Ibrahim.kuku

Cover letter

Dear reader.

As many individuals may have assumed, knowledge is both what we learn in school and what we learn from society through a particular culture and its traditions.I beg to differ because I believe that knowledge encompasses not only what we acquire through society and the educational system, but also everything that has occurred physically and intangibly over time. I have come to the following conclusion about who my audience is and what I want each reader to take away from the reading through my written language and literacy narrative.

To begin, the majority of my audience are likely educated individuals of various ages, races, and backgrounds.This is due to the fact that my knowledge can only be translated into words by someone who is proficient in English.If this paper is published by well-known internet websites, the literacy skills of the individuals who read it will serve as a filter that may prevent non eaglish reader of any kind from understanding my contents. Because I am a reader as well as a writer, I have incorporated stories from my childhood into my writing because I am aware that people enjoy hearing stories from other people, especially when they come from a different place.In choosing a story to import, I decided not to choose a very serious story because I wanted to tell people about me and ease any tensions the reader might be experiencing. Instead, I chose a humorous story that will both convey my message to the reader and make them smile.

When I was writing, I had to do research on things about which I was unsure.Despite the fact that this is a personal essay, I must reflect on my past and how it had affected me.I was able to share the ideas I wanted to talk about with others and incorporate them into my language and literacy narrative with the assistance of my brief research into my early years.On the one hand, it’s easy to talk about “writing language and literacy,” but on the other, it’s hard to talk about.Even though there were a lot of bad things that happened, I had a very happy childhood, so there were a few challenges for me.The good news is that because I am still alive today, my brain interprets the negative memories as positive events that made my childhood great.

Writing this paper feels like being in therapy right now.I’m pretty good at keeping my personal life a secret.After writing my essay, I did a lot of thinking because I don’t believe in therapy.I wasn’t aware of the power of language until I had to think back on my past in relation to my Arodon story. This made me realize that some languages don’t have that word, so they don’t have the fun experience I had.The saddest part is that their descendants will not be able to have a cool childhood experience of their own because that word and its meaning are missing. I came to the realization that knowledge is somehow connected to time in a way that I—not an expert—have yet to demonstrate. This is due to the fact that every moment that passes by is filled with information that our brains absorbed without our knowledge, which may then explain how people know things without even realizing it.

Language and literacy Narrative

My yoruba language is the sweetest and the easiest language in the world. If you walk up to me at any moment in my daily life, even in my sleep, to ask me to give you reasons for you to be interested in learning how to speak, and or read the Yoruba language. I will be able to speak from morning to midnight because there is so much stuff and events to talk about. Compared to other languages like English, or other European languages. The biggest difference my language has is respect.

Respect is something people of this generation have taken for granted. The z-generation is widely known for their lack of respect by the older generations, and people of our generation ourselves. I can’t imagine how my life would have turned out without my Yoruba language to guide me. There are many words that exist in the Yoruba man’s mouth but cannot be translated into English. Most of these words as I can recall happen to be words that show and give respect to the elderly, or when respect is due. The fun in Yoruba man’s tongue is how words change just for the sake of showing respect. For example, when I translate the sentence “mummy is calling you” to yoruba, it becomes “mummy n pe e” or “mummy n pe yin”. The difference between the two sentences is that one can be used to someone at the same age/younger age, while the other should be and must be used for someone older even if it’s a one year age difference. The word yin is a respectful word that shows one’s level of respect, and if ever the word E is used instead of yin is used, it’s a sign of being disrespectful, and might be punished by your parents or older people around.

People all over the world use English to communicate.As an African, parents and society rejoice when children speak standard English at home, and they may even treat you differently if you speak English rather than your native tongue.When the colonizers arrived, they gave my Yoruba language the name “vernacula.”I can recall getting in trouble for using English with someone older than me, possibly an uncle or a friend from the family.It was strange to greet the man in English when he arrived at our home after a long journey because my culture has a way of greeting people, but English does not.Therefore, I proceeded to inform my mother of his arrival in English, but somehow my translation of “O ti de” into “he has arrived” comes across as disrespectful.O ti de is used to refer to people who are the same age or younger.Given that the individual is significantly older than I am, the appropriate response would have been “Won ti de,” but guess what?Because the respectful word in question does not exist in English, “he has arrived” is still translated as “he has arrived” in both sentences.Even if I manage to translate, it won’t translate correctly because “they have arrived” would have meant that only one person arrived. The person I almost got in trouble with is a little bit illiterate when it comes to English, so I was able to escape his wrath on that particular day because people around helped me out and explained to him about the circumstances of my sentence.

