Digital Portfolio Assignment Analysis

Digital Portfolio Assignment The Corner Stone Seminar course at Charter Oak State College is intended to help students develop skills in areas of critical thinking, research and digital writing. I came into this class with no real knowledge of what the course entailed until I was purchasing my books and looking at the syllabus, at this point pure anxiety set in as I have never been a person who could put her thoughts clearly in words. My only thought was this was going to be a long eight weeks. I have never put much thought into writing as it has never been something I cared to do, so I had to stay focused and learn from my peer and Professors responses from pieces I had written. I kept Google on stay by, next to my books as I attempted all my assignments. I have always found that the beginning of the paper is the hardest part for me, once I have that piece down the rest flows, so paying attention to how my peers have started in their discussions, or papers has helped me start my papers in what I had to say. I spent a lot of time on Perdue Owl, and Booth,Colomb,Williams, Craft for Research which helped me distinguish writing …show more content…
My paper is a debate on” Does Capital Punishment Deters Crime”? I have shown all research done on both the supporters and those who oppose the death penalty. I show research and articles found that support both views, and state how clearly as shown by Elhrich, Radelet, Akers and others who oppose the death penalty and the earlier finding about how it deters crime, that there is no clear scientific findings that show that the death penalty deters crime. The death penalty was earlier thought to be a deterrence to crime and was supported due to those beliefs, but now with all the research we clearly can see that it’s not a proven fact and our government should work on abolishing the Capital