What is the most important thing that you took away from this reading? How, specifically, will what you learned from this reading affect your approach to writing your final research paper? Your response should be at least two sentences long.
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The most important thing I took away from this reading was conceptualizing my essay, because compared to high school, now we do most of the heavy lifting. The reading gave a few good examples of papers back then to now and it helped me understand the concept more. Approaching my research paper, instead of just listing examples, I have to open up to more arguments and using more resources, and offering more analysis. Not just that but also the structure of the essay itself the balance and proportion, it matters because it can not be too much or too little.
The most important thing I learned was the differences between high school level writing and college level writing. It seems that I have been writing the way they labeled as high school level, a strict argument with weak evidence and barely any detail. I also learned from the method they provided of elephants under the umbrella. I think I’m going to use this method to help me write my side of the argument and develop a good counter argument. And along the way, I think Im going to try to use as much detail as possible in my paper to make it more interesting.
The most important thing that I took away from this reading is the huge differences between writing a high school paper compared to writing a paper in college. I found Eickmeyer’s idea of being able to develop more than multiple ideas in a body paragraph rather than limiting to just one helpful because I found myself looking back at my high school essays after reading this chapter and I see the comparison she is making between high school and college essays. In high school, we are taught to just develop 3 main points for each body paragraph and finding evidence to support it. But in college, it is more effective to develop a main point but also organizing different ideas behind it and using a various amount of evidence and statistics to make it stronger, specifically when writing a research paper.
My biggest takeaway from the reading was the structure of a high school essay vs the structure of a college essay. The structure is the same be but the amount of detail and explanation is different. Also, your evidence becomes stronger in a college essay because now more people are looking at it and there is more competition. I learned how sub-arguments work and how the thesis makes it stronger.
The most important thing I took away from this reading based on the comparison of the high school essay to the college essay the college essay was way more in depth. In the college essay the body paragraphs was supported with specific examples.
The most important thing I took away from the reading was the comparison of a high school written essay to a college essay. The high school essay had the same content as the college essay but the college essay executed the art of making the passage sound clear so that the audience could be able to extract information out of it. What I have read will definitely contribute to my final essay because as I write it, I will be able to use not so complex vocabulary in order to push away my audience.