People who aren’t familiar with my culture and society have a lot of questions about why someone who isn’t my parent is mad at me and trying to hurt me.They began asking inquiries like: What was it like to be a member of a cultural society?What is my language proficiency level?And a lot more. I’m originally from Nigeria, which is in West Africa.People in my cultural society, the Yoruba, believe that children are not raised by their parents alone and that society is responsible for their upbringing.Because of this cultural belief, almost anyone can discipline you.I usually speak two languages, but if you ask me how many I speak, I would say three.I know Yoruba, pidgin English, and English. What’s pidgin?Pidgin is a dialect of English with a different accent and pronunciation.In Africa, pidgin is a common dialect of broken English.Due to the fact that the words that make up pidgin come from English, it is not considered a language.But don’t make the mistake of thinking that English and pidgin are the same thing because pidgin cannot be understood or translated by people who only speak English.

Older generations, both literate and illiterate, believe that pidgin is bad language due to the fact that it is broken English and distinct from standard English.For a variety of reasons, standard English is more widely spoken in Nigeria than pidgin English. This is because pidgin English is spoken by both educated and illiterate people, as well as by the Yoruba Igbo and Hausa populations, while standard English is only spoken by educated people.This, in my opinion, is due to the influence of colonialism and the missionaries’ brainwashing.Until they lose it, people don’t take what they have seriously.I am fortunate to be able to speak pidgin because it is not taught in schools; in fact, it was outlawed in some homes and schools.The issue is that because they are unable to speak proper standard English, the poorest members of the population use this language the most.As a result, pidgin is regarded as a ghetto language that is only spoken and understood by the rotten apple of the population.

There is a specific method that adults in Yorubaland use to distract children or send them away without their knowledge.The term “Arodon” is typically used by adults when children start to disturb them or require their attention to be diverted.The majority of the time, a parent simply inserts word combinations containing Arodan.It’s done!Sending them errands to the market, store, neighbor, etc. could be an option.For instance, they might tell you to go get Arodan from the neighbor across the street.Even though most of the time (if not always), it is unrehearsed, it is interesting in that it resembles an arrangement.When a child asks for Arodan while you’re in your room, you just know they’ve been sent to stay with you for a while.After that, the delay methods will be used to ensure that the child is delayed regardless of their haste.In every circumstance, one acts in response to the mention of the Arodan sequence, which does not require prior arrangements or foretelling.For instance, if a father instructed his child to retrieve Arodan from the mother, the mother might delegate the task to someone else—perhaps the brother or sister who is familiar with the procedure—in the event that the mother is busy.It stands to reason that adults in Yorubaland are aware of this because they were also tricked, but they refuse to explain it to children because, culturally speaking, children are not expected to know about it. Instead, they will play it on children in retaliation because they will learn its factual nature as they grow up. Initially, I thought I would never pull this prank on my kids because it was done on me. However, over time, I have realized that adults enjoy the cultural prank because it is just too sweet to ignore.Therefore, my future children must be prepared for my prank, which will be unique and creative.

Ibrahim.Kuku

English 110. By.

Jorge Velez

Cover Letter

Dear Aniya.

I know it’s been a long time since we last spoke to each other, but I have been busy with my college work. Since we both finished high school, we both have opened a new chapter of our life, that is: you’ve been in a military boot camp training, and I am experiencing my first year of college. I have looked for ways to communicate with you without boring you, but there seems to be none because people in boot camp are not allowed to have an electronic communication device of any kind with them. But finally, I found out that I can still communicate with you in a letter. Therefore , I constructed a Rhetorical Analysis Essay to keep you and your friends entertained if you wish to share with them.

The following Essay you will be reading is a Rhetorical Analysis Essay I wrote about Amy Tan “mother Tongue”. I have tried my best as possible to make sure that the essay summary won’t bore you, as I hope that you can hear my exact voice as you read. The structure of my writing is organized into three different steps which make up the three different body paragraphs that are included in the essay. Before my writing, I structured the whole Amy Tan personal essay excerpt into three different ideas which I covered in my essay based on paragraphs. Reading my essay will also enlighten you to how Amy Tan uses rhetorical situations, most especially the different choices she chose to use and how she decided to import them.

I know that you must be pretty surprised that I am writing too much. You know that I don’t like writing and reading, as a matter of fact my sleeping pills is reading anything. But I am beginning to acknowledge that writing is fun. Writing gives a sense of knowledge from a broader view. As of now, I feel like writing different papers is improving my critical thinking to a level that I can find and relate to every single line of Amy Tan’s personal essay on a positive level and on a negative standard. 

