Reflection of Writing Class

Ten weeks have past b so fast, four more days our secong quarter will be finished.
With in these ten weeks, I have learned a lot in my writing class. The face book project helped me learning different ways to communicate with others, using appeals of pathos worked very well and it was fun trying to hook up with the peers that you don't even know who they really are. We went into the second part of our class, writing refections upon the newspaper articles we have read. It was fun breakin up the article, figuring out what kind of appeals the editors were trying to use. It doesn't feel like the editors from the newspapers are so special any more, they always make mistakes, I have found that out during this part of my writing class. I could write a paper to the editor telling him/her using different appeals will make it more readable to the audiences.
Besides the skills, writing is about understanding. I do a better job now after learning different appeals and that i should use different tones writing to different audiences.

new version of the letter to denver post

Dear Editor:
I totally agree with the article “School nest eggs need explanation”. Almost every university/ college increases its tuition every year. What we have to pay for our education is getting ridiculously unaffordable.
As an international student, I come from China, students like me have to pay much more tuitions than what U.S. citizens; plus a higher living costs, I don’t know how long my parents still can pay for me while the schools are increasing their tuitions 15% a year. That means when I graduate from college my parents will have to pay at least $220,000 just for my tuition!
The spokeswoman of CU, Gigi Reynold said that 90% of the money CU collect from students will be donated somewhere outside of the school. I understand that with the extra budgets schools can be able to give out scholarships and improve the campus like building a nicer gym. But school is the place for education after all, and not every poor student is lucky enough to get scholarship, many of them lose their chances to go to a good school because of money problems.
Let us not change the true meanings of schools.

Write About Declaration of Independence

In the document Thomas Jefferson has made many ethos appeals. He gave his audience facts to prove that his points of views were right. “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…” This sentence was from the transcript of the document. And because of all the ethos appeals, the document seemed more forceful, and easier to fall for, to believe in. At the same time there are a lot of appeals to logo as well. There were about twenty similar sentences followed up: started with the letter “he”; He talked about the England King and his ridiculous rules and laws to his people. But if you read the sentences, and if you have gone through those facts, then Thomas Jefferson would have used appeals of pathos as well.
He talked about the British King’s Laws to his people, and put himself into his people, here I mean there are many “we” and “our” used in this document. It is an appeal to pathos.