Unlike the last writing assignment, I started off struggling with serious writers block for the Rhetorical Analysis. I had a really hard time finding a New York Times Op-Ed piece that I felt confident would make a good topic for an extensive analysis. The day before my topic was due, I came across an article that had been posted that morning and immediately knew it was the one that I was going to be working with. Writing on Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared by Caroline Paul really taught me about my writing process particularly the specifics of the Writing 100 outcome that includes brainstorming, planning, drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and proofreading. The first draft I wrote was completely in agreement with every point the author made, as I had been upon reading the article for the first time. But once I started to dive deeper into underlying meaning and flesh out critical analysis, I realized that certain claims the author made, like the one where she believes in basically only one way to raise a daughter into a “right” type of woman, were claims that I did not agree with. I struggled once again, as I had in my last paper, with balancing the implementation of quotes to get my message across. I think that I did a much better job incorporating quotes into this paper and used much less to just as convincingly convey my points. In the past I have struggled with analysis, but for this paper, I think because it was only the analysis of one article, it came naturally once my writers block subsided. The only main problem I had was writing a conclusion, which now I realize I could have made stronger with more summary and closure. Overall, I am really proud of this paper and the things that it taught me.