Rhetorical Analysis Essay For Amy Tan

Amy Tan is a writer who is first generation Chinese American writer because she was born to Chinese immigrants.She wrote about her personal opinion of the English language and how it differs in different countries where English is spoken. Her personal interactions with her mother influenced her personal opinion. In her essay titled “Mother tongue,” Amy Tan discussed the language and literacy challenges that people around the world face. In particular, she discusses her realization of the many different varieties of English she spoke to different people, provides an instructive analysis of her mother’s experience with linguistics discrimination in the United States of America, and, lastly, she discusses how her mother’s level of language and literacy affected her education —which that can also apply to every immigrant child in the world.

Starting from paragraph one to seven (1-7), Amy Tan discusses the point of her life when she became aware of the different language she uses. She was at a large group giving an educational speech when she noticed that her mother was part of the audience, and she was speaking a totally different language that she would not have used at home. Amy Tan’s mother describes her mother’s English oral as broken therefore, using different varieties of vocabularies will surely give troubles for her mother’s understanding. In a public educative conversation, Amy Tan uses words like “The intersection of memory upon imagination” and “There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus” (paragraph 3) to communicate with people, on the other hand, she switches her sentences into the simplest form while speaking to her mother, and began to use phrase like “Not waste money that way.” (paragraph 4). The switch of language is something that always catches the audience’s attention. To appeal to the target audience which are the Immigrants related families, Amy uses a form of logos that is not obvious because as a daughter of an immigrant, it’s a simple fact that immigrant children switch to their native language or rhyme to the level of their parents language to  communicate whether in public or private.

Amy Tan is crucial in her mother’s journey through linguistic barrier. She starts out with more of her opinion in paragraphs 8 through 11 (8-11), where she mostly talks about her mother’s experience with linguistic discrimination and how they both get around the system. As a little kid with a standard English accent, Amy’s mother depended on Amy to speak on her behalf. On many occasions throughout both their lives, both the daughter and the mother would get into different roles where little kid Amy would have to speak in a strong adult deep voice of any gender on the behalf of her mother, while her mother would be underground telling heer what to say and sometimes yelling herself. Amongst many role plays they had together, the hospital real life experience stands out the most. In the experience, Amy’s mother went to the hospital for a follow up on a possible brain tumor, and when she got there, her mother spoke to them and they did not apologize when the hospital lost her scan result. The hospital “… did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT… they did not seem to have any sympathy…” (paragraph 11) Therefore, Amy’s mother insisted on the hospital speaking to her daughter, which they did call Amy, and the hospital “assurances the CAT scan would be found, … and apologies for any suffering…” (paragraph 11) caused to the mother. Amy specifically introduced the audience to this unhappy part of her life to provoke an emotional appeal of pathos. The ability of Amy Tan to import an unhappy event in a way that improves the fluency of the content while at the same time appealing to the audience’s understanding is just too perfect because it is a value that provides the audience the same level of clarity as the writer. For everyone, especially the audience, it’s very appealing and sad to see a kid going through an event that can impact their future negatively.

A kid’s future is determined early on as childhood. Amy Tan featured her last argument in paragraph twelve through nineteen (12-19). In her arguments, she logically proved the gloomy impact of her mother’s lack of standard English on her education. Amy Tan reveals that her mother language limits her ability to perform better in I.Q. test, SAT test e.t.c. her mother’s lack of standard English obstructs her ability to think, which ultimately limits her “possibilities in life as well.” (paragraph 12). Meanwhile, she prefers math and science tests because there is an answer that is not based on opinion, judgemental, and personal experience. Amy Tan said in her writing “But I have noticed in surveys – in fact, just last week-that Asian students, as a whole, always do significantly better on math achievement tests than in English.” (paragraph 15).Amy Tan uses a simple obvious logical fact to achieve her purpose of communicating to her audience. As a writer, the qualification of being an expert in writing is a value that the readers find convincing enough to attract them to a book, but also using rhetorical appeal of logical fact is something that the author utilizes to attract the reader’s mind. 

In conclusion, Amy Tan did not just utilize the use of different rhetorical devices but also used a form of Autorial structure to organize her personal experience into an essay, in which she employs to further discuss her issue of becoming aware of the various English dialects she uses when speaking to other people, Explaining how her mother was discriminated against because of her linguistic background in the United States of America, and talking on how her mother’s language and reading skills affected her schooling, which is relevant to all immigrant children around the world.

