Different forms of Rhetorical Styles

In these past weeks I have learned that there are many forms of rhetorical styles. Eveything around us has its own rhetorical style. Just like there are many different discourses that we use, we also use different rhetorical styles when we communicate with others. Even though we have been taught to use different forms of rhetorical styles all of our life, I have never paid any attention to them until now that I’m taking this class. We have been taught to always check how our writing style since high school but I never understood the true meaning of what that meant. None of my teachers in high school ever explained about the different rhetorical styles, so when we started to talk about it in English 214 it was very shocking to me.

Going back to paper 2, it was kind of hard at first because I had no idea what we had to do. But it helped me understand that there are many ways you can send the same message but using different rhetorical styles to do so. Each style is set to serve a certain group of audience and help them understand what the writer wants them to get out of a story.

This goes also plays a huge role in what major you are going into. Each major has their own specific rhetorical style that focuses only to those that are in the major or interested in the major. Other that are not in it, will find it hard to understand because they won’t be used to that writing style. I use won’t understand some ones paper who is in the business major just because it’s something that I’m not interested in or ever learned about, same thing goes to someone outside of my major.

During these past weeks I realized that it’s okay to have different rhetorical styles and that teachers just have to understand that not everyone is going to be able to understand all of the different discourses. Everyone will always have different interpretations of certain writing and some will find it hard to understand, but taking this class it has helped me to be able to figure out in depth the rhetorical styles of papers so that I can understand them better. At the end of the day we will have to learn how to read all sorts of different rhetorical styles if we want to have a better understanding of different discourses.