1) What, if anything, did you discover about your topic by writing about it? What, if anything, did you discover about writing in general?
My topic is why tuition costs is so high, and learned a lot on how tax dollars are spent and why colleges have tuition that is so high. Another interesting fact I learned is that, if the government cuts its expenditure from defence and invests that money in education college tuition could decrease more than 50%. From this assignment, I realized that making adjustments to a good draft is quite difficult to make it even better. From my essay, I learned that good essays require good transition sentences. This was a slight problem for me as I did not have a lot. The best thing I learned is that you can have fun writing if you are passionate about the topic.
2) Which reading(s) that we’ve covered so far have had the most impact on your writing? Why? How did you see it (or them) influencing your Mapping the Problem Essay?
I found the assignment on Sam Forman very useful, as he was able to write a very well written essay being a freshman. As a result his essay was like a model for me to follow and improve my own writing. This influenced my essay by me editing my structure and how I incorporate sources into my essay in an interesting way that also brings out the authoritative tone.
3) From handout to handed in, what did the writing process for your Mapping the Problem Essay look like? Was this in any way different from how you’ve written bigger projects before? If it was different, was it different a better way? How so? Are there any best practices you employed that you want to remind yourself to use again?
The writing process was quite similar to my other projects as I usually try to write a good first draft. This in turn leads to minor correction I have to do when writing my final draft. In a project in high-school I had to conduct primary research and use more primary research than secondary research in my essay. However, in this project I used secondary research. I would like to reming my self to try to always write a goof first draft. This is because it more likely you will get a higher grade than trying to come up with a quality final draft from a SFD in my opinion.
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