The End of the Semester, Almost

Now that you have finished turning in all of your presents, i.e. your finals and Lucy essays, I will have the holidays to peruse your rhetorical analysis and argumentative abilities. As you may have noted, throughout the semester, you have been practicing skills to help you become a more mature writer: including emphases on diction and vocabulary, thesis statement construction, variegated rhetorical strategies, shifts, and managing ideas in a timed scenario. As this is still a work in progress (remember that crawling analogy?), your strengths are increasing, your weaknesses are fading away, and you are now on the path of fine-tuning all of those skills so that you can walk and run to that AP exam in May. I hope you enjoy your break, and checked out the previous blogs for information regarding the 2 handouts (fallacies and Jacobs prompt) that you picked up on the last day. See you in the New Year!