Each essay we have read so far stay focused on what they are trying to get across to the reader. I can’t say that I have always understood their writer’s focus. For example in Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels”, it seems my perception of what she was focused on was not the same as what the instructor was trying to get me to see. These readings are not black and white so you have to use some creative thinking to understand them and it is apparent my creative thinking is out in left field. This has shown me that I really need to work on this area, I can write all I want but if I can’t understand what someone else has wrote that is going to hinder me not only in this class but future classes and outside of school.
Development plays into the above, for example; as the writer changes from describing a weasel to using the weasel as an object to try and get an underlying message across the reader has to be able to analyze this in order to develop their own opinion of what the writer is trying to convey. It is the writer’s ability to persuade the reader to believe in their thesis. …show more content…
For me the one that used a strategy that worked for me was in Benjamin Franklin’s “Arriving at Perfection” while other people may have difficulty understanding the chart that he displayed in his essay, for me that told the story of what he was trying to track and accomplish. A writer will re-shape what the reader thinks through rhetorical strategies where they will see a concept in a new way. Rhetorical strategies are not the easiest to write in order to persuade a reader through the use of words. For example in Annie Dillard’s “Living like a Weasel” she used the weasel to get the reader to see the concept of living a more basic