A Little About Me!

Hello! My name is Key’Anna Scott. I am a full-time undergraduate student at Wayne State University (WSU). I am a stay- at- home mother to my son, Martino Haywood Jr. Besides the time I spend with my son, I enjoy reading, exercising sometimes, going to the movies, entertaining friends, and of course, SHOPPING! I plan to graduate from WSU with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Arts under Fine Arts. That’s my passion that I hope and pray to make a successful and interesting career from. Along with graduating and obtaining a satisfying career, I look forward to marriage and MAYBE one more child. Who knows?! So… anyways, I’m sure with many of you, critics and supporters, reading my writing above about Geico’s car insurance, caveman comparison, are wondering why did I right it and what did I accomplish from it.
Well, I am currently at the end of my semester for my fall 2008 classes, one in particular being English 1020, which has turned out far more interesting and enjoyable than I intended. Not only because of the interaction with my professor and peers, but because I have really been able to broaden my writing into a level beyond where I thought it could go. Now, I can take with me new writing techniques and rhetorical workshops that I have learned to make my papers extremely better than they would have been before. Even though the class focused primarily on rhetoric, the centuries-old study of the arts of persuasion, it went far much deeper than that term because we live in a world where almost everything we look at, read, and listen to tries to persuade us in some sort of form. It’s all around us in today’s world and tomorrow’s future.
Now that I have had the confidence knowing that my writing can always improve, I plan on putting strong effort into it every time I am given a chance, whether I am writing for school, a job, or something as simple as writing in my son’s baby book. Learning about rhetoric has been entirely beneficial for me because as a mentioned earlier, my career goal is to be a well- off Graphic Artist, which more than likely will deal with the world of advertising or at least persuading some type of person or image. Glad to say, I have gotten a glimpse of that side of the world through rhetorical writing and I only hope to learn more and push further.
English 1020 have taught and gave a peek of reality for things that could be expected out of many of our careers, especially mines. Rhetorically –wise, my learning and writing of rhetoric has been one of the factors that have allowed a lot of things to change around me. I now find myself finding some type of way to look at almost everything as trying to persuade me. It has sort of been like an amateur photographer’s experience; they’re so use to taking pictures that everything they see is seen as a picture. If you’re curious of the different types of projects that we’ve worked on dealing with rhetoric and important issues overall, check out my project links: Stay at Home vs. Working Moms and The Audacity of Hope. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them if you enjoyed my piece above. This may be the end of the term and the end of this class for me, but it’s the beginning of a whole lot more to come…