Overall, I enjoyed the second writing assignment much more
than I did the first one. It was very nice being able to pick our own topic and
attempt to persuade the reader into agreeing with our proposed solution to the
problem we were discussing. Many of the
in-class assignments had helped me in drafting my essay, but trying to prove
the main opposing viewpoint to a neighbor was by far the most helpful. As difficult as it was to argue against your
own beliefs, it had helped open my eyes to many of the more prominent arguments
against my topic. Some challenges I struggled with was producing an essay that
was satisfactory to my own expectations.
By writing about a topic and proposing a solution to something I personally
deem a problem, it made me much more critical of my own paper, as I wanted to
create a bulletproof stand on the problem. Other things I struggled with was proper phrasing
of my sentences to deliver the most persuasive tone to my paper and deciding
which factual information to use to back up my claim. There were many situations in which I chose
to use a less-scholarly phrase than one I had initially written to produce a
different tone, which I hope to have been the correct decision. When it came to choosing statistics and facts
in my essay, I had a hard time making a decision on what and where to include
it. My topic of campus gun rights is a
subject that has just recently blown up, but still has significant amounts of
empirical evidence to back up my claim, making it hard to choose just a few
hard-hitting facts to include in my paper.
In the end, I definitely had a much more enjoyable time writing the
second assignment.
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