Portfolio
Throughout
this semester I have become interested in a topic that I never imagined before.
RWS 1302 did not only helped me to develop my skills in writing, analyzing, and
communicating, but it also helped me to raise awareness and have a personal
opinion on topics that I never had the experience to learn about. What I liked
about this course is that the instructor did not force us to support completely
the feminist movement, instead, she gave us the resources to learn about gender
differences from different perspectives, then, gave us the opportunity to
become aware of these differences in our own environment with an auto
ethnography. At the beginning it was hard because I was not familiar with the
subject, however, as time passed and we researched more, it became not only
easier but also more and more interesting. From this course I learned that
rhetorical appeals everywhere and are very important even if we do not realize.
In my future career as an engineer I will be able to use what I learned throughout
the semester. However, what I am most thankful for is the opportunity that
these course gave me to find out about a problem that happens every day in our
lives and we don´t realize, a problem that as I learned more, it fascinated me
more.