Writing is one of the most difficult tasks for me, I always procrastinate, I never enjoy it, and I am glad when I finish. Through these four essays I struggled and pulled all nighters but in the end I am satisfied with my work. English is easily my weakest subject; I enjoy the math and sciences much more. This class taught me to look at writing more analytically and less creatively which I appreciated. Writing essays in a step-by-step process is much better than just sitting at a blank computer screen and hoping something comes to my brain. I am an extremely wordy writer because I have trouble articulating my thoughts on paper without using conversional English or having a completely robotic and monotone structure. Through theses four papers I was able to learn more about my own my style, actually enjoy writing a paper, and learn many different techniques for researching and analyzing.
To my own surprise and delight, the prompts allowed for essays on varying topics. My favorite paper was the position paper. I myself happen to be a very opinionated person and enjoy making an argument. The paper on the BCS system was easiest to write but the hardest to find sources for. I am constantly watching ESPN and keeping updated with the sporting world and writing a paper about a controversial topic became easy with the BCS. I already knew the argument I was going to make and the concessions against it, and my rebuttal for those concessions. The hardest part was finding actual written information for my argument. College football usually contested on different sports debate shows like Around the Horn, College Football Live, or Pardon the Interruption. I think my tutor at the writing center put it when he said, “you already know what you’re going to say, you just need to find some else who said too.” The ancillary set me up perfect for this paper and I was able to write in about six hours. In this paper and in all my papers I went for the thesis attack of listing out all the main points that I would make in my body. I then tried to relate each paragraph to the thesis. I can actually say that I enjoyed writing this paper.
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