sara santarelli ch4

This chapter was dedicated to composing essays with personal experiences. I realized there are many conflicting differences when writing for college and writing for life. When writing for college conventions must be used, as learned in the first chapter. On the other hand, while writing for life, is more lenient and focused personally. When the author explained thinking about visuals that share the experiences, I really started to understand the big picture of writing with personal experiences. A personal example of writing for personal experiences would be writing about a ball fall off my horse, and so on.

sara santarelli, ch1

This chapter was really valuable to me, and helped me to define several new writing techniques into my every day. For example, I can now define rhetorical in my own words; the different ways to approach an unknown situation in everyday language. I realized that every time anyone writes it is to fulfill a goal. Writing is a key component in everyone’s daily life. Learning that writers write in response to a rhetorical question really helped me to understand rhetorical even further than the book defines. I think the author could have gone into farther detail considering the genres area of the chapter. As the author defines: the established forms that are used to respond to each of these situations. To better describe the chapter I would say it was very helpful to understand the base of writing, and I am excited to learn more on the subject.