The rhetorical terms such as purpose, audience, genre, interpretive problem, research question, status quo, counter-argument, etc were taught and used in class during the semester. For the papers I have written, they all have a purpose. Whether it is to define the word science through Stuart Firestein’s introduction to Ignorance: How it Drives Science or creating annotated bibliographies for multiple texts.

The first paper I wrote for the FIQWS class the Introductory Esssay, I found this assignment easy. The majority was opinion based on the way I am as a writer. I portrayed myself as a writing texts that are concise and to the point. All writers have different ways to put their ideas down onto paper and for me I brainstorm whatever comes up in my mind-whether it may or may not be related to the idea. I list all ideas because I can use unrelated topics as an argument depending on the assignment. Overall, I received a good grade and understood the topic assignment well.

I learned that reading texts, collaborating ideas with others, revising papers and editing them improved my writing. From using rhetorical techniques to reflecting on Summary and Response essays. It helps when there is peer editing because another person may look at weaknesses you may have that they can spot out to help improve your writing. They also may have other ideas or add ons.

For our first year of writing, we worked on a small assignment of “The Most Common Technical Mistakes in First-Year Writing.” Here, we had to correct grammatical errors in sentences, add words and fix punctuations. It taught us how to start sentences when we were citing a text. For example, after citing the text/quote, we would put the author’s name in parentheses.                                           For the class work on the left side, we had to peer edit each other’s work based on the summary and response essay. We talked about rhetorical features that the paper had, how successful the paper was in supporting its argument with evidence, how thought provoking a question could be, etc. Even though my classmate did the essay task on a different text of Mortimer’s text, the peer edit can still be used.

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