Professor Beach Argument Analysis

This semester I have learned a great deal from Professor Beach, especially in regards to argumentative essays. He has taught how to get the proper evidence, facts, and to stay on point and remain focused. But most importantly he has taught me that argumentative essays must have a valid argument. Before I took Professor Beach’s course, when I saw commercials, advertisements, or the news, I would believe them without doing the proper research. Beach has taught me to see whether or not people are actually telling the truth or using fallacies. This has changed my entire perspective on not only what I hear but what we see in everyday life.
In all my essays I have demonstrated my strengths and challenges. I have acquired a sense of self motivation in doing the best of my ability to write a college level essay for …show more content…
In my second essay “Norma McCorvey” (“Outline”), I had a hard time on getting ideas together and expressing my thoughts. I felt the task organized as a group also made it harder, but once I become confident in myself I find it easier to put all the facts together so that they make sense. The results from my second essay (“Norma McCorvery…” 6) , showed I did not provide enough evidence. I feel another weakness I have is staying on topic. At times I add too many details and will become captivated on new information so much that I stray from my main topic and start to become irrelevant. I figured this out in my first summary, “News and Truth Are Not the Same Thing” (Summary), I summarized a little bit too much instead of getting the main points of the summary. I can also say that another problem I had was understanding upper level writing. In some of the readings, such as the “Hidden Persuaders” (Summary) , I had to read the article about seven times to properly understand it. But as I read it each time I better understood it and my critical thinking skills began to kick in to