Question: How does earning a college degree impact the outcome of an individual in the United States?

When exploring the assignment description, I was originally unsure of what I wanted to write about considering the variety of topics we are able to choose from. However, I decided to focus on subjects that relate to me as an individual in the United States. As a freshman in college, the impact a college education has on someone’s life is a question I can ask myself today. In addition, there are millions of teenagers and young adults around the country who most likely have this exact question in mind as they plan to attend a college or university. Current college students who are unsure of what careers to pursue may also have this question in mind as they continue their education.

The idea of going to college is seen as a traditional next step in a students’ education around the United States after completing high school. Obtaining a college degree has been taught as a necessity for an individual to “succeed” in their future. This idea was consistently brought up throughout our education as we grew older and closer to the completion of high school. From teachers to our own parents or family, society has encouraged us to pursue a career through college because it will ultimately benefit us and our future. By further exploring this question through research, I will compare and contrast the various perspectives that individuals have towards the college education system. Furthermore, I will explore the statistical outcomes of having a degree as well as the impact of not having a college education. This is not a simple yes or no question about college, but rather a question that explores the many viewpoints society has about this matter.

Rape is one of the worst social issues in our world, which is now seen as a constant in the headlines of daily newspapers. I have chosen this topic so that people in our society have concerned about this issue. Now, I have so many questions in my mind about this topic. But I think these two questions are best. Also, I am a little bit confused about which one I should use. So, my first question is Appetite for rape: Whence can parents let their daughters out? And my second question is Yet how many more incompetent girls have to commit suicide, just from some cruel beasts of sexual intercourse without her willing?  Last week, I was watching the news channel of my country where a teenager was raped and killed by a gang. Now all over the nation are protesting for justice. So, my relatives called and discussed this issue with us. They are too scared to let their daughters go outside alone. I was wondering at that moment when girls could easily go outside and lead their lives like a man. That’s how I came up with my first question. Even there are so many incidences where girls commit to suicide because of sexual intercourse. They take their lives because they don’t get justice sometimes. I think this is important to increase more awareness about this issue. We need to make sure that our daughters, sisters are safe not only inside but also outside of our nation. In my research, I will explore more about self-protection from rape, seeking justice, family support, more duty.

When I think about writing, I think of brainstorming ideas that need to be separated and organized to create a giant masterpiece worthy of convincing a worldwide audience. In the beginning, When I wrote my essay, I forgot about my audience and the effect I wanted to evoke in them, making my paper look weak or less developed compared to others in terms of organization and analysis. Contradicting everything I thought I knew about writing was differentiating what the author is doing from what the author is saying. I used some strategies to focus on what the author was doing rather than what he was saying. Every time I read a paragraph, I stopped and thought, “ok, so what is the author trying to evoke in me?” and even though I couldn’t explain in the way I wanted to be in the paper. I never lost track of what I was reading. Another strategy I used was to try to connect the text’s purpose with the audience to see how they are related, and in some of the cases, it helps me continue when I stuck in a sentence or an idea. After analyzing my first draft, I realize how bad it was my analysis level because I couldn’t organize my thoughts, ending up with a summary for each article or video. As a priority, while reviewing my final draft, I tried to make sure I could get something better out of the first analysis. I start focusing more on rhetorical analysis than the summary, which helped me develop a better well-organized draft.

When I think of writing I think about writing down all my ideas and elaborating as much as possible. I know sometimes that can hurt you when your writing essays because you have to respond to a prompt or argue a text. But I just love when I get to write about topics that relate to me. Who doesn’t love to free write ? I feel like that’s when you get to see the authors viewpoint or tone. But with these new methods and strategies involved with writing that I am learning, it’s a little bit challenging. Especially for me since I’m used to writing a certain type of way, but you know as I got to college my writing style has definitely changed for the better.

So during this assignment I tried organizing everything before the draft and the final. Like I drew out a outline of all my sources and the important ideas I wanted to highlight when I type it. Additionally, I also reread and scanned my articles. I used a new strategy that I never did when writhing papers and that is widen my search span, I used to think google had everything. But when I searched in the CUNY database and the libraries for book and articles there was just something that clicked for me. While writing the draft I never really worked with stance, and genre. So I think that tripped me up. Also I felt there were times I was being repetitive, so I have to work on that. So I know In the future I will definitely be using the CUNY database for reliable sources. I feel like it was successful, Although I will be using other strategies in the future for writing papers. I may have to alter my strategy just a little because it’s all over the place, and not working efficiently as I want it to be. This essay was a great start for me learning types of writing and why we use it in our papers. I look forward to see the next essay.

I believe writing is a beautiful way of expressing your thoughts in a paper when sometime no one wants to hear. I was eager to write about abortion and learn so many things along the way. It felt like becoming an expert in the field. At first, I was rushed to find the sources which I thought would make things more difficult but it turned out perfectly. The rhetorical analysis helped me understand what the author is trying to project and inform. I really liked the feedback part. I received feedback from a student and the professor, which was very helpful since I was not knowledgeable of some recurring mistakes I made throughout the paper. This contradicted what I knew and what I learned when writing this essay. I learned that I tend to write very long sentences that then make my argument unclear. I also thought it was really stressful because the essay requires a lot of focus and time. It took me three or four days to finish this essay when normally it takes only one. The strategies I took were bullet points, shortcuts, explaining one thing at the time, googling questions. I would analyze the article into all categories of rhetorical analysis. Also, something I did that was helpful was, googling some questions about rhetorical analysis to have as a reference when writing.  The process was great, but I always felt in stress to finish the assignments since the class is asynchronous. I would say the process worked for me, although I felt slightly rushed when writing which made things stressful for me. 

