that the audience would know more than I, not depending on the topic. That would always result sometimes in others not being able to understand my ideas completely. I lost the count of how many times I’ve been asked to rewrite an essay, or paper. It was frustrating, but the truth is that most of times I was just not paying attention to the key aspects learned in this class. Now, as a writer, I always try to remember myself of the importance of defining a rhetorical situation, a target audience, defining what genre to use and lastly, do my best and hope that I was successful in expressing myself and making the readers take in consideration my words.

I always start by doing the basic questions: what am I going to write and to who. Why am I writing? Where is it going to be received and when I consider not to be important questions but during the process they will end up being made at some point. This is my easy way of remembering about rhetoric, rhetorical situation and audience.

The next step, I consider to be the most difficult because it involves doing another question: how am I going to write? By doing this question I am forcing myself to pay attention to the genre and to the type of appeal to use. What type of genre is best suited for my purpose and how am I going to appeal to my audience. Before starting this class, the types of appeal was not that important to me because my writing process was more like a formula 1 race car: once it starts, only stops when the race is finished. Now, I see a certain beauty in how successful you are going to appeal to the audience because it can make readers know a little about yourself. Imagine, if people see trust in what you write just because they know who you are, it definitely shows how much consideration they have for you. This is how I see Ethos. I see pathos as a way of explaining your reasons by making the reader get “inside of my head” by making they feel the same emotions as me and logos as a way to convince them by using logic. However, I see logic as not a very good argument because of how easy it can be twisted.

The last step, is joining the responses from the questions that I made to myself before and see the results, and finally write. The writing part is usually supported with a lot of sugar and sodas to keep me awakened and focused, but depending on the subject it can be the funniest part. There is no reason to do something that you don’t like so if I am going to write, at least I need to make some part of the writing process fun, so that succeeding or failing, I won’t have regrets about it.