I never considered myself an avid writer, but I do enjoy brainstorming ideas while having a cup of milk tea next to me and have some acoustic songs playing in the other tabs opened in my laptop. Writing is enjoyable if I’m feeling inspired, especially during those rainy days when my fingers have this tingle of desire to just type to its heart content. It could be that or it’s just how I like the keyboard sounds when I’m typing fast. But I digress. 

Since a while back, I’ve been taught by my wonderful English teachers to keep a static writing: “Just restate the question and answer it!” That’s exactly what I did because who was I to question their teaching methods?

In every test I did, I followed those exact rules and hadn’t considered inputting my own analysis or my own tone in those words I’ve written. Like I said before, I’m not the best writer in town but I try my best. So when I suddenly enter college, those words of “restating” were just thrown out of the window. For the past several months into the semester, I had to write my own thoughts, analysis, and have my own voice in the very words that I’m typing.

‘Discovering the importance of rhetoric becomes significant when you realize that you have been using this concept even without prior knowledge. Overall, rhetoric is not simply just a term used for deception, but it’s used for so much more and allows us to dive into deeper topics with its use. They’re used to express your thoughts, ideas, and feelings into a conversation and could possibly change the thoughts of others.’

The process of writing these replies of mine was somewhat difficult. From the quote above, that was my first entry response to the course and it took me a long time to write what I wanted to write. I never really placed my “voice” in my writing until now, so writing about the article I read about rhetoric questions was indeed the start of my long journey in writing.

However, the more I wrote, the more comfortable I felt with this new kind of style and actually became much more enjoyable in doing. Despite what I said before about using an inflexible writing style, I always knew that writing is a method of expressing one’s thoughts and opinions about someone, something, or anything at all.

‘From the discussion of gender and sexuality, my insights for the two is more open-minded. I don’t mind that there are individuals out there who are attracted to the opposite sex or both, as well as what they consider themselves to be.’

As you can see from that quote I’ve placed, that was my attempt in adding my own opinion about the matters of sexuality and gender. During the process of writing that response, I was comfortable in adding more of my voice to my words.