TOW #28: Reflection

By looking at my TOWs from different points of the year, I notice a lot of progression in the structure of my writing and analysis. The firsts TOWs that I wrote followed the guidelines very closely and blatantly states each of the things that the TOWs required and didn't do much beyond that. But in my later ones I noticed that I stopped doing that and organized them into mini analysis essays and put all the information in a way that fit better as a whole. I think that the repetitiveness of the TOWs allowed me to master analyzing the purpose of the text that the author intended. When i first wrote them it took me a little bit to figure out what the author wanted the audience to see but by analyzing the rhetorical devices and the tone and development of the text, I was able to find it easier. The more texts I read throughout the year, the faster I was able to find the purpose. Although I've become good at this aspect of the TOWs, one thing I still have to improve on is the use of more rhetorical devices. When looking at my three TOWs that I chose, I noticed a similar pattern of basic devices like irony, tone, and pathos. It may be because I never took that much time to learn more devices that was in the packet from the beginning of the year. I can definitely improve this if I look at more and more devices and learn a lot more of them than I know now. I think that pulling all of this together, overall I benefitted from these assignments because it helped a lot when it came to the exam. By doing TOWs every Sunday, my skills with analyzing purpose and rhetorical devices greatly improved. I was also benefitted because my skills as a write got better because I began to put more time and effort into the assignments. With gaining these skills and constantly reading new text, my knowledge through non fiction text also got better because I was introduced to new experiences and pieces of writing.