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November 2020
Reflective writing
Some things that I learned from the reflective writing video is that it is not just about looking at the past. You can look at how you will progress to make your writing better in the future and what you can change about your writing to make it better. Also when you are looking at the past don’t just look at one small event or one writing piece, look at many different pieces that all add up to where you are.
Reflection is important in becoming a better writer and student because you can learn from your mistakes and figure out what you need to do to make yourself better. It will also help to build your self confidence in the end when you start growing.
Reflection is a good thing outside of the class because you need to learn how to reflect on your past actions to better yourself and challenge yourself, but ultimatley to find out what you need to work on in your life or what you are doing well.
Argument Reflection
I have learned to check the research that I do with multiple sources because my topic can be very biased on multiple sources.
I have learned much more and been more focused on what the president has done for the country and how he has helped, focusing on the good and how we have grown.
I am facing a problem in finding a good counterargument and making it strong. Since my beliefs are what my argument is about finding research that goes against it is very hard.
“For Arguments Sake” Response
Cohens main claim is that arguers are better at losing and you learn from losing.
He says that arguing mostly comes out in a war like way. This war metaphor makes it seem like the other won and you lost, but really you gained from it because you were asking questions about their point of view and you learn their position in the argument even if you do not agree with it you still learn from what they are saying.
His idea that arguing is like war was new to me because I had never thought about it like that before even though it is very true.
My question is how do we learn from others when in an argument because most of the time people are so set with their opinion they do not take in anything what the other is saying.
A new idea that could be useful in writing this essay is to put yourself in the audience position to see how well your argument is and that it does well and uses strong evidence.
Project #2 Unit Reflection
My writing skills have improved from completing this project by focusing more on the different ways people use film and writing to affect the audience. It has improved my way of viewing films and helped to look deeper into different emotions represented and different ways of thinking.
This project highlighted my weakness of being able to focus on multiple areas throughout one paper. I focused mainly on one appeal when I needed to focus on all three appeals.
The most stressful part of this project was choosing which Op-Doc to choose and I overcame things stress by choosing which video I could not necessarily relate to the most but I could find the most details about.
I want to be sure to remember to focus on looking at all topics of an essay instead of just focusing on one topic and being able to combine it all together to work.