First I want to say thank you to those who have visited our cohort blog and left comments in this last post. It is your response that makes this blog more interesting.
It has been a wonderful though a bit overwhelming semester for me and I am glad I learned something about the language and rhetoric. I have learned the rhetorical triangle, the dynamic of language, and how that balance among logos, pathos and ethos makes language so engaging and powerful. And in the discussion for each of the three elements within the triangle, I learned what helps and hampers each and how each impacts the overall argument.
My biggest takeaway in this class is that I am more sensitive and willing to pay attention to the language. Before I took this class, I would not focus much on the language itself but mainly on the ideas that it tries to convey when I read something. But now intuitively I am more likely to consider: How does it achieve the goal of conveying these ideas? Can it be expressed in another way? When I sit in a pizza restaurant, I may even stare at slogans the on the wall, deciding whether this is a good advertisement in my mind and this is something I will not do before.
Although the writing assignments in this class are time-consuming, they push me to think deeper and develop a considerable length of paragraph to present my argument and I think it is effective to train my writing skills because it is easier to write a few sentences, but much more difficult to develop an organized and well supported paragraph.
Overall, this course leaves me a lot of thoughts and I do have an enjoyable semester.
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