Believing/Doubting Game

"I have done my very best work on this assignment."

     I believe I have done my best on this rational argument paper. Finding the topic to write about in this paper was easy to pick. Over the past few days, I have been revising my paper to make it sound better. I have also managed to choose better quotes that fit and argue well with the paragraphs. Spending extra time outside of the classroom with my professor helped a lot. After seeing her, I made a lot of major changes to the paper, so I am confident my paper is alot better than it was several says ago. 

    While, on the other hand, I do feel I have some doubts with this assignment. Starting off writing this paper, it was challenging. I have never wrote a rational argument paper before, so I was missing a few assignments it called for. I also was never good at inserting Etho's, Logo's, and Patho's into the paper. I do believe my paper includes several sentence structure errors. I know I need to spend more time practicing sentence structure. 


    Overall, I feel my paper is a lot better now, than where it was a few days ago. I do feel it still needs more revising to it, before Wednesday. It still needs to include more of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. These three are in the paper, but I feel not enough. I plan revising and having peer editing done before the due date. The more time I put into my paper, I feel it will become a better paper. 

Top 3..

Three things I feel I need to work more on

1. Sentence Structure
2. Weaving in Transition words
3.  Fragments

Rational Argument Paper so far..

(Creative Title)

Are we too attached to our cell phones? Most likely everyone has it in their hand or close to them. Many are scanning the internet, texting and even talking on it. It seems that nowadays it is the norm to constantly check your mobile devices. Is this norm causing addictions in our society? 

One source from Healthy Living, titled Technology Addiction: Warning Signs of A Cell Phone Addict, by Lizette Borreli. She has her BA in Media Studies from CUNY Hunter College. In her article she positions by displaying the word addiction in her title twice. By Borreli purposely placing the word twice shows an appeal to logos. Borreli is reinforcing her claim and stating the obvious in her title.  She is making it known to the public that smartphones are really something to be concerned about.

As I continue along reading Borreli’s article, I notice a term she defines right away. That someone could possibly have and be diagnosed called nomophobia. “…People who suffer from “no mobile phone phobia” (Borreli 1). She explains, today, around sixty-six percent of people suffer from this kind of phobia. Which is shocking news to hear. More than half of the population of people suffer with this phobia.