Dual Enrollment Analysis

Throughout the second semester of Dual Enrollment English, I was asked to write a variety of papers that were designed to strengthen my skills in rhetoric, research, grammar, and the writing process. These papers included an argumentative paper, a literary analysis paper, and a multigenre research paper. As I wrote these papers, I feel as though I was able to put my knowledge of how to write a paper to use in a variety of ways. The first paper written this semester was the argumentative paper. In this paper, I was asked to take a stand and write about either higher education, pop culture, fast food, sports, or the American dream. Part of the requirement for this paper was to thoroughly research the chosen topic so as to be able to take a side in the argument and be

I also feel I did a good job of acknowledging and responding to the other side of the argument throughout my paper. Next was the literary analysis paper on Hamlet. In this paper, I was asked to critically interpret the meaning of Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the end, I chose to write about the psychology of the characters, particularly Hamlet, as they dealt with their struggles throughout the play. Besides the book, I also found several critical pieces on Hamlet during my research that I found useful as I crafted my paper. In this paper, I believe I did a good job of describing Hamlet's actions and his reasons for doing what he did, such as when I explain why he wasted so many opportunities to kill his uncle. I did find this to be a more challenging paper, as Hamlet was a difficult story to read and understand, but I still feel as though I did a satisfactory job of analyzing Shakespeare's writing. Finally, I had to write a multigenre paper on a topic of my choosing. This was by far the most challenging paper of the