Reading/Writing Journal Entry 2
Hi everyone, I'm back with another update on my writing and rhetoric class. I just finished up my second project and my first paper for this class. This was more of a struggle than the first project, but swapping my sanity for caffeine and balancing this project with a number of assignments for my other classes, I got it done. The second big project that we had to do was a rhetorical analysis of an article of our choice. This project was all learning, in the sense, that everything I did was new to me. The style, the type of writing, the formatting everything. The only consistency I knew was how to read an article and take notes on it to throw some words together for a project. The article that I chose to read was "All Writing is Autobiography" by Donald Murray. In this 1991 article, he discusses his opinion that writing, no matter what form it is in, is all autobiographical. He found out in a study that most authors write about experiences they went through before the a...