1) As a writer, what Procedural Strategies have you been developing, and might you use these in project three (and beyond)? Procedural strategies are 'writing and reading processes'. We've been talking about writing as a recursive process(including processes of topic selection, brainstorming, reading, researching, pre-writing, invention questions, drafting, arranging/organizing, peer-reviewing, receiving feedback, revising, editing, and proofreading).

I have been developing a lot of pre writing. With a lot of my papers in the past I don't do rough drafts but with project one I really saw why I needed a rough draft. Just really being organized too, with all my writing and ideas really helps me. I will defiantly continue to use both of these strategies. 

What steps do you value (or are you starting to value) as a writer and why? Consider both steps we've gone through in class, and steps outlined in Good Reasons. Give us an example of a writing process that you've recently used and find useful (though you may reflect on how you will re-tool or re-think this process in future use).

I really liked the step of criticing myself. Just going through the questions in class and using them towards my paper. I really think that with that step I can sucessfully look at my paper and see what I need to fix.

2) What Conceptual Strategies have you been developing?

Key concepts we've used to develop your writing include:

• Seeing writing (of others, and your own) within an active rhetorical situation, and
• We've been thinking about our writing and reading as something classically identified as rhetorical.
• as having a clearly identifiable purpose (your objectives)
• specifically raising questions about your purpose the genre (analysis, argument),
• assessing your audience's needs, their beliefs, and their (NEW) discourse communities
• considering the flexible categories of persuasive tools, including how authors build ethos (usually either by establishing their credibility, creating or relying on their character, or connecting with a larger cultural ethos, or 'spirit of an age'), logos (the structures of reasoning, the kinds of evidence, the logic, and how any of these are used) pathos (the range of emotional appeals created by authors), kairos (the right thing at the right time), enthymemes (used to see lines of reasoning that are making assumptions for readers to fill in)

Tell us where you effectively thought through these concepts in projects one or two

(CITE your own writing).

My whole first paper really took the logos, pathos, and ethos of the mac commercial and really used the rhetorical tools when analyzing the commercials. The whole paper had a paragraph for just ethos, pathos, and logos. With assessing the audiences needs I feel like I really failed that portion of the paper in my second project . But I feel will definitely  use it with my third project.

3) Since you can write several arguments about almost any subject, to almost any group of people, ask yourself (anew): what would you like to write about for project 3, project 4 (evaluating a problem: a human, social, institutitional, economic, environmental, civic,... problem) and project 5 (proposing a persuasive solution to that problem). Project 4 and 5 can be on the same topic.

Well this is a hard question. They're are so many problems in society but very little solutions I can think of that would help these problems. I would like to take all 3 projects and write about the same issue so I could maybe do something about them in society.  I would really like to talk about the ignorance of society and how it is affecting us as a country and propose something to move foward with, 

4) Who would you like to write to in the future (in this class OR at any point IN THE FUTURE). Can you think of other rhetorical situations or discourse communities in your lives (academic, personal, or professional) where you either will be or would like to put your skills to use?

I would like to write to Marielle. I would actually like to write to the chair of the Theater Department. Working at the Bonstelle Theater, our light crew has made a significant difference in the way that the theater is presented and how we work together. The problem is not only does our work not get recognized but we also arent aloud to make certain changes to our theater department. A lot of the changes at Wayne State or just in the theater department are often thought of with no true thought behind it. I would like to write to them on how we can change it.