My Writing Style Reflection

To be honest, I have always used my emotions when I write, whether it is for a hobby or for my work in college. My emotions have always helped me push through assignments that I considered difficult and taking a position on projects that required me to take a side. However, my emotional style of writing was not able to overcome this new style of writing that my rhetorical communications professor introduced to me. I will admit it, I did get aggravated in the beginning of the class because this kind of writing was unfamiliar to me. But I began to broaden my horizons on how I write and properly communicating my own ideas which led me to develop my theory of writing through four major assignments that was given to me. The theory of writing that I have developed over the semester involves adapting my writing style in order to fit what is required for the paper. What this means is that my writing style is constantly changing rather than being fixed on only one style of writing. Due to my
There were terms that I struggled to understand such as logos, pathos, ethos, and discourse community since I was never taught those terms in high school but this was the first time I encountered those terms. As I reflected on this first project, I was reminded in my interview with Mike Staub of what was needed for the criminal justice major in order to communicate properly. Mike told me that the kind of writing that was required for the criminal justice major is factual based rather than the writing being more emotional based, which I preferred. But, this project helped me understand that my emotionally charged writing would only make me struggle in understanding what was needed for both my criminal justice major and the remainder of the writing that I have to do in the