Great Read

Dr. Kyburz shared this great article with me today during our meeting and wanted to share it with all of you. Enjoy!

Rational Argument Day 2

             After spending a day or two reading my sources and writing down my ideals about the topic on paper, I finally sat down to write my first draft. I have come to the realization that writing while powerful is the most difficult thing to do while enraged about a certain topic. This is dangerous. If you are trying to raise awareness about a subject, the way you act while writing it can make or break the receptiveness of the audience. I wrote three pages using various pieces of evidence from my three sources and was confident it was a disorganized mess. Just passion poured onto the page. After meeting with Dr. Kyburz I was thankfully able to hear how my passion was coming off to fresh eyes. She pointed out that this is what a rational argument is supposed to do. Its supposed to challenge us as a writer to figure out how to objectively put our ideas down. Ironic however that my paper is about bias in higher education and I am letting my own positions about this subject affect the effectiveness of this argument. Edit number two is well underway and feel confident in creating a great paper.