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.