My Writing Assignment Analysis

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I have had my fair share of ups and downs through the whole writing process. Writing has never been my strongest suit and the reason being I started school from the sixth grade. I've never attended elementary school to learn the fundamentals of writing. The fact that I lack the fundamentals of writing makes it harder for me to fully understand the process of writing. My first major writing assignment that I was given in college was to interpret a story we read in class. I was confused and did not know where to start. I sat on my computer for about six hours and came up with one sentence; I was so exhausted from over thinking that I decided to take a break and that breaks turned into a twenty-four hours break. The next day after my classes

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My Rhetorical Analysis Of Theater Counts

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Assignment: 2-3 Sentences

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Pt1420 Unit 1 Assignment

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Project 1 Assignment Analysis

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Analyze The Ways In Which You Assess Your Revision Skills

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Demonstrate The Ability To Apply The Principles Of Small Group Communication Theory

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Assignment 4 poses some challenges, such as interpreting most of the rhetorical techniques used and making sure that I could clearly communicate what impact the image had on me. Before this assignment, I was well aware of many techniques used in the photograph, but there were still some that I discovered through this writing assignment. For example, I knew that colors and photo composition played a large role in how an audience member perceives a photo, but I didn’t know it could impact a photo in…