Rhetorical Terms and Strategies when engaged in Writing

The Diagnostic/Process analysis paper incorporated process analysis; the Diagnostic/Process analysis paper was in order to evaluate our knowledge of we present information from beginning to end in a effective and succinct way. Through the Diagnostic/Process analysis, I learned, personally, about how introductions are supposed to be a way to coax readers into reading more. The way that I have used this information is by making more creative introductions like using quotes, or starting in-media-res. As for conclusions, what I learned is that conclusions have to be succinct and incorporate the main idea of the whole paper, along with the body paragraphs. I have since used that information for all my papers.

The Literacy narrative helped incorporate description, but also the five strategies of narration: situation, conflict, struggle, outcome, and meaning in order. The way that I started off the Literacy narrative was starting with the conflict, as I began the story in-media-res:

Fig.5: The Introduction of the Literacy Narrative

Thus, not only does that break the mold of the regular five strategies of narration, but it also creates an interesting introduction as it places the audience in the middle of the story and makes them want to find out what happens.

Fig.6 and 7: The Struggle and Conflict of the Literacy Narrative

Fig.8: The Outcome and Meaning of the Literacy Narrative

Evident in the photos, there is a clear progression of the story after the introduction. Then the outcome and meaning come at the end, concluding the importance of the struggle that I had when I was trying to teach my little brother how to read and the realization of wanting to become a teacher because of it.

The Summary and Response paper incorporated the summarizing and argumentation of an article, more specifically, the article “On Whole Foods, Gentrification and the Erasure of Black Harlem” by Angela Helm. I also learned how to incorporate and include evidence from other sources from other sources.

Fig.9: Introduction of my Summary Response

Evidently, this introduction has a summary of both Angela Helm and her credibility, and the summary of her article “On Whole Foods, Gentrification and the Erasure of Black Harlem”. The way that I had summarized both Angela Helm and her article was through evaluating her authorship, sponsorship, relevancy, and currency. Thus, showing that this article was made recently, and that Angela Helm is a Harlem resident shows credibility for the article.

Fig.10: Plugging in evidence for the articles

Furthermore, in Figure 10, it is shown that I am able to cohesively apply the evidence into the sentences without having to break; a smooth transition from paragraph writing to introducing and applying the evidence.

The Exploratory incorporated the way the that I created introductions from the Diagnostic/Process analysis paper. The way that I had created the introduction was by using a quote that was directly influenced and talked about the rest of my Exploratory Essay.

Fig.11: Introduction of Exploratory Essay

Evidently, the introduction fuses the quote and the important summary of the Harlem Renaissance and the time periods surrounding.

Fig.12 and 13: Application of Evidence in the Exploratory Essay and Formal analysis of the Works of Art.

The evidence from Langston Hughes’ poem is smoothly transitioned into the paragraph. This skill was learned from the Summary and Response essay. Additionally, I had used my old skills of formal analysis from my Art History class in order to analyze the work of art.

Fig. 14: Conclusion of the Exploratory Essay

The conclusion is the same structure as the one learned from the Diagnostic/Process analysis paper.

The Critical research paper/Field report incorporated a lot of the skills from previous essays and papers. The introduction of the Critical research paper/Field report implores the introduction skills from the Diagnostic/Process analysis paper because I had used a fact of Harlem in order to captivate the audience to read more into the Critical research paper/Field report. Another skill incorporated into the Critical research paper/Field report was the way that the evidence was implemented into the paragraph; smooth transition. For example, smoothly incorporating the quotes from the interview from Mr. Sanford Biggers while discussing the results of the paper.