Samin Jahan
Professor Jamison
FIQWS 10108
10 October 2018
Reflecting Upon my Career Compass
The compass is essential to designing my life according to the book “Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett and David J Evans. The purpose of this essay was to build a compass which will help me head towards the right direction in designing my life in order to find a career that coheres with my own unique views on work and life. Reading the book from the beginning helped me understand what exactly I needed to address in this essay. I believe this essay displays all the goals I needed to accomplish.
The four rhetorical situations that dictated my essay were purpose, audience, genre and stance. Thinking about audience, purpose, and genre situations mainly called for a specific writing style. In both audience and purpose rhetorical situations, I am the center of it. Me being the individual who reads it (audience) and the reason for writing (purpose) being to help guide myself to finding a career fit for me. The writing style my essay possessed was more narrative in contrast to persuasive. I wrote the essay in first person mainly because I am the audience and its purpose were to benefit me. Because of purpose and audience my drafting process was easy, because all I had to do was just put all my thoughts down on paper. My final piece was just rearranging them and analyzing my views. My stance came in when I stated my thesis, which was my view on life and work. I backed up my personal opinions (stance) about work and life with examples and reasonable explanations.
One course learning outcome that I got from this essay was engaging in a collaborative and social aspect of the writing process. During the drafting process, in class we revised our peers’ essay while they also revised mine. Also, outside of class in a group of 4, we took turns reading over each other’s writing and giving some glows and grows about their writing. The second course learning outcome I got was when I payed great attention to the rhetorical situations after the drafting process in order to make things sound clearer if someone else were to read my essay. Peer review in and outside of class mainly helped my essay just sound better. When putting thoughts down on the paper right from my head, I realized a lot of things that sounded awkward.
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