Reflective Post

I really enjoyed having Comm 335W: Rhetorical Criticism with Professor Guler. I feel like I learned a lot about how to evaluate a text or oral speech. One of my favorite exercises that we participated in class is when we read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and analyzed it. We then proceeded to hear him actually read his speech during his big delivery. It was amazing to compare how we perceived the speech on paper, versus actually hearing it. I wish we had listening to him giving it in full. I think that was extremely beneficial. I also very much enjoyed when we commented on each others' blog postings. I thought it helped us to understand the different types of criticisms when we had to actually apply our thoughts to another classmate's artifact. I think I will be able to take the different criticisms taught in class and apply them when reading other texts or hearing speeches. It will especially help me when I pursue my graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the fall semester. I think Pentadic Criticism will be the most helpful to me in the future because it makes it easier to comprehend the messages and ideologies when broken down into simple statements. For example, the website is stating its purpose as "this". I really enjoyed the class and I would most certainly recommend it to any of my fellow communication peers.