A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Dakota Access Pipeline

At the beginning of the course we wrote a personal profile, where we introduced ourselves to our classmates and instructor, in it we included some things like the place where we were raised, important influences in our lives, and our dream job. As well, we introduced a topic that we would be interested in structuring and writing an argumentative paper about, I chose the Dakota access pipeline. It was a controversial topic throughout the world and it drew my interest to intellectually challenge the opposing side, along with several other popular debate topics. Unfortunately, I procrastinated throughout the entire course, because writing has never been my strongest suite. I did that because I over thought every single assignment because I was never certain if I was on the right track. Afterwards, we did a “Says Does Analysis” assignment, we had the opportunity to choose an article from the New York Times editorial. We had to determine what the author was trying to do and say, when writing his or her article. Doing this assignment, helped me evaluate my writing more in-depth, and expand upon what I was discussing.
In addition, we wrote a Rhetorical Analysis, I felt academically challenged to
When assigned this essay, I thought to myself that I was never going to find enough information to write eight pages about absolutely anything, not even immigration. So I started out by gathering ideas and information that I had previously used in my Exploratory Essay and things that would add to my argument of the need for an immigration reform. I wrote everything I thought I had to say and was only at three pages, so I decided to attend the writing center, provided by the University. There I was helped to analyze my paper and expand on things like “The Beast Train,” which is a train that carries undocumented immigrants from various parts of Central America and Mexico to the U.S. and Mexico