What I Learned

This year, the most important thing that I learned was how to be more argumentative in my writing. In the beginning of the year my writing was almost purely factual and my arguments were weak with little evidence. Now I'd like to think that I provide a lot more evidence and my arguments are stronger and I inject my opinion more into my writing subtlety. I can attribute most of this progress to the blog posts. In most of the blog posts we have been required to post our own opinions on whatever the topic is, and in the beginning of the year we wrote op-eds. Writing these, and reading other people's op-eds helped me develop my own way of presenting my argument.