Post #10 ; Extra Credit ; 388 words.

After completing the "RAP 1" I feel pretty confident in my paper. I made a 50/50 so I would say that I did well. The only problem I really had with my paper and the process of it was that I didn't have a thesis sentence so I really couldn't write a 4th and5th sentence in the first paragraph because I really had no way to lead into them. Other than that, I went into great depth of detail to explain key terms to make my paper much easier to understand and relate to. The researching area of the paper was not nearly as hard as I expected it to be. I found a lot of information in just a little bit of time. I found multiple reliable sources for every aspect of my paper that I was researching for, most of these sources also had very detailed examples that I included in my paper to give people an even better understanding of the terms. Finding the definitions and examples of the terms is really going to help me argue my side of the argument later in the paper and help me persuade others to agree with me. In the research of these specific words that dealt with my topic, I believe that I discovered more information on my topic than I had discovered in combined previous weeks before. I really thought that searching for definitions and history was going to be a waste of time and just more work on myself but it really helped me  and I think it is going to make things a whole lot easier for myself in the long run of my paper and my argument. If there was time and I could go back and change anything, I would probably use more of my own word than everyone else's words, but it was hard to use my own words when someone else worded the definition so perfectly or because of the fact that I didn't even know the definition  myself or the fact that the word even related to my topic. All in all though, I do feel like I have a pretty strong introduction to my paper and I feel like I have put myself in position to make a solid argument and end up with a successful paper.