Well, it's been a great year in APELC, and I'm proud to say my writing has definitely improved, along with my TOWs. I noticed, specifically, improvements when I looked back at my analysis of images. At the beginning, I wasn't really sure how to rhetorically analyze an image or a visual text; in fact, I didn't really know that images could serve any rhetorical purpose at all. As I learned throughout the year, however, my analysis of visual texts became much better and much more sophisticated. I think I have definitely mastered analyzing these types of texts. They are also my favorite, and I find it extremely interesting that a simple picture can convey such a large message.
Although I feel I definitely improved, there is, of course, room for more improvements. I still have not mastered rhetorically analyzing short, non-fiction texts. I have become much better at it, but finding the author's theme, message, or purpose is something I still struggle with this. I struggled with it much more at the beginning of the year, and these TOWs helped me by exposing me to tons of different types of writing, which allowed me to try and find messages of different authors and different passages. I had also never really been too into non-fiction before now, but discovering intriguing newspaper articles and even biographies have been two advantages of doing these TOW assignments over the course of the year.
TOWs were definitely one of the most time-consuming, yet beneficial aspects of this class. At first, I didn't really understand how they were going to help, but I found it so amazing that after just two or three of the entries, my writing began to change and develop. The success that I've had throughout APELC during this year is reflected by the improvements in my TOWs. It's cool to look back on the ones from the summer before junior year and get a gist of how much I really did learn this year. Thanks TOWs!
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