Essay On Social Justice

This semester I took the English 160 course “Writing in Academic and Public Contexts: Social Justice.” This English course was focused on rhetorical writing and social awareness in Chicago. In the beginning of the course, we discussed what “justice” meant for us. Additionally, we spent a significant amount of time on how to appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos. These appeals were highly important to our writing skills in order to persuade others to take our viewpoint on a certain topic. Throughout the course, we spent time developing our writing skills with several drafts, which were edited by our peers and professor. With this process, I was able to be more aware of my grammatical errors but was also able to improve as a writer.

The second writing assignment that we were assigned was a speech about “What is justice? Is America a just country?” For this writing assignment, we looked at many speeches that included the works of Martin Luther King Jr, Sojourner Truth, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Wallace. When reading these speeches we needed to
My argumentative essay was titled “Health Disparities.” I focused on a social issue in Chicago, specifically in the South and West Sides. I took the position that health disparities are a major threat to social justice in Chicago. I had to make the paper’s tone formal. Furthermore, I also had to make sure I used scholarly sources and quotations that supported my claim. However, I needed to include a counterclaim to make my paper stronger. Having a counterclaim made my paper stronger because it shows how I did not just focus on one side of the argument, but also saw the opposing side. In order to write a compelling argumentative essay, I had incorporated rhetorical appeals. I used logos and ethos to add credibility to my paper. I enjoyed researching about health disparities, mostly because it deals with health care topics, which is a field I am very interested