Alberto Chaidez

208 Columbia Drive SE, 87106 NM | 575-910-5753 | chaideza@unm.edu

Elizabeth Benedict
English Instructor
UNM

Dear Professor Benedict :

Throughout the duration of this course we have covered many different
learning outcomes. Such as Analyzing rhetorical situation, evaluating
information, composing documents, and presenting documents. I have
gained an understanding with these that I will carry on in my life and
professional/academic career.
I would define analyzing rhetorical situation as knowing and understanding
everything that you are writing about, who you are writing to, why you are
writing and how to write it. This was exercised in each assignment this
semester, before beginning each assignment I had to have understanding of
the rhetorical situation in order to know what I was going to write. This
learning outcome just might be the most important due to the fact that
rhetorical situation can be used in any type of document, as well as being
translated to analyzing situations in general. This learning outcome has
taught me to take a step back and analyze whatever it is that I am doing,
That in itself is extremely important and universal to a future profession,
more school work, and just life in general.
Finding and evaluating information can be condensed to simply research.
But it is a little more than just research. What makes it different is the
evaluating part. In all research evaluating is always the next part. This
learning outcome is important because it incorporates finding information
and evaluating as one process, as it should be. This was displayed in MWA 3,
the recommendation report. We were asked to research and then present the
important data that we found for a part of the assignment. In order to find
the important information we had to evaluate what we found and figure
out if it was relevant or important to the rest of my report. This learning
outcome is important because it has taught that everything I find in research
is not always useful to whatever I am doing just because it is related. All
research needs to be evaluated towards the rhetorical situation in order to
find out if it will fit in a document. This can be used for any type of research

that may be conducted in a future marketing position or any research

assignment for the remainder of school.
Composing documents was easy to grasp because I have been composing
documents my entire academic career so this learning outcome was not new
to me. I would describe this Outcome as simply creating a document with its
purpose in mind. Composing documents is universal in all genres as well as
rhetorical situation, therefore I will always use this outcome. Throughout the
semester I was able to practice my approach towards writing each document
and then composing them.
Presenting documents can be tricky, it is something I have dealt with all my
academic career but not something I have been completely comfortable
with. I would define the presentation of a document as more than a verbal
presentation but as design, format and medium. For this you need to take
your rhetorical situation and audience into account. I learned this mostly
from creating our website because I had designed it with a future employer
in mind so I wanted to keep my site professional. This can also be translated
into presentation in general such as yourself. Always take everything into
account so that you can present something the best way possible, this is
something that I can carry with me everywhere I go.
I have learned many things in this class that I will take with me in my
academic and future careers. These four being some of the most important. I
thank you for your instruction, guidance and time.

Sincerely,

Alberto Chaidez

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