Rhetorical Analysis

When I was told we would be writing a Rhetorical Analysis paper I was not really sure about what to expect. I have had prior experiences with analyzing and doing an essay on a piece of writing, but I have never taken this particular approach. As with everything, there is a lot o f room for improvement in my paper. I hardly ever expect my first draft to even be considered good. Although I do try to do well on my first draft, but I feel that the main purpose of the first draft is to get your thoughts and ideas out there. Something that I feel I can really take from this paper is not only to do well on my final draft, but to take my time and perhaps put more effort and thought into what I am writing. This will more than likely help me a considerable amount on my final draft, therefore, making the final draft a better paper.

Not only should I put forth more of my attention to the rough draft, but I probably could have invested more time and thought into the final draft as well. As a result of this I was not extremely satisfied with how my paper turned out.First of all, it had quite a few gramatical mistakes. Had I put more time and attention into my paper I would not have had as many silly mistakes as I did. I feel like I should have put more of myself into the paper and not everything that I was trying to say in the paper was not stated as clearly as it should have or could have been.

While writing this paper I have learned that I need to go into more depth with the analysis. I have learned to try to look for a deeper meaning within the paper,something besides the first and most obvious themes. I certainly could have done better on going into deeper, more specific concepts that the author is attempting to get the reader to understand. I had a lot of ideas about what the author may have been trying to say through the story.

Something that I really liked about my paper is that I tried to look at multiple meanings for certain events that occured in the story. However, I am not so sure that it was the best approach, because it seems to me that there are some ideas in my paper that should be better organized. Perhaps, as I suggested before, I could have put more time into the paper so it could have been more organized. Furthermore, my transitions from one topic to the next were a little weak and needed more ideas that flow together instead of jumping from one item to the next.

For the most part I think my paper was not bad. I think I have a lot of good ideas within the paper. However, I was not totally satisfied with my final draft or the grade that I got on it. Like I said, it is not a bad paper at all, but I know that as a writer I can do much better than the work I did on this paper. On my next paper I will strive to write it better and invest more of my time, thought, and attentionto it so that I will be satified with the final product.

Allegory and Banking Concept

In the stories by Freire and Plato, both represent the idea of knowlege and how it is obtained by discussing the student teacher relationship.The banking concept, addressed my Freire, suggests that teachers are all knowing simply because they are the authority figures, and that the students are basically ignorant because they do not have the same knowlege as the teacher. The most systematic approach to learning seems to be the technique in which the teacher gives the student information and that they should memorize and trust in everthing the teacher is telling them. It suggests that the teachers should possibly be more open to the concept of letting the students branch out to learn and experiment with their creativity by thinking critically, not just memorizing. Students can memorize nearly anything without actually any of the material.

By using this memorization method to teach the student, had they not truly learned anything, will not know what to expect or even how to deal with real life situations. Plato uses somewhat similar ideas that Freire does. Both essays infer that the ones gaining knowledge are partly limited by their teacher and what theteacher is trying to teach the students. Plato suggests that the teacher can learn from the students as well and that the students are not ignorant. In allowing the students to critically think and express themselves they can teach others and themselves better than using the memorization method.

However, everyone has to be open to having more than just one right answer to a question. If one is not open minded to other thuoghts and ideas how is one to expand their horizons and think more critically and realistically? Each person should attempt to look multiple points of view. although, one is ultimately the only person who can be responsible for determining what is the "truth" or "fact" for themselves.