Research Paper Rhetorical Analysis

            Overall, I think the assignments that were done to help write this paper were effective. It really helped to have the annotated bibliography, because it forced me to read and analyze my sources well in advance. I also think it helped to have multiple drafts due – this made me sit down and write the paper without procrastinating. It was really helpful to turn in multiple drafts and get feedback on each of them, so we know specifically what we can improve on the next draft and know exactly what we should be including in the paper.

            I believe the most helpful assignment in this process was the outline for our paper. Making an outline for my paper helped me organize my points in an order that helps the flow of the paper. If I just wrote my paper without having done an outline first, I think it would have been very difficult for me to find a good organization for a paper of this length.

            I think Strunk & White was introduced at a good time in our writing process – I don’t think we would have taken the material as seriously if we didn’t already have a paper written that we could apply it to.

            Short papers, such as our proposal and audience paper, were helpful for me in analyzing what exactly I’d be writing in my paper – what my solution was, and who I should be targeting my paper at.

            If I have any suggestions, it would be with Fight Club in relation to our papers. It might be interesting for us to use some of our paper topics for Fight Club (some are more in-depth and may be difficult to find research on, but others could work). I think this would help each of us find counterarguments to our proposal that we didn’t think of ourselves, but someone who is unbiased on the topic could come up with.