Altruism Argumentative Paper

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“When a society starts depending on people overseas to hand over their hard earned money their society does not grow. “
I believe this to be my best line of prose because it is the line that I like most. This line communicates my thoughts without complications and it is also a statement that I stand by. This was perhaps the most difficult portfolio for me because I was not as passionate about the things we wrote about as I was with other previous portfolios. I did not enjoy writing about the topics we were given and this, in turn, made me less motivated to try as hard as I should have. Though the topics were interesting I did not feel enough passion to write something I could be proud of. Though my writing lacked passion I did in fact improve. …show more content…

I worked very hard on the Altruism argumentative paper. I worked hard on it because I ended up not following the instructions the first time and them hard to later fix my mistakes in another draft and then in a final draft. When fixing this mistakes I had to go back over my paper to make sure that no other mistakes were left behind. Considering the fact that this was by far the biggest paper we wrote this year, this paper turned out better than my other ones because it is the one that I worked more most on. My Jumper 2-page reaction, on the other hand, was one that did not turn out as well as I would have liked it to because it ended up being a rant. I was so fired up about the subject that I did not concisely state my ideas and overall I was very disappointed in my writing for that paper. I turned most of my work in on time save for the first paper (which I forgot to click the turn in button on) and the Altruism one (which was returned because I did not follow all the instructions). Overall I could have done a better job turning my paper in on time and I plan on doing a better job on the next portfolio. There were improvements between all the drafts that I turned in. Each draft was rewritten with added information that overall made my

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