Reagan Braker

  Looking back from the start Card 101 till now, I realized I gained a vast amount of knowledge through the semester. In the beginning, I struggled many times with having the right MLA format and citing my sources correctly in my essays. I steadily became more confident by looking at Purdue OWL for help on my formatting. Now after writing many essays throughout the semester it has become much easier and I have developed more positive writing habits. Also, I've worked on my writing process throughout the semester. I have llearned what it takes for me to become prepared and to write my best paper. I now give myself enough time to write a paper and not procrastinate. This gives me  more time to brainstorm ideas and map out a detailed plan for my paper. So if I do get a mental block when writing my paper,  I still have plenty of time to take a break and not feel rushed. It also gives me plenty of time to make several revisions to my paper before turning it in. I have also bui...

After finishing my rational argument, I feel like I have learned many things throughout the process. When I first started I thought using academic journals would be hard, then I learned otherwise. I realized when writing this paper that finding academic journals and reading them was not that difficult. And I even ended up using more than two academic journals during my research. In addition, at the beginning of writing my academic journal, I initially was a firm believer that social media does a lot more bad than good. But through the process, I started to realize how much good social media can actually do for us. It can assist us in connecting with others, help us learn new information, and build community. Even though there are a lot of negative aspects of social media, it offers many great opportunities to. When writing my rational argument I learned more about what defines a rational argument. Since I had never wrote one before, I did not have any knowledge or details on creating a...