The Argument Project came a lot faster than I expected it to. The Argument Project was different than our previous projects because it was a project that was an extension to our last project, the Inquiry Project. The Inquiry Project was involved in my composing process for my Argument Project, by how I had to critically read and critically reflected on my group’s individual gender bias issue articles and our conducted primary research. The research from the previous project gave me a starting point for my Argument Project. The main objective of this project was to conduct an argument on the issue of gender bias based off of my own opinion and the research conducted in the Inquiry Project.
Before I was able to just jump right into producing my argument for the project, I had to learn more about argumentative writing and making claims. I furthered my learning on argumentative writing and claim making in my composing process by doing my Graphic Journal 9. The Graphic Journal 9 assignment consisted of watching three different videos that discussed argumentative writing and forming claims. Two of the videos were strictly discussing types of arguments and how they are portrayed to the public, along with the outcome of the argument. The other video was strictly talking on types of claims and when a good time to use a specific type of claim in a paper. Once I watched the videos, I was supposed to create a graphic organizer to display my observations. I used my knowledge of convention skills to come up with the idea of using a graphic organizer that separates arguments and claims into separate columns. By doing this I was able to tell exactly where my notes on arguments were and where my notes on claims were. I learned from the Graphic Journal 9 that arguments do not have to always end with having a winner and a loser, they can end with a common agreement between the two arguments.
My composing process for the Argument Project was different than the previous projects because it did not only consist of one graphic journal, but two. The Graphic Journal 10 assignment was not exactly a learning assignment, it was more like an assignment put in place for sketching out individual argument ideas. The requirements for the Graphic Journal 10 assignment was; to produce a claim on my argument and to critically reflect on the evidence I had to support my claim. I used my knowledge of convention skills to decide that I wanted to make a graphic organizer that had my claim in the center with my evidence branching off. I feel this since we conducted the Graphic Journal 10 assignment right before beginning our individual argument paper and it was based on our claim and evidence. This assignment was very helpful to me because it got me ready for the next step in my composing process. |
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Individual Argument
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The next step in my composing process was the Individual Argument. I feel that the Individual Argument assignment is the major component of my Argument Project. Going into this assignment thinking of it meaning the most, had me worried. I just thought to myself about how this argumentative paper is based on my group’s decided issue of gender bias from the Inquiry Project. This helped worry less and get ready to take on the paper. The Individual Argument assignment consisted of me writing a 1000 word paper that argued my claim about gender bias and I had to give evidence to support my claim. I began my composing process for my Individual Argument by critically reading and reflecting my article, my group’s individual articles, and the two sets of primary research conducted on the issue of gender bias during the Inquiry Project. By doing this I was able to see what type of evidence I had to work with, along with what side all of the evidence supported. I noticed that all of the evidence supported that gender bias does exist and I was about to notice how it plays a part in an individual’s entire life. From just those two observations I knew exactly want may claim was going to be. My claim was; “Does gender bias ever end? I believe that the issue of gender bias is a never ending issue in the world, because it constantly continues to show up throughout an individual’s life.” now I was ready to start writing.
Once I had my claim I thought it would be easy. I was slightly wrong. I forgot the most important part was still to come, that was critically reading everything once again and this time using my rhetorical knowledge to pull out specific quotes to support my paper. This was a little hard at first because there was so much good information I could add. Despite my challenge of being indecisive on quotes, I managed to find the best ones that support my claim. I finished my Individual Argument paper feeling very good and proud of what I produced. This assignment helped me learn how to come up with a strong claim and how to find the best support for my paper out of all of the good facts. |
Poster Argument 1.0
Going into the composing process of the Poster Argument 1.0, I was a little confused. I knew this was an assignment that was for the group to conduct, but I was not sure on how all of my group member’s arguments and mine were going to form one. The professor cleared everything up when he explained the assignment. Poster Argument 1.0 is a rough draft of the Poster Argument, it consisted of my whole group coming together to decide on one claim about the argument that we all believed. Then my group had to make a poster that stated the claim being made along with some supporting evidence to back it up. This was a lot easier than I expected it to be. This is because once we all critically reflected back on our individual claims we made in our Individual Argument paper, we noticed that the entire group all had the claim that the issue of gender bias does exist. We then had to use our knowledge of convention skills to think of a way to display our claim and evidence in only one Google Slide. We all had different opinions on how to do it but we came to a common agreement on one design. We choose three of our best supportive evidence to put on the side to back-up our claim. The Poster Argument 1.0 taught me how to collaborate respectfully with a group and how to form common ground on specific ideas in a group.
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Poster Argument 2.0
The composing process of the Poster Argument 2.0 is just simply where my group creates our final product of the Poster Argument. The Poster Argument 2.0 consisted of my group getting feedback from our fellow classmates on how our Poster Argument 1.0 looked. This is when we get feedback on what our classmates liked or disliked and what they feel we should change or add. We as a group then had to critically reflect on what we were going to change and what we were going to leave. When the time came for my group to present our Poster Argument 1.0 on the big screen, we were nervous how our fellow classmates would like it. We worried for nothing, our classmates for the most part liked everything about our poster. One of the things the class liked about our poster was how we layout and spaced our information. The class also gave my group and I some advice on how to improve our poster. The advice we were given was to crop one of our images to make it more visible and to add more information to our evidence 2 and 3 sections. We took our classmates advice into consideration and applied the advice that was given. Along our composing process of cropping the image, adding more information and adding a citation, we as a group also decided that we needed to add subtitles to the evidence boxes to state what was being described in that specific area. I enjoyed making the Poster Argument 2.0 with my group members. I feel this assignment showed me how important other’s opinions are because they might see something you look right over.
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Self-Reflection
I really enjoyed the composing process of my Argument Project! The Argument Project seemed to include less assignments then the previous projects, but I still feel it taught me just as much valuable information as the others did. This project taught me a long list of things from the different types of arguments and claims, all the way to collaboration is key. There are many different types of arguments for different situations, along with there are different types of claims for specific types of arguments. The idea of collaboration is key applies to a variety of different scenarios, one such scenario is when it comes to producing something. Other’s opinions can be helpful for your overall product or outcome, since they might catch something you did not. I still can’t believe that this is the last group project in this course. I am glad the Argument Project was our final project though because it taught me a great deal of information on argumentative writing that I had never learned about in high school.