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During the Arguing a Position essay, I learned how to use several course competencies. For instance, I improved my use of meta cognitive knowledge; understanding the important need for details. At one point of the paper I wrote “when all cost are included into the tuition, more students will be able to afford the proper education.” However, my teacher felt as though it did not have enough detail for what I was trying to convey and changed it to “knowing all cost besides tuition, students could make better decision is they know the real ability of a school’s education” only little things changed allowed there to be greater detail shown. I now understand why it is important to understand the need for detail. Secondly the arguing a position paper …show more content…

For instance, my used of writing process knowledge during my analysis of Hemingway’s dialogue. During the beginning stages of this essay we spent the majority of class time reading through “Hills Like White Elephants” and looking for ways he used dialogue, as well as symbolism. As the paper progressed we would write a draft of one body paragraph then turn it in for our professor to read and as he would edit that draft we would work on another paragraph. This helped to make it easier to put the paper all together and edit it, it was able to help me improve on breaking my essay into chunks. The P.I. E outline was also used in this essay, this helped me to generate a general flow to the analysis. Secondly this paper helped me improve on Rhetorical Knowledge. In order to study and explain the ways Hemingway used symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants” I had to understand the authors purpose. It taught me that when I find a piece of symbolism and go to explain it you have to include the little detail of what Hemingway wanted it to symbolize such as “The crops and river represent life to the girl as well as a new beginning. The man only sees the dry side of the valley, symbolizing how he does not want the child. However, the girl wants the child and believes that this can be the start of something new. Therefore, the reason she can see the crops and

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