First-Year Seminar OR Humanities 2

This was my final paper for my First Year seminar. The assignment was to expand a 5 page paper (this one was on Weapons of Mass Destruction), and make it ~12 pages.

 

I am most proud of my ability to combine research and information I had, and expand on that, while adding substance, as opposed to making it wordier. I also believe that the way I formatted the paper was effective, and that my writing is concise.

The other difficult part of this assignment was finding ample sources to both backup and argue against my thesis. In approaching this, my professor said we need to represent the other side of the argument in a way that would satisfy someone who believes that side, and then give evidence to explain why our arguments were correct. To do this, we used “big, thundering footnotes,” to give credibility to both sides of the argument. Although difficult, in the end I feel as though this made the paper much stronger, and ultimately helped me craft a convincing argument.

 

Jake DellaPasqua – WMD – Final Paper