Chapter 5: Writing an Arguementitive Essay

Sometimes it seems all anybody does is argue. Arguing whether or not an opinion, political issue, picture, paper means one thing or another, is right or wrong. Although this can get very tiring there are some instances whether arguing is good. In our education if we just accept everything we are taught we are not forming own our opinions, and if everyone didn't have their own opinion we would all do the same things, wear the same clothes and have the same jobs. Arguing a point can help us see why we have that point and even understand what other people's opinions are and be more accepting of them even if we don't feel the same. When we argue something we have to know a lot about it in order to back it up, this can lead to us finding out new things and to understand where we're going and what we want to do. For instance this Career Research Project will be good in helping us determine whether or not we really want to be in our majors and what we want to do with our majors after we graduate. Our readings this week and assignments in class helped to know how we need to write our paper and which tools we can use to find research on our topic. In the book we also read explains of argumentative essays and it summarized what they did well and why. There were also examples of annotated bibliographies which helped me see how I need to do it. Even though it was explained well in class it all seemed a little overwhelming to me because I had never even heard of a prospectus and annotated bibliography, but with the readings and the more we talked about it in class I realized that it won't be so bad. I am also glad that there are citing guidelines on MLA and APA styles. The way we are supposed to cite is always changing and hard to keep up with not to mention that all of the different things we have to cite keeps growing. I love using Easybib because it does the work for me, but sometimes an internet site doesn’t know how to cite and it can make mistakes which is why having this book as a reference will really help not just in this paper but all future papers. All of these tools and examples will help me when I write not just my prospectus and annotated bibliography but when I write my argument essay based on my career.