Discuss the usefulness of the first or second major course assignment. Use specific examples.
The first group assignment was useful because not only did we need to work together as a group, but we needed to analyze an editorial. When analyzing the editorial we needed to find and evaluate on specific subjects- finding the major claim, determining whether it was stated or unstated/strong or valid weak or bad, show how the premises supported the claim, describe whether this was a good argument and what the difference is between an argument and a description.
There were many different jobs that needed to be done to analyze the editorial for this assignment. Analyzing the editorial was useful because it made me realize that there is so much more to an article, editorial, argument etc. other than just words put into paragraphs, or stories being told. There is much more meaning and analyzing that needs to be done to understand the true meaning of the piece of writing.
When looking for editorials for this assignment, it was a bit difficult for my group to find a good solid piece of writing that was useful for our project. There were so many articles to choose from, however, some articles had little to no useful information in it that we could benefit from for our papers. Knowing all the information we needed to analyze in the editorial of our choice, it was useful for our group to meet together when finding an editorial we all agreed on that would be beneficial for all of us to write our group parts and individual papers on.
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