For Unit 5's Reflection, I reviewed my previous TOWs on Red Bull Stratos, the article "Never Mind Talent," and the Audi Superbowl Ad, respectively. In the first one, I noticed I relied substantially on summery, and only had 1 concluding paragraph discussing the rhetoric of the video. The TOW's length did not reflect the minimal information provided. In the second TOW, there was a noticeable difference in the amount of rhetorical analysis, and the length of the blog entry was much more appropriate. The writing style reminds me of Argument essays, which reflects what we had covered in class up to that point in time. My last TOW, from the 3rd maring period, was extremely long, discussed multiple rhetorical devices, and even made a solid attempt at analyzing the effectiveness of the advertisement. The TOW seemed like 5/6ths AP English information and only 1/6th summary, and I was even impressed with my own mentioning of the context of the ad: Superbowl ads tend to be about being cool rather than informative.
Overall, I feel like I have mastered the art of picking out rhetorical devices and strategies in various texts and videos, but I can still improve my ability to analyze each strategy's effectiveness, as well as being concise in doing so. This year's TOW assignments were meant to encourage me and my classmates' actively reading of a variety of texts, and putting the information we've learned in class to the test. Overall, I think my TOWs reflected how I've grown over the course of the year, but did not help me actually grow themselves. I say this because I did not use any of my sources on 5.10.13, and each week when I went to write my TOW, it felt like busy work to me, rather than an opportunity to learn.
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