Blog Assignment #11

I believe writing, composition, and rhetoric, are fundamental tools for my educational and professional life. My writing skills will be required in many reports and academic papers. I already felt how those skills are important to me during the last five years of my undegraduation in Brazil. My major is civil engineering, thus the rhetoric is more based on logos and ethos, because all my analyses are based on the results that I find, facts, and the study of famous (and most of the time, already dead) physicists, mathematicians, and engineers. On the other hand I can say I already used pathos in an article, in order to show that the material offered by a provider had bad quality (and it have had a huge influence in my test’s results). The argument was based on logic as well, but I knew that my professors and other people interested in the article would consider that it wasn’t my fault at all. The same is for my professional life, because I will need archive a lot of information about my designs or from construction management. Moreover, if I work as an engineering expert, I would need to write reports for judges in cases like the fall of a building, or even a simple claim of a client on any construction problem against a construction company. Therefore, I know I will need to communicate well with people from different fields through writing, in a technical report, in a proposal, or a simple job order, for example.