To whom it concerns,

Prior to taking English 170, my writing style solely addressed the scientific audience by utilizing convoluted jargon within ungrammatically correct, unorganized context developed through learning to write scientific academic journals; which were uncriticized. In correspondence, these scientific courses restricted both my interpretation/perspective regarding my environment, deeming it either black or white within an unbeknownst grey world. Composition 2 awarded me knowledge regarding various modalities to avoid illogical fallacies while enhancing my claims through incorporating the essential literary elements (Ethos, Logos, Pathos) which combinations can appeal to certain audiences. In consideration, the question “The detrimental consequences of a single story”, especially contributed to the evolution of my perspective considering, personally, never imagining that the utilization of one’s narrative could be used as evidence, to the fact that people are capable of lying or being delusional. Through this course, the affirmation of Logos, Ethos, Pathos was evident, nonetheless, other components such as anecdotes, analyzation of underlying symbolism, and differentiating method to argue (Rogerian and Toulmin method) has changed my writing style. 

The illumination of my developing literary knowledge is evident within my Rhetorical Analysis, Mutli-Media project, and research paper. For instance, my Non-profit organization, the Latin x Dream’s aims to provide financial aid via providing the necessary materials needed for survival for the impoverished Latin x community to enhance the prioritization of their higher education. The target audience, Hispanic undergraduate/graduate students (was reached) through utilizing a popularized Pathos platform, Instagram. Cultural cohesion, amongst American and Hispanic culture, methodology was implemented, evident via the symbolic meaning of hope  within the organization’s logo, depicting three various skin tones hands raised along with possessing a fundraiser than conjoined Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos. Alternatively, within the Rhetorical Analysis of “The Joker” trailer, my utilization of descriptive terminology enhanced the connection between Pathos and Logos evidence; evident within this excerpt: “For instance, a troupe the audience unconsciously associates with is the saturation of yellows and reds, signifying that he possesses superiority over society due his symbolic representation. Thus causing the environment around him to appear dull and gloomy. This symbolizes that the Joker became a villain due to his declining mental health. The influence of corrupt governmental institutions has failed to provide the necessities by restricting funds of social services departments. increasing his expenses while decreasing its availability. This symbolizes how mental health has become a second priority for the city of Gotham.”. Some recommended alterations to enhance audience interest, that faltered due to the extensive information/verbosity of the organizations’ “pathos” specific brochure due to my inability of realizing extremely pertinent points of my claim. 

Furthermore, literacy alterations, specifically issues of proper convection (specifically grammar and MLA formatting), within the majority of my literacy pieces such as: “Society has awarded its citizens the ability to differentiate right and wrong in a monotone spectrum of definity.” along with not citing my sources in an alphabetical format. Resolving these inconsistencies would be immensely beneficial to enhance my literary works’ credibility along with preventing further confusion concerning critical points of my claim. 

My prior acknowledgement from taking evidence based/scientific courses, lead to my advanced application of Logos within my literary works through enhancing my awareness of obtaining accredited sources. Nonetheless, the developmental growth of my implementation/utilization of pathos became concrete via generating literary works surrounding morality/ the sustainability goals. Regardless of the knowledge I’ve obtained, issues of  my incohesion based jargon along with improper grammatical utilization remain persistent, ultimately disconnecting my audience. Moreover, the greatest hindrance is my inability to implement ethos, which, its challenging to apply certain American moral ideologies due to being born in America, being raised in a native Hispanic family, and adopting their culture and lifestyle rather than one that’s typical for an American. The implementation of the learnt strategies from Composition 2 is evident within the pathos specific written works for my abstract humanitarian/social science courses, psychology and sociology; especially when discussing scenarios revolving morality. These principles of Composition 2 will beneficially contribute to my future occupation (neurosurgeon) to analytically empathize in group conferences that one brain procedure/method is more efficient and ethical than another.