Name:Ibrahim

College: Queens college

Professor: Jorge Velez

Class: English 101

Cover letter

Dear Reader.

Many people think of language as a single structure that is only supposed to be spoken in a single way. But in reality, a single language can be divided into different structures which can consist of broken, accent, and dialect. In a population where the majority spoke the most common version of a language, they often created an invincible line of division. In my essay, I have researched the effect of language and literacy on the daily lives of United States residents, and used different varieties of evidence in my essay.

 As humans, we use language and literacy everyday to communicate different sort of negativity of the society with one another. But people really forget to discuss the negativity associated with language itself, which is part of the forces that guided my mind into choosing the topic “How have linguistic and literacy barriers harmed America and its residents?”. The world will discuss almost everything but they often do not discuss language and literacy too often. 

To understand and fully digest my investigation essay, one must fully understand some key words I inserted into my title “How have linguistic and literacy barriers harmed America and its residence?”. This title can be broken down into “language and literacy”, “effects”, and “america residents”. To me, I think it is very important for the audience to notice I said American residence instead of American citizens. This is because American residence includes everyone who lives in the United states, including immigrants who are yet considered citizens. This essay is filled with facts that are supported by peer-reviewed article sources.

The challenges  faced while writing this essay was that it was very hard to find a scholarly article that completely focused on the negative side of language and literacy. Most of the articles I found mostly focus on people learning English in the educational system, especially those of children who are still learning to speak. While the challenges made my essay educationally challenging, I also had some fun and strong areas that kept my essay on point. I was able to gather every information we discussed in class that may be useful to my work. Then I turned those information into ideas which I used to start off my paragraphs.

How have linguistic and literacy barriers harmed America and its residence?

The United States of America is a lovely country that accommodates immigrants from all countries around the globe. Many of these immigrants in the United states are often here because of one reason or the other. According to the US immigration law center, it is said that Some immigrants flood into the US because of better education, escaping hardship, political asylum, opportunities and many more. As these people come from different backgrounds escorted by their different language and literacy levels, it’s quite ironically compelling that people looking for better opportunities might be faced with a new set of challenges which may end up taking away the opportunities they have made so much sacrifice to achieve. A linguistic question dealing with cause and effects requires critical thinking, if one is to take a strong stand. Linguistic and language barriers is a natural force of occurrence that denies people of different accent and dialogue within a language or completely different language the opportunities they very-much have the right to achieve. The negative effects of linguistic barriers can be demonstrated on every sectional level that nature might envision. I strongly believes that Linguistic and literacy hardships are a part of a bigger system of language and literacy discrimination, which denies people’s different opportunities like job opportunities, healthcare opportunities, education opportunity. As a matter of fact, people who don’t fit well into the social level of standard English are downgraded in almost every aspect of life, because society thinks that the only way to be successful is through the standard English being taught in the educational system.

For starters, it might not be obvious how language and literacy barricades have harmed people. As part of a social cause, the standard of English the public requires people to speak just makes it absolutely hard for people who don’t perfectly fit into “standard english” by definition to be left out of social socialization. The point of view about language and literacy effect will also be studied through the scope view of two individuals, Amy Tan, and Safwat Saleem who use different methods to collectively communicate the harm of language and literacy on human confidence. Amy Tan is a first generation Chinese American writer. She wrote about her personal opinion of the English language and how it differs in different countries where English is spoken. Her personal interactions with her mother influenced her personal opinion. In her essay titled “Mother tongue,” Amy Tan discussed the language and literacy challenges that people around the world face. In particular, she provides an instructive analysis of her mother’s experience with linguistics discrimination in the United States of America, and she discusses how her mother’s level of language and literacy affected her socialization with people. There was a point where Amy’s mother went to the hospital for a follow up on a possible brain tumor, and when she got there, her mother spoke to them and they did not apologize when the hospital lost her scan result. The hospital “… did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT… they did not seem to have any sympathy…” (Tan) Therefore, Amy’s mother insisted on the hospital speaking to her daughter, which they did call Amy, and the hospital “assurances the CAT scan would be found, … and apologies for any suffering…” (Tan) caused the mother. Still how does language and literacy affect Tan and her mother? What is the relationship? According to “mother tongue”, Tan mother speaks broken English and could not compete on the same standard as folk communicating with standard english. Therefore many people use that opportunity to limit her by making her think she is not capable enough to represent and express herself. On the other hand, Safwat Saleem is a pakistani- american visual artist. On TEDTalk, he discussed how he is constantly challenging the notion of normalcy by discussing how people were not very nice about his accent in the project he was working on. Safwat was working on an educational video about video games, and when he posted the first part of his accomplishments, the first few comments were encouraging until he started receiving hateful comments like “Could you remake this without peanut butter in your mouth?… Please don’t use this narrator again u can barely understand him”. (Saleem 2:42-2:56) Saleem was looked down upon by his accent. Society thinks his ability wasn’t good enough by judging his linguistic ability. Society has created a norm of normalcy that seems to hurt people who doesnt fit in the circlewhich is bad enough but in addition, they make them feel crazy and stupid for the way they speak.

