What I Want To Learn This Semester

When asked the question “what would you like to learn this semester,” many students ponder the information and tools that they desire to learn in order to strive academically. While it is true that many of the things I aspire to learn and obtain help me to succeed in my education, I also have other goals and aspirations for this semester that do not pertain to school.

With that being said, one of my goals this semester is to learn how to better organize my time, as well as my space. It is so easy to get caught up in life’s everyday pleasures, such as scrolling for hours on social media or watching countless episodes of a Netflix series, that we often put aside what we need to get done to focus on what we want to get done. Learning to better manage my time and keep an organized space will not only benefit me by helping me stay on top of my school work, but it will also allow me to finish my important work first, and then give me time to relax in an organized environment.

Although there are a plethora of other non-school related topics that I desire to learn, there is also an abundance of academic things I wish to achieve, especially in English 1302.

I hope to learn how to better use rhetoric to persuade others because it will benefit me, not only in the class this semester, but in everyday life as well. With the proper use of rhetoric, job applications and college acceptance requests will be much easier to persuade an administrator to choose me for the position. I also would like to learn how to better develop ideas from a reading excerpt or assigned passage into a well-written paper. Stating formal ideas in a way that readers are able to understand has always been a struggle for me, and I hope that this class can help teach me how to organize ideas from a novel better.

On the topic of persuasion, rhetoric can be seen and used in everyday life, especially when it comes to living with a family. This week, I experience rhetoric when my sister persuaded me to play foursquare with her in the rain. Although I did not particularly want to get wet, I reluctantly agreed to play with her and ended up having a great time.

Rhetoric can be seen in the photo above because the advertisement is attempting to persuade the public to refrain from smoking. It uses a statistic to prove that smoking is a danger, and it further illustrates this claim by including the words, “smoking kills.”

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