In my opinion writing is one of the best ways to express ourselves. It gives us the total freedom to get creative and put our thoughts out. Usually I write down my own thoughts about the topic and try to go from there. It gives me the chance to understand the topic much better and helps me put things together in a better way. However, it became much more difficult as I had some issues with my draft.Writing this essay without any feedback became a lot more difficult than I anticipated. However, it became better after working with one of the articles because it gave me a better understanding for the next three. I am still not sure about the genre because I don’t think I explained it correctly. However, the topic I chose gave me much better feeling about the writing because it is something I can relate to. As a Muslim I have been in many situations where people questioned and made fun of my belief. It is an ongoing problem that has been going on for a very long time. However, This assignment was a great start for me to learn different type of writing. I look forward to improving my writing skills.

I assume writing is a means of connecting with others to share the thoughts and conclusions toward such things. This helps our audience to gain awareness via our work because it is part of another way of expressing our voice. In my opinion, good writing relies on good skills that we can learn through practice. First, before I began writing my essay, I made a plan on how to start and finish it. It’s so important to the audience because the audience loses its interest if the start wasn’t successful. Then I worked on my body part of my essay, and I felt this is the most complicated part for me. On the first attempt, I knew that not everything would be flawless but my friends helped me so much on the peer review. They shared their ideas and helped me to devolve my essay. I had a great issue with grammar and punctuation from my childhood. But I think this essay writing will build up my grammar as well as my punctuation skills because I had to find the best articles that fit my criteria. As a result, I had to read so many articles and that helped me to overcome this situation. Another strategy that I used to write this essay is that before I start to write my essay I read the sample essays and follow their best strategies. Finally, this essay writing taught me a great deal to realize my shortcomings, and also how to strengthen them through practice and hard work. It helped me to progress my writing after the peer-reviewed process and my group guidance, which allowed me to get to know more about my writing quality.

I believe that writing is one of the most effective ways of expressing one’s point of view. After learning about rhetorical situations and sources it taught me how often writing is created in response of a certain event that was happening during that time. It fit with what I already know because authors were able to put their thoughts and perspectives onto paper and influence and educate students and people all around the world. However, I only thought that a piece of text is only written with the thought of the author in mind, however, when finding rhetorical sources I found out that there are writings that are consisted of other people’s writings. A piece of writing doesn’t necessarily need to reflect on the point of view of an individual but it can also be informative and including both sides of an argument.

When writing the rhetorical essay a strategy that I often used was providing examples for each claim that was made. In addition, for the examples, I would have to provide evidence that is given in the text. This was successful because I was able to use the sources to expand on my topic. However, if I were to write another rhetorical essay I need to keep in mind how I can expand and elaborate on a topic I am writing about. Also, when writing the rhetorical essay I found out how important it is you understand what the author is trying to say to you. I was having trouble differentiating between purpose and stance and it is important to understand why the author is writing something and what he/she thinks about the topic he/she is writing about.

I think writing is a way for people to communicate, and persuade their ideas to another person whether or not they will understand it is up to how well the writing is. A few things that I learned are the MLA citing formatting which includes a bit more information than I originally know of. There isn’t really any strategies at least to my knowledge that I’ve used. I kind of just went into it and typing out what I think I needed to convey in my essay while following the requirements such as summary, rhetorical situation, audience, and so on. This process worked quite well but a few of the rhetorical analyses were confusing at times and it felt like I couldn’t really write a whole lot about it. Some of these include the genre of the sources which confused me greatly because it was quite simple and hard in the sense that you couldn’t really type a whole lot about it. Two more things that confused me were the rhetorical situation and purpose, both of which felt very similar in its function to the essay at least to me so it felt repetitive during and after the writing process. The stance is also something I had never written about before so it was a new experience in trying to write about it for each of the sources. I do think, however, I had pulled it off somewhat, it’s not perfect as I had wanted it but if I had to reconsider my approach I would definitely have planned the whole thing out more carefully and taken the time to really understand the requirements.

I believe writing is a form in which individuals can freely express themselves in any way they desire. Writing allows people to fully utilize their creativity to the full extent. We can learn the perspectives of people through their writing. What I learned when writing this essay is that rhetorical analysis is a great tool in writing because it allows individuals to influence their audience using a specific style of writing. It helps readers understand how certain authors write their text and the methods they employ throughout their writing. The strategies I used to approach this assignment is to find credible sources for my topic and find good evidence. This process did work for me as I managed to find trustworthy articles that managed to have good evidence. Also, in my essay, my approach was to write a good rhetorical analysis of the article. Initially, the process didn’t work because my analysis was lacking and I failed to tackle some of the rhetorical components such as audience and genre. However, after the review, I got from my peers and my professor I started to fix my errors. I had a better understanding of what genre really is as well as the various types of genres. I also had a better understanding of the certain types of audiences my article was written for as I failed to go in detail in my first draft. I felt that I had improved my rhetorical analysis of the article as well as having better elaboration and selection of my quotes. I learned a lot while writing this essay mainly by having a thorough analysis of the information of my articles and tackling the major components of the rhetorical analysis.