Before entering English 101, I was not sure what to expect in my first college English. Teachers from my high school would tell all of their students that in college the papers would be up to 30 pages long and that the professors would grade very hard. English is a subject that I have never been too good at so, coming into college English I was very nervous. I have struggled in the past to perceive the correct tone and organization in my writing. That was my main focus from my first paper, the synthesis essay, to my last paper, the RBAA essay. My synthesis essay, “World Plagues,” analyzed essays about plagues during two very different time periods. “World Plagues” explained the different recourses that were available and how people handled the epidemics differently during each time period. My RBAA essay, “The Issue of Sexual Assault in the Military,”
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I’ve seen the large impact that sexual assault has on the military first hand. I entered basic training only about two years after the Lackland scandal. In order to be fair with opposing views in my RBAA, I included information about what good the military was doing. I explained how the Air Force spends a large amount of time during a new enlistees training process devoted towards training in sexual assault prevention and resources that are available. I also read a lot about the issue and the multiple ways that the military was handling it. Everyone has their own point of views and I wanted to see as many as I could before I started writing my essay. My synthesis essay was different because it was more factual as oppose to argumentative. This essay used the evidence that the authors had given rather than me created my own ideas. I simply took their essays and elaborated on them to describe the differences of the time periods. A large aspect of not sounded too autocratic is doing the outside research and provided the proper
I’ve seen the large impact that sexual assault has on the military first hand. I entered basic training only about two years after the Lackland scandal. In order to be fair with opposing views in my RBAA, I included information about what good the military was doing. I explained how the Air Force spends a large amount of time during a new enlistees training process devoted towards training in sexual assault prevention and resources that are available. I also read a lot about the issue and the multiple ways that the military was handling it. Everyone has their own point of views and I wanted to see as many as I could before I started writing my essay. My synthesis essay was different because it was more factual as oppose to argumentative. This essay used the evidence that the authors had given rather than me created my own ideas. I simply took their essays and elaborated on them to describe the differences of the time periods. A large aspect of not sounded too autocratic is doing the outside research and provided the proper