Many scholars have spoken about language and literacy’s effect on people. Betsy A. Bowen and June Jordan are individual professionals at their craft work who have focused on different aspects of linguistics and literacy that may have devalued people’s chances of success. Betsy A. Bowen is the solo author who wrote a scholarly article about levels of literacy in the United state on a rate of one to five. She claims that there is a direct relationship between literacy and income of individuals which collectively contribute to the economic status of a nation. In one of her scholarly articles titled “Four puzzles in adult literacy: Reflections on the National Adult Literacy Survey”, she proved that  

Approximately 43% of those scoring in Level 1 lived in poverty; only 4% to 6% of those scoring in Level 5 did. Among adults as a whole, income increased consistently as literacy skills increased… In fact, all measures of economic success – rate of full-time employment, number of weeks worked, weekly earnings, and interest earned from savings ac- counts – increased as literacy skills increased… (318)

Betsy A. Bowen proved her claim with a survey given to people as a test to take which she then used the statistics gathered from the literacy test conducted by herself to make a pattern. The purpose of her research is to educate the reader on every aspect of literacy she has tested people on by laying down the statistical facts she has gathered. Unlike Betsy who uses logic to prove the effect of linguistic and literacy discrimination, june jordan is another interesting female individual who wrote about experience, and uses her class lecture as example in her writing. June Jordan was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist who is widely known for her exploration of global issues like gender, immigration, race, and representation. She wrote about how “White standards of English persist, supreme and unquestioned, in these United States. Despite our multilingual population…” (Jordan) and diversity in the country. Depict the land belonging to the native americans, with different variety of their native languages, standard English have now come to be previewed as the language that undo other languages because “White standards control our official and popular judgments of verbal proficiency and correct, or incorrect, language skills, including speech”. (Jordan) . June Jordan’s writing brought to light about the rare fact that standard English is wiping out other languages out of existence. This is an obvious effect of language wiping out other languages, but people seem not to realize it because we paid no attention to language and literacy.  

In conclusion, I have come to believe that language and literacy discrimination have hurt our society in many ways that we can imagine. Some of the negative effects are directly caused by language and literacy while other demerits happen indirectly. One big issue of  Language and literacy is that it not just takes away opportunities from people, but also serves as a force of separation among people. For example, people who received education from an English speaking continent like Africa found it harder to use their graduate educational level to find a better job in the US because the educational standard English system in the United states does not permit them. Therefore, the supremacy of Standard English hurts people due to the fact that it makes other languages, and dialects look useless.

Work Cited Page

• Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.” Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers, edited by Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford, 7th ed., Pearson, 2010, pp.34-44

https://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/Mother%20Tongue%20by%20Tan.pdf

• Saleem, S. (2016, July 7). Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent [Video]. TED Talks. https://www.ted.com/talks/safwat_saleem_why_i_keep_speaking_up_even_when_people_mock_my_accent?utm_campaign=tedspread
• Bowen, Betsy A. “Four Puzzles in Adult Literacy: Reflections on the National Adult Literacy Survey.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, vol. 42, no. 4, 1998, pp. 314–23. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40013518. Accessed 29 Nov. 2022.
• Jordan, J. (n.d.). Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordan – English 110 to Clone. https://engl110ccny1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/content/june_jordan/

