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Carlos Garcia Sanchez

Joseph Klein
RHT 101
5 December 2015
The Magicality of Expression
Alone and dark, the hands swarmed towards me, clawing at the gaping hole near my
abdominal cavity, aching to strike and reach inwards for my large intestines, for the grammar
Nazi was hungry for the misspelled words and incorrect punctuation coursing through my body.
Triton College, ranked twenty fifth in the nation for top earners in regards to community
colleges, is home to a man named Joseph Klein, an English professor whose quirky persona will
shower you in a torrent of English expertise. From illustrating the grit and pleasure of
imaginative scenarios, to adding the glue to sentence structures, Mr. Kleins Rhetoric 101 class
reiterated my prowess in the English language.
Upright and alert, yet tired and incoherent at 1 am in the morning, I fault back the
exhaustion of the day and continued to tirelessly battle the reclining sensation of imaginative
expressions, yet out of the blue, as if someone pierced every vertebrae in my spinal cord, the
fatigue vanquished and immense competence swallowed me whole. What was I writing you say
at this late hour? My lovely narrative essay, of course, a difficult war where this particular battle
was won. Isnt the beginning of this paragraph great in illustrating my prowess in writing sensory
detail? The many activities in class, from describing a random image, with an imaginative mind,
to brainstorming by continuously writing different scenarios that had a particular life changing
scene, did great wonder in helping me reiterate my passion for writing descriptive, highly
detailed art. You, my fabulous reader, which no doubt is jealous of yours truly, can just look no

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further than my narrative essay specifically, where sensory detail is galore. One specific area is
my introduction, where I write about how I used to anoint myself on a pedestal with God, an
egotistical maniac, where I make a Greek allegory about Narcissus, and how Narcissus would
cower to ever compare himself to a God. Another explicit scene rich with detail, is in the third
body paragraph, where I describe my brother choking as, wheezing and coughing like an old
man with asthma looking paler and more translucent than a balloon. Even in the conclusion,
where I compare myself to a great keep that does neither my siblings nor I justice in keeping
such egotistical prowess in comparing myself as equal to God. Also, not to be the buzzkill, but
this entire body paragraph speaks for itself, you couldve stopped reading when the first sentence
eroded, Im just saying.
According to Carlos Garcia Sanchez, President of Earth, Five billion years from now,
the Earth is doomed to a fiery death as the Sun expands and consumes what once was the home
of a species named man. In text citations, love them or hate them, are a necessary instrument
when citing someone else, especially the president of Earth whose current administration is
advocating for gulags! To tell you the truth, whoever you might be, I dont enjoy citing or
quoting, but it's a necessary evil, and Mr. Klein's many activities helped immensely in doing
them correctly. From giving out a handout that summarizes how to cite or conduct in text
citations, from articles on the web, to journals from a database, to a particular in class activity,
where the class was divided into groups and whisked off for a grisly competition to the death,
where those fastest to correctly quote or cite lived to tell the tale; massive preparation was in
effect for preparing for the final war. What war you say? But the research and argument essays
of course! Clinically polished, I survived the competition to the death and successfully illustrated
how to properly cite articles and how to properly quote from articles, with many mental scars to

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prove it. From listing the citations in alphabetical order, all with hanging indents, for sometimes I
had to skip one of the steps in how to properly cite an article because it mightve not have had an
author. One example of that would be when I quoted, and cited, a speech from Donald Trump in
my argument essay, the quote did not have an author, so I had cite starting with the title, and
quote, by putting the publisher in quotes in parenthesis after quoting the speech. Through the
process of quoting, I also learned that if you quote something that is more than 4 lines in an
essay, it is labeled a block quote, and to quote it properly, you would have to start the quote in its
own line, tabbed in proportion to the rest of the paragraph, all without needing quotation marks
around what youre quoting, which you could see in my argument essay where I quoted from the
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, note the difference between the rough and polished
drafts. Long paragraph am I right? Thats how long it takes to properly quote and cite something
specific to MLA, or APA guidelines.
You have to love glue, from its creamy stickiness, to its taste and flavour that is sweet as
roasted chicken in spicy chocolate latte. Mr. Kleins Rhetoric 101 class helped in how to
properly use glue in sentence structures, and by that, I refer to fanboys (for, and, nor, but, or, yet,
so) and last but not least, the beautiful comma and the lovely colon and semicolon. Throughout
the semester, we were put in constant peril where the class, once again continuously divided, was
placed in groups, but unlike fighting to the death where you had to cite properly, in this case, it
was all about grammar worksheets and handouts where the class, under the threat of death, was
put to work learning about grammar, which helped tremendously in how to properly, for
example, join two independent clauses using a comma and a fanboy, or a semicolon. Now, I
must say that I rarely, if at all, ever garnered a grammar mistake in my fully polished drafts, but
there were several in my rough drafts. Lets put my argument essay in the spotlight shall we? If

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you see the picture gallery where Mr. Klein corrected and put suggestions in my rough draft.
Minus the words, you could see how he put two commas in the fifth paragraph, where I wrote
my original subpar counterargument, around the word however, and put a fanboy (and) to make
that statement function correctly. There, of course, is more to grammar than just commas and
fanboys, one being the deletion or insertion of words to make a sense of things, which you my
lovely reader, could see occur in the varied notes in my rough draft, whether by me or Mr. Klein,
and you, if you dare to read every artifact as see the changes for yourself. Apart from that, there
really isnt anything to say here. Sorry if I dare to break your heart, wont you stay for just
another few sentences? There is an obvious reason why I have the grade I do, with thanks to Mr.
Klein of course, who will be reading this. I have no doubt though, that my bragging caused some
errors in this essay to be left unattended, and dont you love irony!
Mr. Klein's Rhetoric 101 class reiterated my prowess in the English language, from
writing imaginative descriptive scenes, to citing and quoting from many sources, and
remembering how to properly add glue to sentence structures. As I continue on my perilous quest
to learn in higher education, I hope that my prowess continues unabated, especially in Rhetoric
102 next semester, and beyond once I graduate. A future world dominating President would
obviously need some good diction, believe me, I tell it like it is folks, believe me.