As I was looking through post secret, this particular note stood out to me. Basically from third grade to twelfth grade we have taken countless standardized tests to see if we are smart enough or meet certain standards. It was refreshing to see someone who has not met these certain standards take action and do something about it to better himself. I think that this sets a perfect example to all students to learn from their failures and fix their problems. I believe that this post primarily demonstrates exigence, a problem that prompts someone to write or fix. The test scores that the student received was a huge problem and made him think that he wasn't smart enough, but, since he stated, "It was the best thing that ever happened to me" it shows that it gave him the motivation to work hard and improve these not so good scores. The student is showing the audience that good things can come from bad results. The rhetor has created this problem, and has given us the impression that he has solved it by human interactions, this is demonstrating a rhetorical situation. Ultimately, this course is centered around how anything in our daily life has influenced or changed our understanding of writing. Even though so little is written in this post by the student, the audience is still able to figure out his story and how this student even is today. We can tell that he works harder now and he is smarter and bettering himself. This post has proved that a couple small statements can tell a whole story.
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