Effective Paper

• Rhetoric - An effective essay uses words in the correct way to make sure the message conveyed is directed the correct way. An average written essay uses simple words to make a statement or uses big complex words the wrong way. A good essay uses rhetoric to appeal to your audience using devices such as; Metaphors, Alliteration, Similes and Hyperbole.  An average essay will not be affective if it lacks rhetorical devices because it will give the reader a harder time relating to the stance or argument the writer is trying to make.
• Transitions  - A well written essay makes a transition from one paragraph to another, a transition is made by setting up the end of one paragraph to lead the reader into the next paragraph. If the writer tells the story of his life, he might want to do this by braking the story in sections; childhood, teen years, adulthood and elderly years. In doing so the writer might want to end one paragraph talking about his teenage years by writing about his 21st birthday, and so on. A C' written paper with no transitions lacks organization and will confuse the reader and lose focus on the topic itself. 

• Stance - An A' kind of essay will have a clear stance or argument, meaning that the writer will have picked a side and stuck to it. Especially when writing a persuasive essay the writer wants to make sure the reader knows what the writer is trying to convince. If the writer is trying to convince his audience that school uniforms are important for the safety of kids in High-school, he or she can not argue that school uniforms do not allow kids to express their unique style, that would contradict his main argument. A well written paper needs a stance to make the writer sound confident on his topic, if there is no stance the writer will jump from idea to idea without direction. 

       Taking a stance is relatively easy for me, when preparing for the ACT my teacher advised  me to pick  the stance that would be easier for me to write about even if I don't agree with. I was always good at making argument and backing my arguments with evidence because I had a lot a practice doing this verbally. Using rhetorical devices would be the hardest thing for me to put into practice through my writing. In High school I had one teacher who taught us about rhetorical devices and he briefly taught us how to uses them, however I never had much practice afterwards. I have a hard time deciding what words to use to make my writing attract the attention of my audience, I want to make my style of writing to capture the attention of the my audience to the point where they don't want to let go.