Rhetorical Analysis Of Thomas Frey's Essay 'Driverless Car'

In high school, we were generally always taught to write persuasive essays and a few times, an informative essay; however, we really never were required to write a rhetorical essay, so when this topic came up, it really required a lesson on rhetorical analysis itself. As someone who generally does better in conversations, and in school, math and science, writing has always been something that hasn’t come as natural to me. I have really had to write many essay to get to where I can write like I can today. So with my topic of driverless cars, I looked at the two articles of Will Knight and Thomas Frey. On one hand, Will Knight is someone who is somewhat of a skeptic. He would like to see driverless cars eventually become a reality or at least
Frey thinks that driverless cars are the future of our transportation to just summarize his article. Frey really had an easy article to pick apart. He is just overly optimistic and just really doesn’t acknowledge any of the negatives that may come with driverless cars, so I thought I did stay more at the surface of this article. Most of the topic was just left at the major points Frey makes. Again, I think this is due partly to the essays being limited in length which just means there isn’t as much real estate to go into lots and lots of depth with these articles. These articles are also not really academic articles with plenty of content. They are really only a page or two in length, and this does restrict how deep the writers can go into detail without losing the readers, which does the leave most articles such as this a little more to the point and more generally than what would be included in an academic journal. With this being said, I think it was a very good essay for me. I definitely think I can continue to make these essays better, but I have definitely improved since last year and even from the last paper. The more I write, the more I read, and the more I examine articles, the better my writing will get. Learning to examine the documents better, using better vocabulary, getting better with transitional phrases, and dissecting articles better are just a few of the ways I can begin to make my writing better for