Through this course, and more specifically through the Cultural Analysis project, I have learned the importance of structure. Prior to taking Writing and Rhetoric, I would have approached the Cultural Analysis all at once, not taking the time to break it up in another way other than just by literary devices and introducing and concluding paragraphs. I have a better, more holistic understanding of the topic: the way in which crayola crayons communicate with childhood. Having to split up the major assignment into a Rhetorical Analysis and an Extended Definition, I was able to focus on the impact of specific aspects of Crayola’s marketing, and the connotations they create. I found myself being very vague at some points, and repeating the same ideas in various sentence structures. After writing the Rhetorical Analysis, and reading through feedback on the assignment, I learned the importance of reading my words aloud. I have noticed I tend to speak more fluently than I write, skipping small words or writing the wrong in the wrong tense. Having started the process of this paper back in September, and finishing it in December, I had ample time to think of the concepts I wrote about; the crayons became more familiar as I had been thinking of them as more than just drawing utensils for months. The cumulation of this project gave me a new perspective on writing a synthesized essay, one that I will take with me for future writing assignments.
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Gay, Garry, and Getty Images. “The Day the Crayons Quit Author on What Crayola’s New Color Should Be.” Time Magazine, TIME USA, 30 March 2017, https://time.com/4719760/crayola-day-crayons-quit-dandelion/. Accessed 25 November 2020.