more about columns

As I haven't been doing a lot of independent reading lately, I thought I would spend some more time writing about columns. I learned two big things during this this unit. One of them Is that the elements of rhetoric and be used in a lot of interesting and captivating ways to make your writing better and more descriptive. The other, Is that I only really enjoy only really enjoy humor columns. Going through the unit we talked more about how diction choices can better our writing, which seems like it may be important because we've talked about it only a few more times than once this year. We also continued talking about syntax and learned about how purposeful fragments could add effect to our writing or place emphasis. One technique that I've used in my speech to ridicule and tease my friends with for a while now (all in good fun) is rhetorical questions. I never really thought about using it in my writing until this unit. The way I've seen authors use rhetorical questions in the columns we read during this unit really gave me reason for using it myself. Why did I not use it before? That's rhetorical.

Now to talk about the other thing I learned during the unit. I only like humor columns. Maybe it has something to do with my dislike of reading ( despite Mrs. Bross' efforts to change that) or possibly it's because I like to stumble across the topics of most columns by myself instead of have someone tell me what those things are like. I don't really know why myself. what i do know is why I do enjoy humor columns. The reason for that is in the theme itself. Humor. Honestly for me, theres no such thing as a good day without laughter. I like both to be laughing and to be making others laugh. I am always looking for new ways or situations to be the cause of another person's chuckles. When I see my classmates reading the humor columns that we did this unit , I feel like they are only getting half of what I got out of them. Not only did I find them funny, I saw them as a place to find new techniques to use myself. Whatever the reason, I feel like I don't get The same double value from the other columns. Oh well.