attitude towards writing

At the begining of this semester, I had never written papers in the formats like: IMRD, classical argument, or the summary/response. I had written similar formats, but not to the extent we did in this class. I feel like now I am compfortable with different writing styles, and for sure I am more aware of giving enough credit to the author. Just like the new writing styles I learned this semester, I also learned the different ways of using citation. Overall, my writing style is the same as it was before this class...but now I have learned new ways to present an essay.

evidence and appeals

In this essay, I think I did a good job of pursuading the reader. I gave many examples of personal experience, and also a few hypothetical situations. To prove my personal stories are true for many people, I added some results from 3 research studies I found online. For my 4th source I used a magazine with a story directly related to my topic. Overall, I feel like this paper was a little hard to start but once I got going it turned out pretty good.