Blog Post 7

My writing has improved quite a bit this quarter. I am now a lot better at writing with an analytical focus, asking questions and making arguments about the thoughts presented, instead of just presenting them. I am also better at organizing my ideas into well-thought out paragraphs, which form a high quality, structured paper. I still need to work on expanding my ideas to make my papers longer. I have always been a very concise writer, and I need to expand on my thoughts and make them more interesting. That is the main thing I need to do when writing my ARP. Expanding my paper from 3 and a half pages to 7 or 8 will be very difficult for me. I need to further expand on my existing thoughts and maybe even find and implement one or two more secondary sources. I also need to write a solid, complex thesis statement that encapsulates the views of the entire paper, and strengthen the topic sentences in each paragraph