Rhetoric Analysis of My High School Project

        During the second semester of my senior year, my creative writing teacher informed my class that what we did for our upcoming project would our decision. We could write poems, make a cook book, create a memoir, etc; she wanted our topic and medium to say something about who we are. In my composition, I had to figure out who my readers were, what I wanted to say to them, how I would say it, and which form of writing would be most desirable.

        Ever since I was little, I aspired to travel the world, so I knew that I wanted that to be my subject. My purpose for writing would be to show my classmates reasons why they too, should want to travel. To reach my peers the best I could, I decided my finished project needed to be appealing, easy to comprehend, and direct. 

        After some consideration, I chose to create travel brochures for different countries I dreamed of visiting. I included tourist locations that someone not from the area might like to see, restaurants that specialized in cuisine the region was famous for, and pleasant photos of the places mentioned. For example, I made a London brochure, and in it I included a paragraph detailing the many attributes of the Tower of London, and a photo to go with it. My style of writing was light hearted, and easy to read. I listed multiple reasons why anyone would enjoy the trip. In a travel brochure, you have limited space, so I included a website that my classmates could go to if they were interested in learning more. By incorporating all the different aspects of the rhetorical process, I created something that would prompt my peers to be more interested in traveling the world.