Summary/Analysis Update

I'm going to be honest.. I'm not confident in my analysis at all.  I feel confident about my summary portion because I know how to do that.  I’m not as secure in my analysis skills because I never really thought I was good at it.  I always thought I managed to give the illusion I knew what I was doing when I used big words in the analysis.  So either the big words distracted my teachers into thinking I was good at analysis or they saw what I couldn’t see.  Well, if I’m going back honesty, I never really thought I was a good writer either.  So maybe I’m just being overly critical of myself and I need to rein in the perfectionist in me.  Or maybe I’m legitimate in my fears of being horrible at rhetorical analysis.  I guess only time will tell.

I have been working on my analysis for give or take a few weeks and I don't think I've gotten better. One of the problems could be the article I chose to analyze. I picked a scientific article with a lot of big words I need google to understand. That's fine for summary, but it makes analysis all the more difficult. How can I analyze what they saying when I don't even understand what they are saying in the first place? It could be a full lot of nonsense for all I know. To me, the big words could be an appeal to ethos. Ethos is credibility and what is more credible than using words people need google to understand? Anyway, I'm going to continue working on it. The student sample is helping me with formatting because I was having a hard time trying to figure out where to work in the analysis with the summary. I know I'll get there eventually, it's just a matter of getting to the finish line with a draft I'm confident in.