Blog #1: The Writing Autobiography

          My name is Alexandra Raymond and I am from a small town in central New Jersey--no, it's nothing like The Jersey Shore and I do not personally know Snookie.  I am a dietetics major, so basically I study nutrition and what types of diet is good for people.  I absolutely love my major and I don't think I could be more interested in nutrition if I tried.  This major requires A LOT of chemistry and biology, which is good for me because I am a more science and math person.  I am not taking many writing or English classes because I am not required to, and honestly I don't think I'm that good of a writer.  For me, I really have to sit down and think about what I'm writing.  Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people where the words just flow out of them. I do try though, and I think with enough time and editing I can create a fairly good paper.  It just take awhile for me to take my thoughts and place them into a coherent paper.
           Junior year of high school, I took an AP Language class.  In this class, we analyzed language and studied how to create an effective argument through the use of literary devices/rhetoric.  I definitely expect English101 to be something like my high school class, except a little more in depth.  It was difficult in that we had to write our own argument papers using what we had learned in class, but creating an effective argument is definitely time-consuming, especially when we had to incorporate literary devices.  Hopefully, English101 will increase my knowledge in rhetoric and maybe even make me a better writer.  I feel like every paper or essay someone writes, the better she gets at formulating her thoughts and the more "flow" the paper has.

        

Figures of Speech--HYPOPHORA!

A hypophora is almost like a rhetorical question.  The author proposes a question and then immediately answers it.

http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/hypophterm.htm