This year, I have Ms.LG as my AP English teacher, I still remember when the first day I got in her class, she told us that we must work really hard in her class in order to get an A. Actually, I thought that I would never get an A in this class no matter how hard I tried. I remember the first rhetorical essay that she assigned us, we got to choose one topic from those three topics, I choose Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech as my topic. Then, I have to find some logos, ethos and pathos from his speech, and choose three from those logos, ethos and pathos, and explain them. I was kind frustrated because I've never done this kind essay before, and I had no idea how to write this essay. Ms. LG explained her instructions in the class, but I didn't get it, so I came to her after school. Then, she tought me how to write that essay step by step. Finally, I had my essay done, and I also got an outline on this kind essay. After I wrote my first rhetorical essay, I felt like it was not that hard.
When the second semester started, we had to wrote another essay. This time, our topic is the death penalty, the essential question is the death penalty should be abolished or not. Ms. LG helped us designed outlines, and then we have to explain them more specificly. My essay was four pages long, actually, I am afraid it would be too long, so I only wrote four pages, otherwise, I can write more than that. This essay is an argumentative essay, I learned that we have to provide some facts in order to convince people. Those facts can be find either from a book, magazine, internet, etc.
In the end of this year, I got outlines on how to wrote rhetorical and argumentative essay, now I not the one who only know how to write narrative essay, and I got better sentence structure and better grammer. Sometimes, in order to write argumentative essays, we not only statement our opinion but also provide some facts and evidences. I also learned that we are not allow to use I, we, us, you, those words in a rhetorical essay.
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