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Since the beginning of the quarter, how have you grown (or not grown) as a writer based on your contributions, your classmates' contributions, your instructors contributions, and the course at large?


I believe I grew in the way I research things, instead of googling topics and accepting just any information, I investigate a little bit on my source instead of accepting just anything. I don't think i grew in any other aspect though. I didn't have any goals or expectations other than, 101 was a little difficult for me and I'm guessing this class would be hell for me. It wasn't too bad, but it wasn't exactly easy either. I didn't think my writing skills were all that bad until my peers reviewed my paper and totally destroyed it with comments. So I was iffy on how I would accept their comments. But thanks to them and Rachel, I have more than just my view on it and I can make improvements that without them I wouldnt have been able to make otherwise.

Topic Proposal

Topic Proposal

I want to write on if its worth investing money into space research or projects for spare ships or basically anything related to NASA's goals. I believe that there is some controversy on whether it's a good idea or not to spend millions of dollars to put into NASA's projects rather than take care of the many problems that the USA are facing right now, but there are resources in space that are in abundance that could be useful as well. I am a little familiar with space related stuff, and what good can come from investments into NASA's prjects. But i know we have some other things like curing diabetes and cancer research that could use more investments. I know that there are some precious metals contained in asteroids floating around in space and it is possible to mine from them, but there are other important things out in space too, and i need to research to figure some of the many other good reasons to continue the funding. The people who would care would be the U,S, citizens, things could be getting cured or we could be in less of a recession if we wouldnt dump money into NASA and their objectyives. Its an issue right now, we are cutting back on governement spending, and to quit funding NASA may be a good way of doing that. I could go either way on this topic, either way I would enjoy doing this topic and selecting one of the two standpoints to argue from.