Overall+Reflection


 * __Overall Reflection__**

I learned so much in AP English. It helped me communicate and present my ideas in a more persuasive and complex point of view. Before I took the class I only had facts. I'd persuade

people with only a logical point of view. Previously, I didn't like to appeal to an emotional standpoint because I believed it was ineffective and degrading, but the reason it wasn't effective

is because i was creating emotion the wrong way. I would give blatant emotional examples without creating a bond with the audience. Due to this lack of connection, the audience would

immediately throw up a wall because their reaction is "He's trying to persuade me. I better make sure he doesn't." The only way to slip past this wall is to create a connection by using

subtle words such as "we" and "us" and by using examples that your audience can connect to. I never really had an idea about what to do when persuading someone other than to throw

facts at them. Now I know that I need to focus on proving how my controversial subject matters and why it will affect something the audience cares about by using clear examples to

explain and elaborate the subject. After you present an adequate argument, you must then address the counter argument by giving counter examples to clearly explain also. Overall, you

have to connect back to your main thesis. This is basically what I learned in AP English....just about everything there is to correctly argue a subject. Now I just need to practice.

To specifically target my writing, I need to work on connecting my ideas to a clear purpose and universal idea. I always leave off the tone and universal idea. I need to talk about how my

examples create the tone which proves whatever idea which will then affect the world in whatever way. That is what I need to work on. Focus on proving the tone. Then connect the tone

to how it proves the idea. And then how that idea will affect the world.