Summary of class

  Being my first semester back to school in almost 5 years, I have taken advantage of every minute back in school and been a sponge to learning so far. In our first few english classes we learned about some of the common grammar mistakes, the rhetorical situation, how to read, write and understand rhetoric, and learned about writing thesis statements. Rhetoric is the persuasive arguments that a writer or speaker uses in their work. Its harder to realize when you haven't thought about it in so long, but almost all writing, speech, and visual things are rhetoric that try to get someones argument or point of view across. I have now noticed on a daily basis the real meaning or rhetoric of everything I read and see and it makes everything much more interesting. The next big thing we learned in class was how to write a thesis statement. A thesis statement is a statement made by the author that is a summary of what they are going to write about. It is a specific statement offering their interpretation of a subject and can be argued from various viewpoints. I now know the framework to creating a well written thesis statement and can form them in my future work.