Exploring the Persuasive Power of Text
The writing components of this course are graded as a portfolio, starting with your cover letter. This portfolio, like all your work this semester, will be entirely digital. Digital portfolios are easier to make than you think, once you wrap your brain around what they actually are. For the Want of a Staple When people…
This assignment wraps up your semester and shows you successfully completed the course. Ready to make your final portfolio for class? Here’s how.
Audrey WardClass of 2022 / English Major / audrey.ward@email.saintleo.edu28 April 2020Dr. FriendAssistant Professor of EnglishSaint Leo University Dear Dr. FriendThrough the weeks, of course, I found myself using the information from our group discussions in class to further understand each task in the assignments. Entering this class I did not know how Rhetoric was used…
There’s a recently published anti- vegan article that’s titled “10 Reasons Why I’ll Never Be Vegan” and is written by Lauren Geertsen on October 13th of 2014 on the Empowered Sustenance’s website platform. BBC should be on the look out for this article because the author is basing the information they’re giving off of their…
Dear Friend, This course was an interesting journey that taught me a lot, including the correct pronunciation of rhetoric. Although I was quiet most of the time, I was paying attention and taking in everyone’s conversations and arguments. It was not that I was not interested- it was more so that most of the time,…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech One of the most famous speeches in the entire world, the “I have a dream” speech, took place on August 28th, 1963, during the March on Washington. The march was a civil rights demonstration, and as Martin Luther King Jr was one of the leaders of that…
Over the years this country has endured many a smear campaign, but this video takes the cake… Wow… This ad was created by the Latino Victory Fund in response to Ed Gillespie running for governor of Virginia. Gillespie’s apparent racist tendencies sparked outrage and the Latino Victory Fund responded with this ad depicting a Gillespie…
This assignment was to create a meme that makes a claim about the modern perception of Rhetoric and I believe the following is a great representation. This meme fits because the majority of society doesn’t honestly know what rhetoric is or how to use it. The claim that I’m making with this meme is that…
Nicole Sanchez Class of 2022 | English Major|nicole.sanchez02@email.saintleo.edu 22 April 2020 Dr. Friend Assistant Professor of English Saint Leo University Dear Dr. Friend, In the beginning of the semester I didn’t realize the true importance of mastering rhetoric, but as I continued to learn about the skill I began to realize how and why it’s…
Dear Friend, Thank you for a truly interesting, fun, and educational semester. I entered the class, happy to be around classmates I know and enjoy being around. I still, of course, enjoy being around these people, and I’m sad to see the seniors go. I’ve grown with these people as a critical thinker, reader, and…
Breath, Eyes, Memory Close-Reading Discussion Post I found the relationship between Tante Atie and Louise particularly interesting through a queer lens. The passage that first indicated this queer lens to me was when Dessalines was killed and “Louise buried her head in Tante Atie’s shoulder. Their faces were so close that their lips could meet…
Business Magazine, Forbes Pushes Liberal Agenda Tom Spiggle of Forbes manipulates his audience into thinking that the U.S. women’s national soccer team is unfairly payed less than the men’s team. Spiggle expresses personal opinions and glosses over facts which undermine his argument. In Spiggle’s article, “What the U.S. Women’s Soccer Controversy Says About Equal Pay,”…