Name: Ibrahim kuku

Class: English 110

Professor: Jorge Velez

Self-Assessment Essay

I was an International Baccalaureate (I.B) student during my highschool days. As a student that was automatically enrolled in the toughest and by far the most stressful international education program in the world, it made me feel a little bit special in a way that I thought I was invincible to writing. I am definitely one of the few smart people who unfortunately did not qualify for the IB diploma, but the program is not just offering the diploma alone, but also offering practice on now to handle college work, including the readings, the writings, e.t.c. One fun fact about me is that I hate reading to the extent that reading is my sleeping medication…  for a moment I will be awake, active, and fine, and my brain feels tired the second I start reading. On the other hand, writing is more of a choice that I prefer even though I won’t say I am perfect in my writing. In the beginning of my English 110 class, I wasn’t looking forward to learning anything new. My expectation is to just start writing whenever an essay is assigned to me because I was in a state of mind in which I deceived myself that I know absolutely everything that I needed to have at least on level Essay. A state of mind in which I always decide to stick with the same writing structure of MEAL (main idea, evidence, analysis, and link) I learned since 9th grade freshman year. To think about it now from an advanced point of view, I think it’s possible that I am just not ready to leave my comfort zone of what I already know about writing, or my subconscious crawls into an inactive, lazy mode that keeps me away from exploring other means of writing. Over the short period of time I have spent in English 110 class, I can prove that I have improved my writing skills to a great extent because I have learned more about writing like cover letters, rhetorical precis, academic summaries, the use of synthesis,  and many more techniques.

My first essay this semester for English 110 was titled Written Language & literacy Narrative. The essay is about writing about anything related to literacy and language. In my case, I wrote about my native language which is Yoruba. The format I used was very advantageous to me because I speak english and yoruba, therefore all i did was to compare how yoruba language, culture and tradition is different to that of english language. To be specific, most of my writing involves how yoruba words don’t translate the same to show respect and discipline when converted to english. Throughout my entire life of writing, this was the first step of me realizing that there is more to writing an essay than just writing. With this writing, I was also asked to include a cover letter which was very hard for me to do at first because I only think of a cover letter in terms of job resume and job application. In reality, this was easy with the guideline I followed. I figured out that a cover letter is just a pure writing of what I want the reader to know about my writing before reading, or a piece of writing that will provide clarity to the audience. After the first cover letter, I have written other cover letters but the difference is that they don’t scare me or provide challenges as my first time did.

As a part of learning during my first semester, the plan of my English professor is to learn little by little, which will then add up to make an overall outcome. After learning about cover letters, I was expected to make a cover letter for every single essay that comes after the language & linguistic Narrative Essay. The next important part of writing I learn is rhetorical precision, and Academic summary. The purpose of rhetorical precision is to build up a perfect Academic summary of sources. In some cases, before the learning of rhetorical precis, I make use of rhetorical precis in a non perfect way without me knowing the format I am using. But as I was introduced to the rhetorical precision of writing, It became clearer that I was able to see some familiarity in terms of my introduction of author name and background while writing a paper, and I was able to improve on this part as well. Before writing my researched essay, I wrote a rhetorical precis draft for amy tan that reads:

Amy Tan is a first generation Chinese American who wrote about her personal opinion of

the English language and how it differs in different countries where English is spoken using her

personal interactions with her mother which influenced her personal opinion. She supports this

by using different scenarios she goes through. She used her mother’s broken English as a form of

evidence to support her claim. Initially, her purpose is to inform the world the struggles language

and literacy discrimination has caused to the people affected.

In the rhetorical precise example drafted, the breakdown includes the content the author is writing about , support of the contents, then filled by the purpose of the author, and then lastly the relationship of the author and the intended audience. In a similar format but different notation, rhetorical analysis is also a form of writing that I knew but made perfect when I wrote my second essay for this semester in English 110 called Researched essay. With a researched essay, the analysis makes up the majority of the whole essay because it is mostly about deeply analyzing scholarly and other types of sources. 

After learning about rhetorical precis and making use of it in my writing, the next writing tool I also learn and use in my essay is called synthesis. Synthesis is the art of connecting two or more similar but different pieces of evidence together to prove a point in the same paragraph with high level fluency and sensibility. While using my meal form of writing body paragraphs, it doesn’t teach me how to connect two pieces of evidence together in a single paragraph which is where synthesis comes in. Normally, I like to use more than one evidence in my paragraphs but I usually use different evidence from the same authors/book. With the practice of synthesis, I was able to connect two rhetorical precis together to make one big paragraph that supports a claim without disrupting the fluency.

My writing has developed in many different aspects. It has developed by increasing my level of creativity in my paragraphs. For example, starting from the making of a cover letter, to the implementation of rhetorical precis, then to the use of synthesis, connect two precis together. I also learn to use rhetorical choice to connect and analyze my evidence. Overall, I think I have come a long way to achieve different styles of writing which I very much appreciate because it has upgraded the way I write from high school essay writing to college level writing standard.