A Rhetorical Analysis Of Nancy Sommers Between The Drafts
Kaci Gray
Whitaker
ENGL 1113-065
12 September 2011
Rhetorical Analysis of Nancy Sommers: Between the Drafts Harvard graduate Nancy Sommers wrote Between the Drafts in February 1992. In many papers, a person is able to tell the direction of the paper within the first paragraph. However in Sommers article, the thesis does not appear until the end. Sommer’s thesis is “It is the thrill of the pull between someone else’s authority and our own, between submission and independence that we must discover how to define ourselves” (31). She uses her own personal experience to demonstrate that when writing how easy it is to lose sight of one’s own voice while trying to follow formal procedure. Sommer presents a good argument because she uses her own experiences in the beginning which readers lose sight of what the papers truly about. Through the course of her argument Sommers uses her personal life, methods of teaching and college …show more content…
She comes to understand that it is with our daily lives that we begin to find ourselves and realize that our words not only the text matter. One has to give their own authority and their own standpoint to make their point argumentative. Through personal life, methods of teaching and college experience does Sommers truly notice the change between her own authority and textual information. It is within us that truly makes a paper what it is. Our own authority should be our judgment. Between the drafts makes one comprehend what really happens between 2 papers. Drafts not only have to be papers but they can pertain to our own lives as well. Arguments begin with our own voices. Either the risk one takes or the risk they do not. It is with much evidence and disdain that Sommers truly presents her argument. One is lost between the words of the paper to make it seem less effective. Sommers uses effective writing techniques’ and much revision to make her thesis
Whitaker
ENGL 1113-065
12 September 2011
Rhetorical Analysis of Nancy Sommers: Between the Drafts Harvard graduate Nancy Sommers wrote Between the Drafts in February 1992. In many papers, a person is able to tell the direction of the paper within the first paragraph. However in Sommers article, the thesis does not appear until the end. Sommer’s thesis is “It is the thrill of the pull between someone else’s authority and our own, between submission and independence that we must discover how to define ourselves” (31). She uses her own personal experience to demonstrate that when writing how easy it is to lose sight of one’s own voice while trying to follow formal procedure. Sommer presents a good argument because she uses her own experiences in the beginning which readers lose sight of what the papers truly about. Through the course of her argument Sommers uses her personal life, methods of teaching and college …show more content…
She comes to understand that it is with our daily lives that we begin to find ourselves and realize that our words not only the text matter. One has to give their own authority and their own standpoint to make their point argumentative. Through personal life, methods of teaching and college experience does Sommers truly notice the change between her own authority and textual information. It is within us that truly makes a paper what it is. Our own authority should be our judgment. Between the drafts makes one comprehend what really happens between 2 papers. Drafts not only have to be papers but they can pertain to our own lives as well. Arguments begin with our own voices. Either the risk one takes or the risk they do not. It is with much evidence and disdain that Sommers truly presents her argument. One is lost between the words of the paper to make it seem less effective. Sommers uses effective writing techniques’ and much revision to make her thesis