Villanueva

1. The shifting between first and third person creates a feeling that there are two different people being talked about in the text. On the other hand, the first person seems to be used when the author is talking about his feelings and emotions while the third person is used to explain what is physically happening. I was taught to always stick to first person or third person. No going back and forth because it causes confusion and the reader will think there is more than one person.

2.  Villanueva's definition of rhetoric is more than I can understand. Rhetoric has something to do with different languages and using symbols. Also rhetoric has something to do with language being biologically transmitted. Villanueva believes studying rhetoric is a way of studying humans. Rhetoric is basically its own language.

3. In high school I was supposed to look at the way an author wrote and then incorporate it into our essay. But I looked at their sentence structures, the variation in length of sentences, and the vocabulary in which they use.  With the length of sentences it could show something with getting right to the point, or something important. Variation in sentence structures makes it more interesting than reading something that starts with the same word for each sentence.

4. The process of Villanueva is similar to my process because I just stare, looking around trying to figure out what to write about. Then I stare trying to figure out how I will put my ideas down on paper, which is probably the most difficult part for me. I also write what comes to mind and realize it makes no sense because it is all in the wrong order. I would move everything around just like Villanueva did.