Our second paper for English 102 was an argument analysis paper. We had to look up sources about an issue that was related to our service learning work. Since I work at a medical clinic I decided to do something on the privacy of medical records.
I think that I did really well on summarizing and analyzing each of my sources. Some people tend to summarize when they are trying to analyze but I feel like my paper does a good job of separating the two. First I summarized the source then after that wrote my interpretation of the source. When I analyze papers I think to myself "what do I make of it?" It helps keep me in check.
I think the best part of my argument analysis essay is the first source that I cover. I think it is the best part because I had a lot to go from because of the source. The author of the article gave valid reasoning and evidence. He even had very good credibility compared to my second source which made analyzing it a lot easier as well as picking a side to agree with.
To make my paper better I would probably summarize a bit more for each source. At times I felt that the summaries might have not had enough detail but then again it is a summary after all. I always seem to have the problem of knowing whether or not my summary is well typed up.
I learn a lot from the papers we write in all honesty. I think the thing I learned the most, however, from writing my argument analysis paper is how to find fallacies in articles and other things. The biggest thing we went over in class was the fallacies. If I were to go back one year and read an article, I would not even notice or think about any fallacies but now when I read I tend to look for them or just notice them.
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