Monday, May 17, 2010
Comp 2
The rhetorical analysis was significantly more difficult than composition one. In composition one I could express my emotions and thoughts that I wanted to audience to see and feel. On the other hand, in composition two it was hard to portray what the author wanted to and put in words. What do you think? How did you show it? I used narrator, speech, thought bubbles and illustrations as the strategies used by the author. I supported that each strategy help show how is mood, message, and thoughts. However, a problem arose when I repeatedly stated the most important events in my comic throughout my paper. Does anyone else have this problem? Should I add not so significant frames? What did everyone else do? I didn’t have a problem with the length of the assignment but, I don’t know if it could just be the repetition. Did anyone condense their paper to fill in with extra strategies or did you give greater detail to a select few?
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Composition 2 did turn out to be a difficult task to complete. It wasnt that I had never been asked to do a rhetorical analysis paper, it was hte fact that analyzing a graphic memoir was so much different than anything than I have ever done. There is just som uch to look out for as far as rhetorical moves that I felt like I may have been forgetting something. Once I sat down and got a good handle on hte assignment I was able to meet the requirements successfully but it was a tough assignment all in all
ReplyDeleteComposition two was by far harder than composition one, and I would agree I think it's the personal factor in that. The rhetorical analysis required critical thinking and almost trying to get into the mind of the author. The one thing I think was lacking in my analysis was the absence of a bulk of knowledge on the author, which I reviewed a little just to get an idea of the style of person he/she was and I think that really helped out in analyzing their text.
ReplyDeleteproviding a rhetorical analysis of your own work was significantly easier because you are well aware of your motives in constructing the memoir, regardless of whether or not those intentions were achieved. Even if they weren't it provided us with the platform to explain the moves we made. So it was this insider awareness that contributed to its ease and certainly its absence that made the formulation of argument and thereby construction of composition 2 more difficult.
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