The interview responses that I received both challenged and confirmed my understanding of composing in the area of being a public defense attorney. I knew it was very hard to do and that every single piece of writing has to be precise from the emails to the written motions, but I did not know how much work had to be put into it. You have to be able to work very hard and cite every specific detail for the judges to see for it to go through since you do not want to waste their time. I definitely think that I would like to learn more about the tedious process one has to go through to draft these writings because it seems really interesting to find the specific court cases and make sure they back the statement that you have made and what you are trying to fight for in the case. I think that watching somebody else do it would be an awesome experience because to watch the process and different thoughts going through their mind to try to get to the end result would be a very interesting thing to do.

              For my composing practices I would like to improve on writing more formally. As of right now I feel like I am more of a casual and informal writer but in the interview, I saw how every piece of writing and speech done by somebody like a public defense attorney has to be more on the formal side, considering you have somebody else’s future sentence in your hands and you want to try to get the best possible outcome for them. To improve on this area, like the person I interviewed, I would like to look at other people’s writing and statements and try to learn from their different techniques. I can listen to how they speak like what their tone is and how they say each word and look at the different formats of writing they do and what type of words they use and use that as a guide for myself. I feel like improving that specific area of writing will help me reach my goal. I feel like right now if I were to speak out against things I don’t agree with or to help people through my social media and programs, like I did in Project 4293 Inc. I would not be taken seriously because of how young I am, which is what I feel like was happening before. If I improve on my writing and make it more formal, I feel like it would help me reach my outside goals more because in my opinion I think I would be taken more seriously if I wrote more formally.

              Inside the classroom I think I have learned about targeting a certain audience which will help my composing beyond Florida State. I will be able to better differentiate when to be formal and when to be informal and what kind of writing style I need to have for a certain audience. I learned to appeal to either people’s logos (logic), pathos (emotion) or ethos (ethics/trust). In the future if I am building my case for somebody and try to appeal to the jury, I could use all three of these rhetorical appeals. I can show them statistics in the case that favor who I am defending, I can play on the people’s emotions to try and make them empathize with the person who I am fighting for and I can persuade them into thinking that what they are doing is morally right and will help the person severely.