I really struggled with this assignment because I really didn’t know how to use the features and make the paper good. I really struggled with citations, how to put them in the essay. What came easily was the other side’s argument from mine in the paper. I think that came easily because it had to be the opposite of my argument. If I had more time, I would maybe set another conference up to meet with my teacher. I don’t think I have did writing like this before which probably made it a lot harder than the previous papers we have done in class. I learned while doing this that an argumentative essay is not just persuading or trying to get your point across, you have to back it up with textual evidence and make sure you don’t get off topic, that your whole paper is focused on one point except the opposite side argument. I don’t think I did well on this assignment, it was very hard and I think if I had more time that I will feel better about this assignment. It was not different to see multiple sides of an issue because it’s just the opposite of what you think and what you think someone who thinks that side of the argument would say and how would they back it up with textual evidence. The student-teacher conference helped me with this paper because I actually got to hear what the teacher, the person who is grading my paper, what she thinks and what I need to change. I think that helped because she knows what she will be looking for when she grades the papers. I discovered about myself that I need to get better things to talk about or just know how to put all my thoughts and things in my essay better.