Hello once again,
today I will be writing about not the graphic novel Freshman  but instead the some of the other reading materials I have had the pleasure of reading for class. Of the reading material I have read so far I believe my favorite topic was in Understanding Rhetoric(UR), specifically in Issue(chapter) 1. I liked talking about Ethos, Logos, Pathos, and Kairos. I liked learning about this subject because it was an expansion on something I was already familiar with, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are all things I heard about in high school and had helped me a great deal in righting papers before but the introduction of Kairos was new and seemed simple enough to learn (additionally Kairos sounds a lot like Kronos in my mind so it was simple to remember Kairos is about time because Kronos held dominion over time in Greek myth and my love of Greek myth just enjoyed that a bit). It also helped that UR is written in a comic book style so it is so much easier to digest compared to the other books I have had to read for class. On the flip side a section i really did not enjoy learning about was well not a specific section but most anything in AW: A Guide to Academic Writing, there is nothing overtly wrong with the readings from it, I just find them very dull in comparison to other reading for class, I think they remind me to much of the science textbooks I had to read back in high school so maybe that is why, because for all intents and purposes they are very similar to the readings in They Say, I Say but I do not mind reading that book.

But honestly the reading I feel have helped me with my writing quite a bit. I am not a huge fan of writing, I don’t do it if I can help it, and to be fair I have never been a huge fan of my own writing. I mean I’ve never been disappointed in it I always have given good work when i need to, but it could definitely improve. I have always felt that given enough time I could wright about almost any subject for most any given length so writing papers for classes with a page minimum in a subject I am not particularly interested in is simple but on the downside of that I have always felt that my writing is unnecessarily wordee, additionally I would use words in my writing that I would never in my day to day life just to add length to my text. But I am working on it, I have slowed my self down given myself more time to think because my go to plan for writing is to just type what ever words pop into my head but as of late i’ve been thinking more about word choice and how to effectively use my words. All in all, I have much to imporve on and Im working to better myself in the way I wright.

Thanks for tunning in,
Logan Wooton