Anna's Blog

       Throughout this semester, I feel that I have learned a lot of new ways to write my essays in classes at higher advanced levels. I learned a lot of tips that I would not have been allowed to use in high school for one reason or another, and I will be continuing to use those tips throughout college and beyond. I believe that I am more familiarized with writing strategies, and I have noticed a significant difference between the papers I wrote last year as a senior and the papers I have written this semester. I have definitely noticed a big difference just in my writing style itself, and I am happy that I have improved so much. My hope is that I will continue to develop my writing skills to higher levels throughout college, and one way I will be able to do that is by applying the helpful skills I just learned this semester. I honestly was not looking forward to this class when I learned that it was mandatory, but I am actual very happy that I had to take it. ...

       For the rational argument assignment, I chose to write about depression. My paper is about depression not being as recognized or respected as physical issues simply because it is not clearly visible. I chose this for a few different reasons. For starters, I personally suffer from depression and I felt that I could definitely connect to this topic. It has been over 3 years now since I developed depression, and during that time I have learned and experienced a lot related to the matter. For example, kids are briefly taught about depression in health classes at school, but at least my school did not go into much depth with the topic. Since we were covering other materials, we only had time to talk about extreme cases of depression. When I developed depression not long after, it was nothing like what we had learned. In fact, it was nothing like anything I had ever been taught about it in my life. I noticed a lot of things once I did develop it, though. One of thos...