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Rhetorical Analysis

My rhetoric journey

Everyone has an aim in life. Some want to become doctors, other engineers, pilots, accountants

or lawyers. The list continues. These interests develop innate or may be acquired with the

passage of time. Sometimes, some critical life events take one to a specific position or towards a

passion for that position. Even if one is pre-disposed to a certain profession, there is a point

where this predisposition converts into passion and this the point from where-on, the journey

becomes interesting and enriching. The paragraphs to follow are a narrative of how my interest

in literacy development shaped from one of the experiences I had in my academic life and how

this experience helped in shaping my passion towards mastering my rhetorical skills to an expert

level and the role played by my family, teachers and peers in the entire situation.

It happened on one fine day that one of our science teachers in school asked us to give

presentations on a topic he allocated randomly among all my class fellows. I was given the topic

of the digestive system of human beings which I had to present to the class.

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Our class had twenty five pupils nearly having as many boys as girls. This was indeed the first

time I was given an opportunity to make a presentation to an audience which I considered quite

friendly. We were given one week to prepare our respective topics and I still remember it was

Monday when the science teacher wanted us all to present our topics one by one. I was quite

good in all subjects I was studying especially in the case of science, so the first thought which

came to my mind was that the presentation shall be a piece of cake for me. I started preparing the

content the very next day I was allotted my topic and it seemed that I already had a mastery of all

the concepts and technical facts required for the presentation. Preparation of slides and materials

for the presentation also went flawlessly and within a matter of two days, I was done preparing a

concise and elegant presentation supported by all sorts of illustrations for my topics.

Things, however, took a turn when after finishing off with the composition of my presentation; I

decided to do some practice in presenting my content. I chose my parents and siblings as an

audience and selected the drawing room as the site where I would be presenting. I fixed a time

for them, borrowed a projector system from one of the neighbors, attached my computer to the

projector system and there I was; all set for my mock presentation. Everything was going fine

and superb till then until I began presenting my topic after everyone was seated. Things took a

strange turn when I started. I felt quite confused as everyone was looking up to me in an excited

and inquisitive way. The first thought which came to my mind was will I be able to come up with

their expectations or not. And there began the start of a state of anxiety which persisted

throughout. I was a good speaker even before this event but on that day, I felt I am too nervous to

address an audience.

I cannot share more of the details of that presentation anymore as it was utterly disappointing and

not up to the mark in any way. Although I did not receive a discouraging comment or gesture

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1 Name: Professor: Date: ENG 101 Rhetorical Analysis My rhetoric journey Everyone has an aim in life. Some want to become doctors, other engineers, pilots, accountants or lawyers. The list continues. These interests develop innate or may be acquired with the passage of time. Sometimes, some critical life events take one to a specific position or towards a passion for that position. Even if one is pre-disposed to a certain profession, there is a point where this predisposition converts into passion and this the point from where-on, the journey becomes interesting and enriching. The paragraphs to follow are a narrative of how my interest in literacy development shaped from one of the experiences I had in my academic life and how this experience helped in shaping my passion towards mastering my rhetorical skills to an expert level and the role played by my family, teachers and peers in th ...
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