I feel I have truly developed as an argumentative writer throughout this quarter. I have improved my ability to create an argument AND back it up with supporting evidence that relates. To be honest, when Professor Thompson assigned the class the first essay I was utterly confused. I didn't really know how to base an argument or what the argument would be or how to how find evidence. I had a lot going on and I was overwhelmed. However as the weeks began to pass and we then received our second essay prompt I knew exactly what to do and how to do it. Some would say, well "duh cuz' you already did one," but I feel the entire process of starting from scratch also truly helped me as a writer to develop my skills.
Close reading was a skill I truly developed in tremendously throughout this quarter due to the extensive research we had to do for our two essays. An activity that helped with the close reading of some of the texts such as "Blogging" by Jill Walker Rettberg and Kathleen C. West's article, was creating a precis for the texts as a class. A precis basically summarizes what the text is about and that really helped me to understand it better and be able to apply it to my essays. As for the research aspect of this class, the class we had where the librarian came in and showed us what databases to use for research and how to use them was quite helpful. That class was also very useful because it kind of gave us a direction as to where to start the research aspect of our essays.
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