Blog #10

This semester in Dual-English, our professor focused on rhetoric. With that, we wrote an argumentative essay and a proposal with a group. That being said, rhetoric in a paper is not very different than a proposal. In a paper, you write in a way where you’re telling the reader facts and arguing for your point. Moreover, in a proposal you also write in a similar fashion. However, in a proposal you are also doing a lot of describing. Instead of using a majority of other articles to argue for a point, in a proposal you are describing your view of a project and using other examples to support your point, not carry.

With COVID-19 in full-swing, I have been stuck at home. Because of that, I have been watching a lot of YouTube. In YouTube ads, I’ve noticed they start with concise and relatable sentences to pull in the viewer. This method of rhetoric is very effective in marketing, because humans are lazy and skip long unrelatable ads.

This week, I used rhetoric to convince my parents my room is not as bad as it looks. I know I have an incredibly messy room; however, I told my parents my friends have messy rooms as well. I then continued with the fact that my friends don’t care about how messy my room is. Finally, I finished with saying that no one is coming over due to COVID-19 anyways. It successfully got my parents off of my back. Periodt. (This was misspelled on purpose.)