Wednesday, May 27, 2015

TOW #28 Reflection

During the TOW cycles, I have noticed myself progressively moving away from using pathos, logos, and ethos as devices on their own. Instead, I have gotten better at explaining how different devices affect these points without explicitly mentioning them. This assignment really helped break me out of that mindset from the beginning of the year. I also tried to choose different kinds of texts to help prepare for the exam. I read essays, articles, and reviews, watched commercials, and looked at ads. I did sometimes try to find texts about topics I have little to no interest in so I could also be ready in that sense.

                While I paid attention to these things, I do feel like my organization was often lacking. A lot of the time, I was not pre-writing or even thinking about how to organize my analysis. I would just try to get what I had to say written, and because of this, the ideas did not flow as well as they could have. However, the TOW assignment made the analysis part of the AP exam easier and more natural. It made me that much more confident going into it knowing that I had been analyzing text for the whole year, and not just at the beginning. These posts have definitely served their purpose.

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