Another mini-assignment that really helped me improve in my writing, specifically within the RIP project, for both the essay and project portion was the "Knowing Your Audience" Assignment.  Some of the steps inside the assignment seemed tedious, but overall worth the work. All the 'whats' such the value's of my audience, the education level of my audience, the moral priorities, the demographics, and the psychographics helped frame a better picture on how to effectively write to this type of audience (in my case, Gen-Z was the most convenient one to write for, since I am part of that generation). It really came into some good use especially when I started writing the companion essay for the project. 

It also helped me better reverse engineer the pieces of literary work that I see since I have made one myself (although a very small one).  The RIP project felt kind of like a hands-on experience throughout all ends of the writing process that gave a very insightful experience of rhetorical analysis. Rather than the Rhetorical analysis essay, this mini assignment allowed me to choose my own purpose of the text along with the different ways of saying it, so once the graphic novel (RIP project) was complete, it was a matter of translating those thoughts of mine about writing to that particular audience and putting that in words, and I went back to this "Knowing Your Audience" assignment since it gave me an easy, more organized way to see that.  Below show's a picture of the assignment: